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Oops, interesting. That's an interpretation I didn't anticipate or intend, but can now totally see. Thanks! Usually I mention "interwoven tapestry" and "stor
by mncharity 6y ago
Oops, interesting. That's an interpretation I didn't anticipate or intend, but can now totally see. Thanks! Usually I mention "interwoven tapestry" and "storytelling" separately. I shouldn't have combined the two. Science and engineering and daily life as tightly interconnected. And separately, storytelling as an educational device that can help with teaching about them.
Which I guess still overlaps. Hmm. Maybe a key difference is in one, stories are authoritative, and in the other, the sciences are authoritative, and the stories are educational artifact and subordinate to them. One failure mode in current science education content, is content "stories" that have taken on a life of their own, decoupled from or even conflicting with, the actual science. Hmm. Tapestry of connections vs tapestry of stories?
I was thinking more of stories vaguely like "Sticky strings play a large role in cellular microbiology. They stick and unstick at energies barely above thermal noise. Lower energy, would have them shaking apart too easily. Higher, would make unsticking too expensive and slow. So we refrigerate our food, so the bacteria in it slow down. And we cook our food, so bacteria's sticky strings are shaken apart."
Determining that one can correctly (I think?) say "slow down", rather than reality and the story being something else, like the speed doesn't change, but below some temperature some activities are turned off, regrettably requires going to primary literature. Because the odds of finding that precise issue, clearly addressed, with any hope of correctness, is elsewhere low.