Lunch with a Laureate
kcollins | April 30, 2010Sometimes kids label science as being 'uncool' and even irrelevant. It is sometimes believed to be inaccessible and worse yet that scientists have no fun. Check out these videos on PCR, Polymerase Chain Reaction invented by one of our Lunch Lunch with a Laureates, Kary Mullis, I have to say differently. Aside from having a bit of fun in these clips, PCR has a lot of relevancy in many aspects of life...forensics, conservation, new biological developments and many more.
Leading PCR Companies like Life Technologies and Agilent will have an exhibit at the USA Science and Engineering Festvial's…
kcollins | April 9, 2010I am among those who think that science has great beauty. A scientist in his laboratory is not only a technician: he is also a child placed before natural phenomena which impress him like a fairy tale.~Marie Curie
Unfortunately sometimes in communicating the excitement of science to those that are not in science fields we somehow lose... well the excitement. To me, a new idea births a childlike curiosity and EXCITEMENT as it takes up residence in my brain and dances around. When I have a day like that, it is exhilarating.Today was one of those days where an observation turned into an idea…