Tremendous comments in this thread that exemplify something I enjoy about HN, generative consumption. That's a fancy way of saying certain posts and comments get my mental wheels spinning, which I can transfer to whatever else I'm doing for the day.
Five minutes here for the blog, your comments, this reply, then I'm out and likely more productive than I was 6 minutes ago.
Re:I Should Have Loved Biology
by thimkerbell on Monday April 22, 2024 @05:00PM
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What would be the in-person equivalent (or pale approximation) of HN, for adults out of school?
Seeing the remains of an aircraft fuselage, or what a burned out diesel locomotive looks like -- and in the case of the train, smells like; it was being repaired -- really drives the point home.
A couple more slides on case studies and how they happened -- shout out of Admiral Cloudberg for doing a great job with that stuff; use their articles a lot -- and it's easy to convince people. Make it visceral, and they sure as hell will remember.
Presumably it's the same with a lot of science education as well. Physics and math for the sake of math is just rote memorization, but make them calculate rocket trajectories, then build a few model rockets and shoot them off, and those kids will be way more engaged. Like, I got really into biology when I started making basement hooch in college...