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Re:US kids’ doodles of scientists reveal changing gender ste... by Mononokay on Tuesday March 20, 2018 @11:30PM (#16635160)
Most of the giant media-loved scientists have died at this point - Sagan, Feynman, Salk, Pavlov, etc, and are finally starting to drop out of public-rememberance.

The 20th century had a lot of movies featuring (fictional) scientists, like Dr. Strangelove and Men in Black, too.

They were represented quite a bit.

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Re:US kids’ doodles of scientists reveal changing gender ste... by Consultant32452 on Wednesday March 21, 2018 @12:55AM (#16635581)
Neil deGrasse Tyson and Bill Nye are very big in pop culture. My daughter is 10 and came home singing "Bill Bill Bill Bill, Bill Nye the Science Guy" because her school still plays old episodes. NdT had a prime time series on a major network. I'm not gonna suggest they're "as big" as Sagan or Feynman was, but they're really big.
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