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August 2, 2007

Thursday

Where are today's young mad scientists coming from?

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“Your baby, your way”…sang the snappy radio commercial.
“Predictable. Reliable. And no messy sex.”

Hillary hummed along as she slid a rack of test tube babies across the stainless steel countertop at Synergism Laboratory. Human cloning was fashionable now.

“Two decades ago, in 2007, folks protested when the word “clone” was added to birth certificates,” she harrumphed, reaching into the pocket of her white lab jacket.

Unfolding the glassine paper, she uncapped a tube and sprinkled in one milligram of 2,4,dichlorophenoxyacetic acid. “One agricultural mad scientist to go,” she chuckled, labeling the boy for shipment to Con-Agra, Peoria, Illinois, USA.

Posted by: Barb at August 2, 2007 10:25 AM · Permalink

In Honor of the Dearly Departed Mr. Wizard

He was the science teacher that we all wished we had in school. He gave us the desire to learn about our world around us. He never talked down to us, and instead treated everyone like a new burgeoning scientist. Everything was hands on that you could do at home, instead of a silly cartoon that you just watched mindlessly.

He could turn baking powder into an exploding volcano one day, and the next day he would turn it into a fire extinguisher.

Scientists everywhere were inspired to their life's work by him. Who will inspire the mad scientists now?

Posted by: Nick at August 2, 2007 5:30 PM · Permalink