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Originally Posted by Peter Ward
....begging the question, how does one lift the national science IQ ?
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....... by avoiding science elitism and making the average person feel included. There have been too few people involved in popularising science, such as Julius Sumner Miller and his modern day equivalent Dr Karl.
As a child I enjoyed watching the eccentric Sumner Miller pose questions to a panel of school kids and walk them (and I) through scientific discoveries. The enthusiasm of the presenter is key to getting kids interested. See how exciting the Bernoulli principle can be:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCcZyW-6-5o