February 17, 2010,
4:00pm - 5:00pm
Location:
MIT 54-915
Speaker: Chris Mooney is a 2009-2010 Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT, and Senior Correspondent, The American Prospect Magazine. He is the author of three books including the recently published Unscientific America: How Scientific Illiteracy Threatens Our Future, co-authored by Sheril Kirshenbaum; also The Republican War on Science, as well as Storm World: Hurricanes, Politics, and the Battle Over Global Warming. Mooney is a blogger at blogs.discovermagazine.com/intersection and has written extensively about science and politics, climate change and evolution, among other topics.