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Posted by: steve
Date: 05/28/2008 06:32AM
"What if we could replace the public fervor for mindless sports with a similar passion for science... salaries included. So many more kids would be reading textbooks than handling a ball, and we'd be so much further ahead in scientific progress." ...
Interesting but I would point out that the passion for sports is at least to a certain extent a passion for the drama and unpredictability of live competition, which isn't replicated in lots of other places in life, including the patient and dogged search for truth in a lab. And a passion for sports isn't necessarily exclusive of a passion for science. I just read this morning that one of the interviews that the next pilot of the space shuttle will be doing will be with an ESPN sports show of which he is a fan....
Interesting but I would point out that the passion for sports is at least to a certain extent a passion for the drama and unpredictability of live competition, which isn't replicated in lots of other places in life, including the patient and dogged search for truth in a lab. And a passion for sports isn't necessarily exclusive of a passion for science. I just read this morning that one of the interviews that the next pilot of the space shuttle will be doing will be with an ESPN sports show of which he is a fan....
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