This is amazing, they treat demos as mini-inquiries: predict → observe → explain. I’d like to spin up open, libraries for chemistry and biology with the same spirit (prediction prompts, low-cost kits, failure modes, disposal notes, and paired sims/datasets for no-lab classrooms). If you’ve got experience running Shakhashiri-style demos, PhET-like sims, or school lab safety, jump in—let’s draft the minimal spec and seed the first 10 experiments.
From the first experiment: Scientists get excited when something odd happens because that means they don’t understand it, so there’s something to be learned!
This is the sentence scientists should be repeating over and over again.
In the years I was an active member of the skeptics organization, the first argument provided by the astrologists, homeopaths, telepaths etc. was "you do not have an open mind and cannot get beyond your science". To what I replied that if someone shows me something that cannot be explained by science, I will immediately switch to that in my PhD because, you know, Nobel prize. 30 years later and without a Nobel prize, here I am still waiting :)
Scientists would go wild if there was something that big nit explained by science (I mean that there are plenty of things we do not know for many reasons, but macroscopic events wild be insane to witness. The closest I can think of was cold fusion.)
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In the years I was an active member of the skeptics organization, the first argument provided by the astrologists, homeopaths, telepaths etc. was "you do not have an open mind and cannot get beyond your science". To what I replied that if someone shows me something that cannot be explained by science, I will immediately switch to that in my PhD because, you know, Nobel prize. 30 years later and without a Nobel prize, here I am still waiting :)
Scientists would go wild if there was something that big nit explained by science (I mean that there are plenty of things we do not know for many reasons, but macroscopic events wild be insane to witness. The closest I can think of was cold fusion.)