{"id":2917,"date":"2012-07-10T16:04:39","date_gmt":"2012-07-10T21:04:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.encoretechresources.com\/insights\/?p=2917"},"modified":"2012-08-06T10:20:51","modified_gmt":"2012-08-06T15:20:51","slug":"aatish-bhatia-a-young-chronicler-of-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.encoretechresources.com\/insights\/2012\/07\/10\/aatish-bhatia-a-young-chronicler-of-science\/","title":{"rendered":"Aatish Bhatia: A Young Chronicler of Science"},"content":{"rendered":"

Just as blogs are providing new outlets for journalism so, too, are they producing a new generation of science writers. We’ve come upon one of them, Aatish Bhatia, creator of the blog Empirical Zeal, and he’s someone to follow. It’s a gift to explain complex material clearly and colorfully, and Aatish has that gift. Here, he’s featured by Scientific American<\/em><\/a>.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Even when he’s not writing about colors, as he is in his post “Crayola-fication of the World: How we gave colors names, and it messed with our brains,”<\/a> he’s writing colorfully and clearly, as in “What it feels like for a sperm, or how to get around when you are really, really small.”<\/a><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Aatish says his gift for chronicling science comes from growing up in a home where his father is a journalist and his mother a writer. “To a large extent,” he adds, “my interest in science grew from reading popular science.” \u00a0For how many others of us has that been true? <\/p>\n

His “gateway book” was Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman<\/em>. “It made my eighth-grade self realize that interesting people actually chose science as a career. That opened the door to a lot of other popular science authors. It became a bit of an obsession but to a large extent, these books guided my career interests.”
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Along with Feynman’s books on physics, Aatis recalls, “In a similar way, when I came across Richard Dawkins’ The Selfish Gene <\/em>and David Attenborough’s documentaries, I bean to realize that evolution is utterly fascinating. So it’s not surprising that I jumped on to science blogs…”<\/p>\n

For one of us here at Encore Technical Resources, much the same thing happened through magazines: Model Builder<\/em> and Model Railroader<\/em>. There you could find graphic articles about Frank Ellison’s Delta Lines\u00a0<\/a>and John Allen’s Gore and Daphetid<\/a> basement empires. Ellison was a New Orleans newspaperman and Allen was a Californian with the imagination of a novelist. They got me into a building and electronic connection mode. And here, of course, I’m blogging.<\/p>\n

What in the form of print on paper is turning kids on these days, or is print on a monitor’s screen sufficient? How much attention are schools, if not parents, paying to instilling creativity in young people, or are they counting on it just happening? It may, or may not.<\/p>\n

Such questions occurred, at any rate, in becoming acquainted with\u00a0Aatish Bhatia, a gifted practitioner and explainer of science. We’ll be hearing more of him, I expect. \u2013 Doug Bedell<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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