{"id":1608,"date":"2009-02-24T05:09:39","date_gmt":"2009-02-24T10:09:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=1608"},"modified":"2009-02-24T05:09:39","modified_gmt":"2009-02-24T10:09:39","slug":"why-is-science-important","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/1608","title":{"rendered":"Why is Science Important?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/whyscience.co.uk\/\">Why is Science Important?<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I\u2019ve started this film and blog project in which I want to ask the question \u201cwhy is science important?\u201d to people who feel the importance of science so deeply that they have dedicated their lives to it \u2014 working scientists, science writers and, of course, science teachers. I\u2019m making a documentary, funded by The Wellcome Trust, and running this \u201ccollective blog\u201d as I work on the film. Bits from the blog will appear in the film and bits of the film will appear on the blog. The idea is that the two will inform and enrich each other.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m hoping that this project will help me arrive at an answer to this question; an answer that speaks to readers of this blog, as well as my students, and convinces them that science is important. Furthermore, I want this project to reach people who don\u2019t think science is important and convince them otherwise. I want it to demonstrate that science is absolutely crucial to the future wellbeing of our world, that its contribution to culture is as significant as that of music, art or literature and, most important of all, that a sound appreciation of science is vital to realising your potential as a human being. I want this project to make it far, far easier for any science teacher to be able to answer that inevitable question, \u2018what\u2019s the point of all this?\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/phyzblog.blogspot.com\/2009\/02\/interrogative-websites.html\">via<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why is Science Important? I\u2019ve started this film and blog project in which I want to ask the question \u201cwhy is science important?\u201d to people who feel the importance of science so deeply that they have dedicated their lives to &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/1608\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1608\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}