As Anchor Seminar resumes, this is the week all first-year students and their faculty guides will be poking around the world of scientific and mathematical reasoning and standards of evidence. Making sense of evidence, understanding how visualization of data can promote deeper comprehension AND be misused, cultivating curiosity, healthy empiricism and humility are all among the learning goals for this session. Resources include Steven Johnson’s New York Times Magazine essay How Humanity Gave Itself an Extra Life and many elements of the New York Times Visualization of Data Project. Most sections will also address the question of why scientific illiteracy is so pervasive and how the other Core Habits might inform communicating about math and science in the human quest to solve problems that matter.