• Question: how old were you when you started liking science

    Asked by 626urak29 to Sajid, Katherine, Jayne, Duncan, anuantony on 4 Nov 2017.
    • Photo: Jayne Ede

      Jayne Ede answered on 4 Nov 2017:

      As young as I can remember. In a nonspecific way, science is about asking questions. My dad’s motto was always ‘never stop asking questions’ and I was never made to feel like I was being a pest for doing so. Science is exactly the same, except some of the questions don’t have an answer yet… that’s where it gets really interesting!

      I do remember some really good science demonstrations at school though, like my teacher making ‘gun cotton’ – which vapourises in a fireball in your hand, another pumping a load of methane into a bowl of fairy liquid, then setting it alight to demonstrate infra-red light (heat) and another burning a jelly baby using an oxidising agent to teach us about calories. I might have a problem/obsession with fire.

      We also had a pond at our school too and we were allowed to get little creatures out of it to look at under the microscope, which was terrifying. It was great!

    • Photo: Duncan McNicholl

      Duncan McNicholl answered on 4 Nov 2017:

      Exactly fifteen and five eighths.

      No, I’m kidding: I don’t remember when I started liking science, but I think it was probably when I realised what it was, and that people can work out how stuff works by doing it. I love finding out how stuff works.

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