As a university student studying chemistry and material science, I find it unsettling that Americans don't take more interest in science matters. Modern science is the reason that we can cruise in fancy cars, see our parents halfway around the planet and expect to live well into the end of a century in more than one regard. Discoveries and innovations in science fields have the potential to completely revolutionize our way of life for the better, and if I were to want the american public to better understand one thing about science, it would be that science is for everyone. The way the sciences are currently perceived, they seem like unattainable fields coded in math and jargon intended for only a select few, an intellectual elite. But this is the fault of our society, not of science itself. Science is for people like you, me and the other millions of people who are looking to make their lives and the lives of others better. Science is for those of us who want to know more about how this world we live in ticks and what lies before and after what living in the present can offer. It is for those of us who are searching for meaning somewhere in this full yet empty universe into which we were all thrown blind. Science for us all, the Everyday Thinkers.
-Alex
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