Time – Jeffrey Kluger
“It’s a lot easier than you think to teach the hard stuff. Keeping it fun is a good place to start. Few things make a science teacher happier than hearing a child call an idea weird. If you speak fluent child (and a good science teacher does), weird doesn’t mean what it usually means—odd, off-putting. It means interesting, mystifying and deeply, deeply cool. Finding stuff weird was how Hakeem Oluseyi realized he was interested in science as a child. He liked dinosaurs, sure, but mostly the bizarre ones. The same was true for his fascination with modern animals, and the same was true too for his interest in space. Any kid can take a shine to planets and moons, but Oluseyi was also drawn to the through-the-looking-glass physics of the cosmos, with its elastic time and its telescoping dimensions.”(more)