Internet has bought something world has never seen before - Ambassadors of Science. Carl Zimmer, Ed Young et al write inspiring, informative and educational blogs. World would become a better place if only teens start devouring them with their insatiable appetite. In matter of time, they would get hooked to mother of all dopamine drives, the epistemological drive. The question is how can parents, teachers and peer pressure make this happen?
I think, the answer is simple - parents should start reading them (make it part of family conversation), daily blog reading assignments from teachers and eventually society will slowly make it "cool" to build a constructive peer pressure. Utopian? may be... but reality is scary since there will be limited number of openings even to flip burgers this century (and not everyone can become ballet dancers or sport-stars, duh!!).
MWV39 - Carl Zimmer: Newspapers, Blogs, and Other Vectors: Infecting Minds with Science in the Age of New Media from microbeworld on Vimeo.
"Nothing is more humbling than to look with a strong magnifying glass at an insect so tiny that the naked eye sees only the barest speck and to discover that nevertheless it is sculpted and articulated and striped with the same care and imagination as a zebra. Apparently it does not occur to nature whether or not a creature is within our range of vision, and the suspicion arises that even the zebra was not designed for our benefit."
-Rudolf Arnheim, psychologist and author (1904-2007)
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