These are the science concepts you need to know to understand political life in 2017

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. These are the science concepts you need to know to understand political life in 2017
Akshat Rathi, et.al., Quartz, 2017/02/20

These concepts don't all relate to education, and their importance most certainly isn't limited to political life, but it's a good list and educators should be aware of all of them. Here's the one-minute version:

• Scepticism - "a willingness to evenly assess the scientific evidence available."
• Iatrogenesis - illness “brought forth by the healer," like the opioid epidemic
• Social cost of carbon - the damage each ton of CO2 emission costs society
• Clean coal - expensive, but "captures the carbon dioxide and buries it"
• Gene drives - increase a gene's chance of being inherited
• CRISPR - being widely used to manipulate DNA with extraordinary precision
• NgAgo - new tech which might manipulate DNA with even greater precision
• Confrmation bias - the tendency to select information that supports our existing beliefs
• IPFS - makes copies of everything instead of relying on links
• PFOA - unregulated cancer agent turning up in drinking water
• Neonicotinoids - the pesticide that caused widespread bee colony collapse
• SETI - search for extra-terrestrial intelligence using powerful new tools

Now you's caught up. More...