Seed Magazine has pub­lished the first– and second-place entries in their 2^nd annual sci­ence writing con­test.

Both entries are explic­itly not about sci­ence as fact or even sci­ence as method, but rather insist that sci­ence is about uncer­tainty and rig­orous dis­course in the con­text of phys­ical evi­dence. So I’m down with either one or both, and if chal­lenged for a man­i­festo might pro­vide a pho­to­copy of either.

1^st: Scientific Literacy and the Habit of Discourse, Thomas W. Martin.

2^nd: Camelot is Only a Model: Scientific Literacy in the 21^st Century, Steven Saus, which gets bonus points both for pumping up the pri­macy of models in thought and for ref­er­encing Python.