Why blog about science?
"It was a dark and stormy night..." I have always credited A Wrinkle in Time author Madeleine L'Engle for my ability to see science and creativity weaved into a single entity.
"It was a dark and stormy night..." I have always credited A Wrinkle in Time author Madeleine L'Engle for my ability to see science and creativity weaved into a single entity.
The science-y aspects alone were not something that my 9-year-old mind could fathom—tesseracts? Space-time-continuums? Exploring L'Engle's intricately detailed fantasy world, however, opened my mind to the idea of not only writing about science, whether fiction or non-fiction, but making it enjoyable and understandable to laymen and young people.
Science should be accessible to everybody. Unfortunately, a great rift still divides the scientific community and the rest of society. As a neuroscientist and lover of words, I hope to erect a bridge between the two—if not a sturdy steel suspension bridge, at the very least some rope rungs onto which everybody may hold. The purpose of Gaines, on Brains is to introduce recent discoveries in neuroscience to science lovers and non-lovers, the literate to the laymen.
-Kourtney Geers, PennLive.com community producer
"I really love the topic choices. Keep it up!"
-JoAnna Klein, On Again Rat Again
"Well-written."
-American Biotechnologist
"My culture is in desperate need of science writers, so thank you for your contribution."
-A reader of my PennLive.com blog "Gaines Explains Brains"