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Originally Posted by cybereye
Is hay fever a problem for a Palynologist? 
As for astronomy, I get a lot of positive feedback, and questions, when I show people the images that I've taken. Most don't realise that these things are up in the sky and I often get asked if I can see these things from my backyard.
Other questions include:
"Do you see those colours?"
"How far away is it?"
"What is it?"
"What's it made of?"
To be honest I think the school system puts very little into the teaching of Astronomy and the same can be said for Geology. I don't know why because as far as I'm concerned they're both more interesting than Biology!!
Anyway, just thought I'd jump on the soap-box. Time to hop off now!
Cheers,
Mario |
Ditto
The textbooks that have anything of geology or astronomy in them that they use is high schools are absolutely woeful. Factual errors all through them and badly written. You can tell they were written by "stock standard" science teachers and not experts in the fields, or at least teachers with experience in those fields.