In what ways do past and present images portray the scientist as "other"? What's at stake?

:: What does "Yeah I'm Not a 'Science' Person"/"No, I'm Not a 'Science Person' Mean?
:: The scientific mind versus the public mind: are you smart enough to wear a lab coat?

week 2 reading

□ Standage, The Victorian Internet (chapters 4-9))

□ Margaret Mead and Rhoda Metraux, [From the journal Science, 1957] "Image of the Scientist among High School Students"

□ Roslynn Haynes, "From Alchemy to Artificial Intelligence: Stereotypes of the Scientist in Western Literature" Public Understanding of Science, 2003 (12) 243-25

□ Matthew Francis, "No, Scientists are Not Smarter than Non-Scientists," Forbes (2018)

week 2 media sources

Browse these examples of 20thc science and popular culture

□ Class Collection of Science Memes
□ Bill Nye, the Science Guy
□ Neil deGrasse Tyson

□ "Marie Curie" at xkcd: A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language.

View this historical video:

• Felix the Cat, "Felix Baby-Sits," (1959) [8 minutes]

week 2 assignments

1. Setting Up Your Wordpress Blog [Due 9.3]

2. Discussion Post #2 [Due 9.7]