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General Discussion & Feedback => Just Chat! => Topic started by: chris on 16/06/2016 22:06:05
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Evan - how do you know this stuff?
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how do you know this stuff?
A long-term interest in understanding whatever I can of creation:
- When I was a child, an older cousin stayed with us; I read all his electronics magazines.
- My cousin had copies of all the high school science textbooks on the shelf; I read many of them before I got to high school (but I lacked the mathematical tools for a quantitative understanding of physics).
- As a teenager, I enjoyed reading Isaac Asimov's non-fiction essays on science and all the back-issues of Scientific American in the school library
- This interest has been fueled by listening to podcasts in more recent years.
- Participation in this forum has caused me to look into a variety of topics in more detail.
I use my vague recollection of a topic as an index into Wikipedia, which expands and updates my general knowledge of a subject...
And I'm happy to share my little discoveries with others.
Chris, I could ask the same question of yourself - you seem to be able to answer almost any question in phone-in radio segments...
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Wow; Evan - how do you know this stuff?
Maybe he's the Evan essence of knowledge [;)]
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Evan - you are very good at translating any aspect of physics (as far as I can tell) into extremely clear, jargon-free explanations. If you are not already, you would be an amazing school teacher.
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Feel free to post your little autobiography here - what inspired you to become interested in science, how did you learn, how have you applied it, and what are you doing to inspire others?
I am sure others can learn from our personal stories.