we approach prof. stoll and said the the like you to read a book about what happened in the economy and he said without a doubt i need to write about housing crisis because in his opinion housing crisis is what precipitated the entire economic boom bust. >> we have travel, the economy and this book by chris mooney about science in america. tommy about that. >> chris one is a child -- science journalist, he read the republican war on signs which was a best seller, he has moved on to the idea we have a problem with scientific literacy in this country. the argument he would make is when you read the front-page of the daily paper and look at the problems this country faces, an enormous number of them are scientific problems, problems that have scientific solutions, and one of the things we are in trouble with is we don't have the capacity or infrastructure, scientists who can help solve these problems. his argument is we need to increase scientific literacy in this country, that includes some obvious things like