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Science Faculty Dean Mike Pentz at the Open University says that many people are applying for the OU's new foundation science home‐study course because they appreciate today's need for a scientific education; they are aware that the human species is facing extinction by its own acts and has only about fifty years in which to solve problems such as population, energy, use of nuclear materials, and the climatic (climactic? Ed.) effects of energy conversion. This increasing desire to study science perhaps reflects the way that sophis‐ticated technology has added to man's knowledge of the basic sciences. To take one instance, as Professor Pentz points out, the reason that the sea floor has been surveyed so minutely is that it offers potential hideouts for nuclear submarines. On parallel lines, industry's encroachment on the environment has intensified the need for a mature understanding of science, throughout both the world and society.