Dirk;

In answer to your question about making science attractive. On of the 
ways I think is to help our visitors understand that science is 
relevant to their lives. Why should we care about evolution? Because 
it is why we have a different flu vaccine (when we can produce one 
that is) each and every year; why we are presented with the prospect 
of an avian flu epidemic; why insects become resistant to DDT; why 
malaria will probably never be wiped out; why we have a biotechnology 
industry etc. etc.   For some percent of our visitors science is 
interesting and fun for others there is the emotional pull of knowing 
the floor pushed back with an equal force to our step so we don't all 
through the floor or fly up into the sky and for others it is an 
understanding of the world around us and how it affects us and us it.

Martin


-- 
Martin Weiss, Ph.D
Vice President, Science
New York Hall of Science
47-01 111 th Street
Corona, New York 11368
718 699 0005 x 356

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