a note about myself...
Sometimes I pretend I'm still a kid. But, not in a creepy-fetish way, and not in a psychotic, or a can't-grow-up way. I am capable of being a mature adult, paying my bills, taking responsibility, being boring...
What I mean is, sometimes I do those things that, when I was a kid, I promised myself I would not get too old and crabby to do. Sometimes I climb trees; sometimes I play with crabs. Sometimes, I blow bubbles in my chocolate milk.
Which is probably why I like working with children so much. It turns out that five-year-old girls don't see a problem with wearing an astronaut costume every day of the week, that three-year-old boys are a-okay with everything being about dinosaurs. It just so happens, that it's ok to use an ostrich's bones to build a 6-legged, saber-tooth tiger. It's ok to enjoy making colorful coffee-filter butterflies. It's ok to not know where your finger prints are and, IT IS O-K TO ASK QUESTIONS.
... followed by a point of clarification:
Sometimes I pretend I'm still a kid. But, not in a creepy-fetish way, and not in a psychotic, or a can't-grow-up way. I am capable of being a mature adult, paying my bills, taking responsibility, being boring...
What I mean is, sometimes I do those things that, when I was a kid, I promised myself I would not get too old and crabby to do. Sometimes I climb trees; sometimes I play with crabs. Sometimes, I blow bubbles in my chocolate milk.
Which is probably why I like working with children so much. It turns out that five-year-old girls don't see a problem with wearing an astronaut costume every day of the week, that three-year-old boys are a-okay with everything being about dinosaurs. It just so happens, that it's ok to use an ostrich's bones to build a 6-legged, saber-tooth tiger. It's ok to enjoy making colorful coffee-filter butterflies. It's ok to not know where your finger prints are and, IT IS O-K TO ASK QUESTIONS.
... followed by a point of clarification:
So, when I talk about the disconnect between scientific language and the general public, I'm not trying to point out that people don't know about science. And, I don't want you to think of this as another "for dummies" info source.
What I would like to point out here, is that science is not disconnected from every day life, and that there is a way of talking about it that reflects that, that doesn't dangle it in front of you at arms length. And that this is the most pertinent way to talk about it.
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