Falling for Science: Objects in Mind Turkle Sherry
Falling for Science: Objects in Mind Turkle Sherry Passion for objects and love for science: scientists and students reflect on how objects fired their scientific imaginations. In it, we learn how a…
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Falling for Science: Objects in Mind Turkle Sherry
Passion for objects and love for science: scientists and students reflect on how objects fired their scientific imaginations. In it, we learn how a love for science can start with a love for an object--a microscope, a modem, a mud pie, a pair of dice, a fishing rod. "This is a book about science, technology, and love," writes Sherry Turkle.
In this collection, distinguished scientists, engineers, and designers as well as twenty-five years of MIT students describe how objects encountered in childhood became part of the fabric of their scientific selves. Objects fire imagination and set young people on a path to a career in science. In two major essays that frame the collection, Turkle tells a story of inspiration and connection through objects that is often neglected in standard science education and in our preoccupation with the virtual.
The senior scientists' essays trace the
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