The Homely Scientist

It’s the 7th of the month so it must but channel theme day here on Sci-Health..  Our uber-blogger Christina has the list up already.  Now being the only Sci-Health blogging who lives on the West Coast and didn’t write their post ahead of time, I’m a little behind.  I did start this last night.  I got three down before my brain called it quits. … in no particular order (read: this is the order they came out of my head), The Top 10 Things I love about science:

1. The world is an amazing place
2. Ockham’s Razor is usually true
3. Rocks are cool (thanks Dr. Bob!)
4. One word: Experiments
5. Two words: messy experiments
6. Getting to hang out in warm, interesting, fun places and getting to call it "field work"
7. My rock hammer (soft rock aka mason’s hammer).  Yes, my rock hammer is engraved with my name (it was a graduation gift from Dr. Bob).
8. Being able to criticize CSI, Bones, and other Sci heavy shows … because you know when they are totally wrong (side note: about two years ago there was an article in the Victoria, BC paper talking with the real forensics team around here.  They said it would take several lifetimes for people to gather enough random knowledge that the CSI folks just casually mention).
9. Books.  I have some really cool books.  Okay I’m the only one who thinks Process Geomorphology is cool.
10. While this is #10 … this is the best for me.  Going to the beach, checking out the tide pools and stuff with the kids and having almost as much fun as they are discovering things.  Then being able to tell the kids all the cool things about the critter they just found.

So there is my list.  I don’t think I meant for this to be a funny post at first.  I guess it’s the early morning mood.  That and I read Rob’s diabetes top ten list and I was inspired.

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