Experience Experiments
You Call That Science?
Prove it
When I was a kid, I watched science experiments on a TV show called Mr. Wizard. Now that I think about it, Mr. Wizard was a strange name for a science guy. I’m pretty sure his real name wasn’t Gandalf.
Science didn’t have a lot of appeal for me. I hated the smell of formaldehyde in my high-school biology class. Fake science was sort of good for explaining some things in super-hero comics. The Fantastic Four had uniforms made of “unstable molecules” so they could stretch, turn invisible, or not burst into flames. Even the science-fiction I read leaned more toward the conjectural than the technical. I liked Samuel Delaney better than Arthur C. Clarke. Of course, I thought The Twilight Zone was terrific…high class story telling on a small budget. As for Star Trek, explaining my reaction to that will have wait for my “Space” posting.
Suggested listening: Thomas Dolby’s “She Blinded Me with Science” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V83JR2IoI8k
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