Science Week
February 12-18
Let's celebrate science by posting on our personal sites, blogs, or social media!
Science is the act of wondering what's true, and the quest to find out.
You and I have the spirit of science when we observe the shape of a leaf, snowflake or galaxy, or imagine what it feels like to fly like birds or breathe water like fish. We benefit from science every time we use a computer or refrigerator, a medicine or an airplane, a lawn mower or a pencil. Every day humans study molecules, send probes to other planets, combat disease, and extend lives. We know more than anyone in history about our universe, and how we came to exist. A typical day for us would appear filled with magic to those from only a century ago. Science stirs us, improves life for us, and brings out the best in us. What could possibly be more deserving of worldwide celebration?
How to participate
On February 12, post about science on your blog or social media timeline about the spirit of science, scientific discoveries of the past, and the benefits they bring us. A post can be a simple link to something of interest, or your personal thoughts, experiences, observations, or contemplations.
- Use the tag or hashtag #ScienceWeek
- Link to this page so others can find it
- Send me your post, and I'll share it from here
| GOOD VERSION | Post once on Tuesday, February 12! |
| ENTHUSED VERSION | Post once each day from February 12 through February 18! |
Posts from Science Weeks past
2025
- Day 1 – Watch a nervous system developing
- Day 2 – RainbowSpec: all about rainbows!
- Day 3 – The accidentally-recorded meteorite strike
- Day 4 – From HyperCard to holodecks
- Day 5 – One spider's remarkable web site
- Day 6 – The Voyager 1 debug
- Day 7 – Solar system check
2025 (by Lexie)
2024
- Day 1 – A short and wondrous introduction to genetics
- Day 2 – What was the common idea of the universe 100 years ago?
- Day 3 – Capercaillie companion on the road
- Day 4 – How's your intuition for gravity in space?
- Day 5 – "World's hottest day since records began"
- Day 6 – Now that's personalized hair analysis
- Day 7 – Sticking up for science
2024 (by Sage)
- Day 1 – The Chemistry of Creation: Part 1
- Day 2 – The Chemistry of Creation: Part 2
- Day 3 – The Chemistry of Creation: Part 3
- Day 4 – Living Is Healing: Part 1
- Day 5 – Living Is Healing: Part 2
- Day 6 – Living Is Healing: Part 3
- Day 7 – Living Is Healing: Part 4
2024 (by Lexie)
2023
- Day 1 – A fine feather itself
- Day 2 – Phobos from Mars
- Day 3 – A micro-engineered cancer treatment: cells upon cells
- Day 4 – A word with the Impossible Burger guy
- Day 5 – How much saliva does a cow produce in a day?
- Day 6 – Does a ping-pong ball sink or float in zero gravity?
- Day 7 – Localized entirely without your kitchen
2023 (by Lexie)
- Day 1 – Scientia Potentia Est
- Day 2 – Animal Crossing's Museum: Making Science Part Of Your Daily Play
- Day 3 – The Magic Of Now
- Day 4 – It Came To Me In A Dream
- Day 5 – It's Hard To Be Depressed While Tripping On Psychedelics
- Day 6 – Mars' History May Have Included Life
- Day 7 – Science Is For Everyone
2022
- Day 1 – The tree of life, illustrated!
- Day 2 – Aligning Webb's mirrors
- Day 3 – A tour of the cell
- Day 4 – A recursive vegetable
- Day 5 – Atoms to scale
- Day 6 – How binary is sex?
- Day 7 – Discover the cosmos!
2021
- Day 1 – Evolutionary concestry
- Day 2 – The E-ELT
- Day 3 – Reconstructing the coronavirus
- Day 4 – James Randi and the empirical test
- Day 5 – The path of BepiColombo
- Day 6 – Mario and the future of augmented reality
- Day 7 – Mars Perseverance landing
2020
- Introduction
- Day 1 – Bombadier beetle's defensive melody
- Day 2 – The morning Earth met Neptune
- Day 3 – Decades later, government declares life-saving GMOs “safe”
- Day 4 – A close-up time lapse of the sun boiling away
- Day 5 – Eratosthenes’ calculation
- Day 6 – Microscopic world
- Day 7 – Saturn's moon collection
2019
- Day 1 – Hearing wind on Mars
- Day 2 – Units derived from nature
- Day 3 – Attenborough to world leaders
- Day 4 – No planets to thousands
- Day 5 – Face ID
- Day 6 – "Planetesimal"
- Day 7 – "Don't let's blow it"
2018
- Day 1 – Tree of life reprise
- Day 2 – The Deep Space Network
- Day 3 – Natural camouflage time
- Day 4 – Emily Rosa's energy field experiment
- Day 5 – Seán Doran's orbit of Earth
- Day 6 – The Apple Watch and health studies
- Day 7 – Cassini's final images
2017
- Steve declares Science Week.
- Countdown – "Bill Nye Saves The World"
- Countdown – The south pole of Jupiter
- Countdown – The relative sizes of the stellars
- Day 1 – The tree of life
- Day 2 – Saturn's rings from the Cassini probe
- Day 3 – Genetic modification for the din
- Day 4 – "#ActualLivingScientist" campaign
- Day 5 – "Intelligent Design On Trial"
- Day 6 – The 39 species
- Day 7 – Mr Schwarzenegger on the environment
- Final Day – Checkin' out NASA Goddard
See you on February 12!
And once again: here's to finding things out.
