Five Science blogs for Non-Scientists
The reason I opened the floor to questions is because there's something I've been wanted to try for a while - reactionary blogging. Occasionally people ask me something, and I think the best way to answer would be in one separate blog post, but then I forget, or it falls to the wayside or I just convince myself no one cares. And then I want to blog
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"So I go to the science museum with the kids yesterday. They have this feature where, via a gigantic lever, a person can lift up a full-sized car. My five year-old daughter and four year-old boy think it's awesome. When they ask me how they could lift a car, I tell them that the thing attached to the car and the rope is a lever, and that while the reasons are kind of complicated, it's basically a machine that helps people move heavy things. They accept that, later talking about 'the machine that helped them lift a car.' A few minutes after the kids used it, some full-grown adults of the redneck persuasion lift the car. Overheard: 'there's gotta be some trick to this thing.' Also overheard was a sentence that had 'one of them optical illusions' in it.
"Question of the day: are we sliding back into a dark age in which science is viewed as magic -- and in some cases sorcery -- or did we never truly leave the dark ages in the first place?"
It's an uphill battle, and every little bit of knowledge helps.
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