Science You Need

Yes, we realize you probably are not a science geek, but even those of you choose to read a humanities weblog need a modicum of science in order to grok culture. Here are two cool ways to get it:

• Wired Science is a new television venture between Wired magazine and PBS. Watch the first episode on its website or visit online features such as Exploded View, Vaporware, or Geek Beat. This is edgy science.
• Science Café, from The University of California, San Francisco, is a "weekly conversation about the culture, conduct & community of science." Listen to podcasts on aging, stopping Parkinson's, science literacy, reinventing biology, and other topics ripped from the headlines of science .