Essay
A new age of ignorance?
Has society's focus on pop culture turned us off our appreciation of science?
8 minute read
Peter Forbes is a science writer whose work has appeared in Aeon, The Guardian, The Independent, The Times, Scientific American, New Scientist, and New Statesman, among others. His book Dazzled and Deceived: Mimicry and Camouflage (Yale, 2009) won the 2011 Warwick Prize for Writing. His latest book, co-authored with sculptor Tom Grimsey, is Nanoscience: Giants of the Infinitesimal (Papadakis, 2014).