Former Educator Releases Ground-Breaking New Book That Reveals Flaws in K-12 Textbooks

     

    CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., Dec. 22, 2010 — Educator and science editor David Rudel is getting to the root of what is lacking in the modern school learning environment.
    Rudel’s new, highly anticipated Volume 1 of “Science Myths Unmasked: Exposing Misconceptions and Counterfeits Forge…

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    Astronomer Geoff Marcy, Earth’s Premier Planet Hunter, Wins Carl Sagan Prize

     

    STANFORD and BERKELEY, Calif., Oct. 22, 2009 — Geoff Marcy, Earth’s foremost discoverer of planets outside our solar system, has won the 2009 Carl Sagan Prize for Science Popularization. The award recognizes Marcy’s “exceptional contributions to the public understandin…

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