As an exercise, think of someone you know who had a young child die.
imagine the pain that would go on for years afterwards. Now imagine
how
pre-science societies lived: half of children born die before
10. Chanting
shamans and amulets just won't cut it. Imagine half your siblings and
half of
your children having died (usually slowly) - then imagine that most
of your
friends would also have gone through the same thing. Bummer,
huh? What's
weird about people, is we forget who our friends are - it's cool to
bash
science or the people into it. Look at science characters in
movies: they
are usually engaged in some sinister plan misusing technology, they
rarely get
the hot babes cause they are geeks. In America, our kids science
scores are
the bottom 10% of civilized countries (maybe thanks to idiot TV/"culture").
So in an effort to promote science, I've started a science email list.
Anyone
can get on it - just like the rant list, it's goes out around once
a week and
will offer a small update about some random "___ology" :
sign up for
the weekly science email list
The following are other
pro science links:
NASA
Homepage
SCIENCE.ORG
Project ASTRO
The
New York Times: Science