Science Literacy Week

Scientific literacy is about how you think, about questioning everything, about being skeptical, and about thinking critically. In this talk, Andrew Zwicker shares the importance of being scientifically literate. He explains the what, why, and how of scientific literacy, including science’s relation to participation in the democratic process.

In the first session of the IEJ Project’s Indigenous Climate Justice Series, principal investigator Dr. Deborah McGregor presented her research on the interactions between decolonization and climate change as informed by Indigenous knowledge, law and ethics.

The Codebreaker reveals the fascinating story of Elizebeth Smith Friedman, the groundbreaking cryptanalyst whose painstaking work to decode thousands of messages for the U.S. government would send infamous gangsters to prison in the 1930s and bring down a massive, near-invisible Nazi spy ring in WWII.

A riveting look at the now-defunct company Theranos and its enigmatic founder and CEO Elizabeth Holmes, whose ambition to revolutionize blood testing through biotechnology spawned one of the biggest frauds in Silicon Valley.