Science really is cool
Posted: Wednesday, February 20, 2013 by Travis Cody inI wish I had paid attention to how cool science is when I was in junior high. Too bad I didn't have the teachers that some of my favorite Science Channel personalities had.
Personalities. I shouldn't call these learned individuals personalities. They are scientists, researchers, educators.
Dr Phil Plait. Prof Michio Kaku. Prof Amy Mainzer. Prof Neil deGrasse Tyson. Dr Alex Filippenko. Dr Claudia Alexander. Dr Michelle Thaller.
They have such passion for physics and astronomy and geology and all the other subjects that make up scientific study.
Advanced math turned my brain inside out. Chemistry was way above my pay grade. I had no confidence for math or science. And I had no enthusiasm for those subjects. I did the best I could with the minimum number of credits I had to take to graduate.
I loved history and English. Give me punctuation and grammar and sentence structures. Give me dates and events to research and evaluate. Keep your periodic tables and quantum theories.
These days I spend more of my TV time with Discovery Channel and Science Channel and National Geographic Channel. I guess it's not too late for an old guy to bone up on science, as long as there are cool programs bringing me cool images to help me understand.
Help your kids get interested in science. It's really cool.
I loved Math, English and Science -but not History and definitely not biology, or at least not during the semester we had to dissect small animals. Fortunately, my Math teacher was also my biology teacher and when I told him I simply would NOT dissect anything or be in the lab with the formaldehyde smells and such, he agreed to let me skip that. Not that I gave him a choice. ;-)
Have a lovely day, Trav!