So two mornings ago while ironing a shirt, to my surprise I heard a familiar voice coming from the radio. It was my friend and colleague KC Cole, doing one of her commentaries on science and society. This one was entitled “The Evolution Evidence”, and she talks about scientific evidence …. “How do we know what we know?”. She talks about evidence in everyday experience, and then extrapolates to evolution, the Big Bang, etc. Very well done.
(One problem though….she builds the whole thing on a riff about why you know with some considerable certainty that the person sitting next to you on the bus is not a banana. She must have lost 99% of her LA public radio audience right there…. Bus? They can’t relate to it! 
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Another nice one from before, exploring similar themes (there are several other commentaries archived) was the one called “Experience”, which talks about the hands-on science experiences you get at the Exploratorium at San Francisco, and in everyday life… It’s worth a listen too, as are probably all the others (I haven’t yet). You can find them on KPCC’s website here.
KC tells me that there’ll be more coming up in the next several weeks. She’ll even be talking about string theory, apparently.
February 3rd, 2006 at 7:43 pm
You know, I don’t have no fancy degree or nuthin’, but I’m pretty sure I don’t need a college course to tell a person from a banana. But maybe things are different in the larger cities….
February 3rd, 2006 at 7:51 pm
Yes…but *how* do you tell? What is your evidence, etc, that gets you to infer that….? That’s the point. And it’s nothing to do with college degrees….you’ve got that right! So same for the evolution vs ID discussion….. trail of evidence, inference, etc. Seems to me that you got it! Excellent.
Thanks.
-cvj