Dawn Levy of the Stanford University News Service files this report on the need for Civic Scientists . Denise Hall provides some advice for a reader in Too Good to Be True . Other of Denise's columns can be found in the Health section. In his latest Spinocracy feature, Donavan critiques National Missile Defense in Spinning National Missile Defense . This essay is also February's feature Editorial .
Science begins with a combination of wonder and skepticism.
Sagan describes how his early instruction in math and science was wonderless. I have had the same experience. Very few of my teachers and professors have bothered with trying to convey the wonderful. They have been only concerned with expounding the facts. Sagan opens his book with a story about an average guy who had no formal training in science.