Westfield State
This is the number of credits needed to graduate from Westfield State.
What is 120?
The famous physicist in the video shown in-class.
Who is Richard Feynman?
This is percentage that each test counts for the final grade.
What is 20 percent?
The term used for a problem with a clear an testable solution.
What is a tame problem?
What percentage of scientists have concluded that human-caused climate change is happening?
97 percent.
This is the number of core classes that you need to take to graduate from Westfield State?
What is depends on double-dips?
The top scientific issue for the President of the USA today.
What is COVID-19?
The PLATO site used in this class.
The term used for a problem without a clear definition of success.
What is a wicked problem?
The country is responsible for the largest carbon emissions today.
What is China?
The minimum GPA needed to graduate from Westfield State is this GPA.
What is 2.0?
The two 'limits' of the sustainability donut are a) the environmental ceiling and b) _________.
What is the social foundation?
Professor Braun's office hours are: ____________.
MWF 15:00-16:00 or anytime.
The 100 percent rational First Officer of the Starship Enterprise?
Who is Mr. Spock?
The ozone hole is one of the main causes of global warming.
What is No!
The number of credits you need to take each semester to graduate in 4 years.
15
The simplest definition for science.
Science is evidence-based reasoning.
A landscape feature that Prof. Braun studies as part of his research.
What is a glacier?
The term used for the highest order of understanding in science.
What is a theory?
The observed increase in greenhouse gases in this century is due to ________.
What are humans?
This is the amount of hours of work needed for a 3-credit internship.
What is 135 hours?
The method proposed in-class to test whether or not something is a science.
CONPTT
The 'contract' that defines our mutual responsibilities in this class.
What is the syllabus?
Science is easy. _____ is complicated.
What is Earth?
Climate change is a _________ problem.
What is wicked?