Comments on: Margaret Wertheim and hyperbolic coral http://blog.sciencegeekgirl.com/2007/05/19/margaret-wertheim-and-hyperbolic-coral/ science education, communication, and myths Thu, 11 Mar 2010 21:58:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: sciencegeekgirl » How to make hyperbolic coral http://blog.sciencegeekgirl.com/2007/05/19/margaret-wertheim-and-hyperbolic-coral/comment-page-1/#comment-1001 sciencegeekgirl » How to make hyperbolic coral Sun, 08 Mar 2009 00:08:51 +0000 http://sciencegeekgirl.com/2007/05/19/margaret-wertheim-and-hyperbolic-coral/#comment-1001 [...] is a follow-up to my original post on Margaret Wertheim and her hyperbolic coral [...] [...] is a follow-up to my original post on Margaret Wertheim and her hyperbolic coral [...]

]]> By: How to make hyperbolic coral « Sciencegeekgirl http://blog.sciencegeekgirl.com/2007/05/19/margaret-wertheim-and-hyperbolic-coral/comment-page-1/#comment-15 How to make hyperbolic coral « Sciencegeekgirl Fri, 20 Jun 2008 15:42:20 +0000 http://sciencegeekgirl.com/2007/05/19/margaret-wertheim-and-hyperbolic-coral/#comment-15 [...] under communicating science, science activities | Tags: how-to |   This is a follow-up to my original post on Margaret Wertheim and her hyperbolic coral [...] [...] under communicating science, science activities | Tags: how-to |   This is a follow-up to my original post on Margaret Wertheim and her hyperbolic coral [...]

]]> By: pann http://blog.sciencegeekgirl.com/2007/05/19/margaret-wertheim-and-hyperbolic-coral/comment-page-1/#comment-14 pann Thu, 24 May 2007 01:03:04 +0000 http://sciencegeekgirl.com/2007/05/19/margaret-wertheim-and-hyperbolic-coral/#comment-14 That's a really inspired thought: bringing science to someone besides the elite. Kids (myself included, as I recall) often question what the value of math or of science is to life, and ask why bother studying it if they are "never going to use it." If science journalists aren't using their science backgrounds to examine critically the science that they report on, who will? That’s a really inspired thought: bringing science to someone besides the elite.

Kids (myself included, as I recall) often question what the value of math or of science is to life, and ask why bother studying it if they are “never going to use it.”

If science journalists aren’t using their science backgrounds to examine critically the science that they report on, who will?

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