Bonnie Bassler: Why American kids Are Behind in Science

http://bit.ly/jSlxQ8 - Bassler explains the governmental, social, and cultural factors which turn children off to science.

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[RantKid]

Bonnie Bassler FTW.

When are athletes going to make the world a better place. Never. Our country has gotten so stupid over the decades.

[funnyguise]

she's cool.

[yoyoyoy500]

Even though their's things like the biotech manipulation,multiverses & chemical pollution that conflict's with ppl's convictions that's not the reason y IMO ppl r turned off by sci.Sci was more exciting 2 common culture in the 50's b/c o'flashy stuff like space travel.Nowadays it's stuff like nanotech & genes which is a bit harder 2 make appealing.Also 1 CRITICAL thing that MUST get in2 kids going in2 sci's in that math is sci's VERY important corollary brother.IMO that's what stops some ppl.

[SicSemperTyrrannus]

i can't read...

[correctionguy]

@manwithouthat44 The point being that there are many, many scientists who have contributed amazing discoveries but aren't even recognised by the scientific community, let alone the general public.

[correctionguy]

A perfect example are the deaths of Steve Jobs and Dennis Ritchie in the media. Don't get me wrong, from what I've heard, Jobs was a charitable man behind the scenes, but he didn't contribute anything near as important as Ritchie, yet he was the one hailed as a hero.

[ImperialLegionTV]

Blame public schools. The main thing I saw through my recent school career is teachers that choose to show off or over complicate things instead of attack them step by step and reasoning to students HOW and WHY it needed to be done the way it was.

[leakeg]

@manwithouthat44 he's hardly well known by the general public. Your average joe isn't going to recognise him walking down the street.

[manwithouthat44]

@leakeg well sagan and hawking less all the others are primarily 21st century. how bout brian cox.

[leakeg]

@manwithouthat44 modern?! how are any of those guys considered modern?!

[manwithouthat44]

well there are modern science heros. how bout carl sagan, dawkins, hawking and tyson, I think with the internet people are more interested in science, esp that evolution vs religion shit. thats all over the place.

[u2good2b4gotn]

As a poor kid, I was interested in astromony (space, planets, etc), but my interests tapered off because there seemed to be no future in it financially (stupid to say, right). Neither did design, my other interest; yet I chose to be a designer because a teacher opened up my mind to the possibility of a stable career in it. That was the only real difference, no teacher hyped (science) up. Many poor blacks in college had business majors simply because they figured, well, businesses make money, so.