{"id":3134,"date":"2009-07-18T05:13:46","date_gmt":"2009-07-18T10:13:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=3134"},"modified":"2009-07-18T05:13:46","modified_gmt":"2009-07-18T10:13:46","slug":"score","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/3134","title":{"rendered":"Score!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the underlying themes that keep popping up in the &#8220;why we&#8217;re doing poorly at science&#8221; discussions is a dearth of publicly recognizable scientists.  Along the lines of Tom Lehrer&#8217;s insistence that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.casualhacker.net\/tom.lehrer\/evening.html#oedipus\">all movies need a snappy title tune to make them popular<\/a>,  I have the answer to this:  trading cards.  We need kids to be collecting and trading these cards, saying &#8220;need, it, need it, got it&#8221; as they compare their collections with the other kids.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Rookie&#8221; cards would depict a scientist during their postdoc days, summarizing the past accomplishments of grad school.  Then every couple of years a new card would come out, listing important papers, accomplishments and research statistics (Prof Jones had a <em>Nature<\/em> article and two articles in <em>Really Important Chemistry Journal<\/em> last year) and also include some trivia about the scientist (<em>writes right-handed but pours left-handed.<\/em> or <em>Bill is a digital electronics whiz<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p>Recognition is the key.   <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the underlying themes that keep popping up in the &#8220;why we&#8217;re doing poorly at science&#8221; discussions is a dearth of publicly recognizable scientists. Along the lines of Tom Lehrer&#8217;s insistence that all movies need a snappy title tune &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/3134\">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":[46,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-general","category-silly"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3134","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=3134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3134\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}