[meteorite-list] Re: Kitchen Comet Cows

From: Tracy Latimer <tracyl_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:02:25 2004
Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.93.1020303214856.24099A-100000_at_netra.lib.state.hi.us>

What is your collective beef with Bill Nye the Science Guy? He was the
fellow who had the informative program illustrating the relative
distances and sizes of the Solar System. He started with a basketball as
the Sun in one end of a football stadium; Mercury was at about the 50 yard
line, by the time he got to Mars, he was on a bicycle...

Fun and informative is IN. If someone learns something, whether in a
chemistry class with a teacher making flash paper (as I remember from Mr.
Barrow and 7th grade) or from a comic book version of the Iliad, I think
it's a good thing. As long as the teaching method doesn't hurt anyone or
anything, if it causes someone to learn, it's successful. Does anyone
here who doesn't regularly use Avagadro's Number remember it or its
significance without a catchy jingle learned in Chem class?

Tracy Latimer
Received on Mon 04 Mar 2002 03:02:34 AM PST