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Date Posted: 22:34:19 11/28/11 Mon
Author: BB
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Re: Dry and wrinkly
In reply to: BB 's message, "Dry and wrinkly" on 00:17:13 11/17/11 Thu

The local astronomy society did a survey of its members and found that the majority became enthused about the subject between the ages of eight and twelve. This implies that if you can't excite youngsters about astronomy (and perhaps science in general) by the age of twelve then they give up on it. Most of them turn twelve during their first year at secondary school, so that year is incredibly important.

My first-year science teacher was a good guy. Nerdy but tough and with a good sense of humour. I was already drawn towards science. My dad (who left school at fourteen) showed me the fossil seashells that littered the Bathgate hills and explained that the area had been under the sea millions of years ago. That blew my mind, to use an appropriate 1960s phrase.

Did you ever dissect anything at school? A cow's eyeball or heart perhaps? My most enduring memory is of one of my classmates cutting a surprisingly large testicle from a rat (reeking of formaldehyde) and sneakily dropping it into somebody's school bag. I don't know what the reaction was when it was discovered, possibly at home.

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