after the bell

The public radio show “Speaking of Faith” has devoted two episodes to Einsteins spiritual and ethical views. The podcasts as well as a significant collection of related resources can be found in the SOF Archive.

In the ethics episode, I was especially interested in S. James Gate’s discussion of Einstein’s concerns for the apparent discrepancy between our stated value of equality and our country’s treatment of African Americans. Gates, a theoretical physicist at the University of Maryland, also discusses the relation between science and other creative endeavors such as the arts. I thought his comments about the role of diversity in science were illuminating, and important for science teachers to communicate to their students.