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The Boy Scout swimming requirements, especially for the swimming merit badge, include how to use clothes to make floating devices — something I always found fun to do.

Back to topic: Yes, science should be fun. How to do it? Your link to the WherethehellisMatt video offers some interesting possibilities — we see Matt dancing in shallow water, on a rock stuck in a crevice 1000 feet above certain death, on sand dunes, on ice, and on several other surfaces (or below them — Palau!) that should produce hundreds of questions about why the place is cool, and how difficult is it to dance there, etc., etc.

People are, naturally, scientists. We need to stop beating it out of kids first, before we figure out how to improve it in them.

Isn’t that funny, we have to remind ourselves to be skeptical, even of our skeptic science “heroes?” I would love to have dinner with Dawkins and a few others. I have some questions for them.

I think Dawkins is great. Had the pleasure of meeting him when he stopped through town to read and sign “The Ancestor’s Tale.” Not to digress into something akin to hero-worship, but it was nice to be able to tell him that his work was one of the 3-4 things I think showed me the road to atheism.

P.S. Thanks for the link.

It might be interesting to go around to moms groups and give lectures or training on science activities to do with their kids.

I’ll be waiting for a report, either on your own blog or in a comment on this one! Email me if you report it on your own blog.

Are you going allow fellow bloggers a sneak peak?

If one picks up almost any daily newspaper, seldom does a day go by that there aren’t at least four or five articles in the fist few pages that address topics that require some insight into a scientific subject such as stem cell research, global warming, pharmaceuticals, pollution, fuel efficient transportation, new communication and computing technology developments, etc., etc. How does the average citizen keep up with this stuff?

At the same time, there is a growing uneasy feeling about the whole scientific community that suggests that maybe the scientist might not have an adequate social conscience. Didn’t they come up with atom bombs and nuclear power plants that leave waste that is dangerous for millennia? Is there a risk they will try to clone humans? Is there a risk they will try to engineer some foods to make more profit at some risk of harming people that eat them? These types of questions are serious and emotionally charged so they stick in the public’s mind.

What can a science promoting- atheist/agnostic do about such lack of public interest and negative perception issues? My project is a “Science Literacy for Adults” presentation. My goal is to present this in about two hours and to test it I plan to take advantage of an almost captive audience. Mobile home trailer parks are full of bored people that love to have someone come and present almost anything in the recreation center and that is my target.

I am finding it a challenging task because there are so many paths such a presentation can follow. I purchased a “Joy of Science” lecture series that includes no less than 60 lectures on 30 CD’s to get some ideas. Surprisingly I found it to be of little help. It tends to grind through many science principles as though to science students rather than conveying the nature of scientific history and philosophy of critical thinking and excitement of the modern quests that people read about daily. If I can debug the presentation, hold the interest of the audience for two hours and simultaneously light a little spark of understanding, I will feel quite successful.