Update #11:...

Update #11: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/JasonRodriguez/the-little-particle-that-could/posts/1808854, wherein my godson models his new SCIENCE LIFE tattoos and I talk about the importance of keeping our kids creative and curious.

Excerpt:

Kids have always fascinated me. They’re tiny scientists from the moment they’re born. Opening their eyes is their first experiment. Then it’s testingmuscles and neurons - figuring out how to control a hand. How to stand and how to walk and how to form words. One failed hypothesis after another; always trying a different approach to a task they’re trying to master.

It’s kind of depressing to think that we now have to assure them that, yes, science is real. Yes, climate change is real. Yes, vaccines are safe. Yes, evolution is real. These kids have spent their early years as some of the bravest scientists imaginable - sacrificing life and limb just to figure out how to pull themselves onto your lap - and we have to tell them: “Yes. Curiosity and perseverance and methodology will continue to produce observable, repeatable, and defensible results. That is a real thing, no matter how many people tell you that it isn’t.”