When you hit 13, 14 15, science becomes memorization, memorizing silly facts into figures that youare never going to use in your life anyway. Einstein once said that unless a theory can be explained to a child, the theor is probably worthless. And so i think that young kids should be taught principles, why does it rain evolution? What drives evolution? These principles will stay with you for the rest of your let me give you a simple example. When you see the weather chard on t v, it's a bunch of random symbols that don't make any sense, right? But when i was a kid, someone explained to me thatWhy does it rain? Well, hot
This week on the penguin podcast, Nihal Arthanayake is joined by theoretical physicist, futurist, and popularizer of science, Michio Kaku. Together they discuss string theory, the unifying threads of different religious beliefs, human curiosity and the barriers to scientific thinking.
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