. >> so we have trouble, the economy and in this book by chris mooney about science in america. >> chris mooney is a science journalist and wrote a book a couple years ago called bore on science and now he's moved to the idea if we have a problem with literacy in this country i think the argument he was make is if you read the front page of a big daily paper and look at the problems the country faces an enormous number our scientific problems or i should say problems that hot scientific solutions and one of the things we are struggling with is we don't have the capacity or infrastructure to build scientists who can help solve these problems so this is an argument saying that we need to increase the scientific literacy in this country and that includes obvious things like education system but also means scientists have to do a better job of talking about scientific solutions and accessible terms for the public. >> you mentioned this is the convention people talk about their fall books being the biggest season for the book industry when you would release your largest titles. >> that's righ

. >> so we have travel, the economy, and in this book by chris mooney about science america. >> he wrote a book couple of years ago called the war on science which was a bestseller. now he's moved to the idea we problem of scientific literacy in this country and i think the argument he was making that when you read the front page of, you know, a daily paper and look at the problems the country faces, an enormous number of them are scientific problems or i should say problems at have scientific solutions and one of the things we are struggling with in the country is we don't have the capacity or infrastructure to build scientists who can help solve these problems. so this is an argument saying that we need to increase the scientific literacy in this country and that includes obvious things like a bridge education system but also means scientists have to do a better job of talking about scientific solutions and accessible terms for the public. >> now dimension that this is the convention where people come out and talk about their fall books, fall being the biggest season from the industry