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Science Corner: Entertaining Lies and Real Truth

April 15, 2015 by Andy Walsh Leave a Comment

It's not exactly science news, but  this item on  the role of fiction in engaging the scientific imagination really caught the eye of this science fiction fan. I'm familiar with Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Flatland, both of which encode interesting mathematics questions as  narrative, but I had no idea scientific fairy tales were a whole genre. The one with the various chemical elements embodied as fairies sounds particularly fascinating. Knowing how much my daughter and her friends love fairies, perhaps it's … [Read more...] about Science Corner: Entertaining Lies and Real Truth

Filed Under: Christ and the Academy, Science Tagged With: fairy tale, myth, science corner, science fiction

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