few days ago I read in Hominids this cartoon, funny and full of reason
Which got me thinking (absurdly, of course) until you reach a conclusion: there is no need . I mean, you do not tell the kids that someday could be mounted on a T. rex to come to them wanting to pursue science. Come on, that is fine, as is well modeled scientists put tape players more or less sensitive to the public (remember the Dr. Brown and his DeLorean able to travel back in time , or young Peter Parker of comic able to make their own lanzarredes), but examples of real science, pure and simple, can themselves be very bright and funky without the need to exaggerate. I will proceed to list a number of scientific words in my childhood I have been a singular flight of fancy, attracted both by its sound as the implications for a child's mind can have. Are terms, as I say, that in my daily work as normal operation and if they had told me I'd be excited enough kid:
- cryopreservation in liquid nitrogen (each Once you thaw cells, I feel a little T800 )
- X-ray Crystallography
- Tagging proteins with radioisotopes (includes handling Geiger counter)
- Silencing gene expression
- directed mutagenesis
- mass spectrometry
and could put many more, of course, things like X-rays (or gamma recall the origin of Hulk , no less) are common in film and comics of times past and present. The idea I want to convey is that sometimes I feel like a science fiction movie when I say "I will reveal the outcome of two-dimensional electrophoresis," "reached by the mass spectrometer samples?" or when they ask what you're doing, say "well look, I'm analyzing the dimerization of this protein by non-denaturing gel electrophoresis, to determine whether the mutations found in patients are due to a loss of function, inability to interact with their substrates or simply to a hyperactivation of the path of the ubiquitin-proteasome. It seems that at any moment is going to blow a tube and some of those present at the laboratory will become a monstrous, or they will call the Pentagon to ask us to use our technology to enhance an experimental Nanosuit (which of course will require us to test Him ourselves, forcing us to fight crime). Imaginaréis I guess that has been working on this, secretly hoping that some of these things happen, and nothing. The superheroes still knocking on my door. But walking is not fun ...
The illustrious Dr. Emmet Brown. Without doubt, an example to follow.
Young bookworm Peter Parker is designed he alone a chemical mixture and a device to release it.
Powers aside, what a motivation to learn science!
Of course, science is not just molecular biology (jo, if even the name "molecular biology" cool, do not tell me no), and therefore the above in this (absurd) reflection is perfectly applicable other classic areas of biology, medicine, paleontology, chemistry, physics (just thinking about quantum theory, gravitons, particle accelerators ... and I shudder), and a long etc.. For I asked this via twitter some input and as a result I also got this other list Molona:
- elutriator
- strobe lamp
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flow cytometer - Transilluminator
- Multipole magnetic / electric
- Spectral Lamp
- GC
- Ultraturrax
- Nanofiltration,
- Supercritical Fluid
- Accelerated Solvent
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metastable states - creation and annihilation operators
Pass to tie all these concepts, some of them very mystical to me (what the creation and annihilation operators has left me heartbroken, really). Id like dwarfs googling and you will enjoy (thanks to fellow @ EoKr , @ kunzahe , @ _Argi_ , @ Noxbru and @ eliatron by these fascinating contributions).
I remind you that you can use comments to include other terms from different fields of knowledge, which only by their sound, strangeness, and Images that trigger on a malleable young mind can make itself exciting to engage in something as seemingly Peñaza and spend all day driving tiny tubes containing clear fluid.
And but for nothing, all working for the markets, that certainly there will always be curro.
But not so cool, that's for sure.
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