Science Week
February 12-18
Let's celebrate science by posting on our personal sites, blogs, or social media.
Science is not superstition, wishing or guessing, but the act of finding things out.
You and I harness science every time we use a computer or smartphone, a bicycle or a car, a camera or a light switch. We mingle with the spirit of science when we observe the shape of a leaf, a snowflake or a galaxy, or imagine what it's like to follow the path of a flying object. We study life at the level of the molecule, send probes to other planets, effectively combat disease and extend lives. We know more than ever about our expansive universe and how we came to exist in it. Finding things out benefits us, stirs us, and brings out the best in us. What could be more deserving of worldwide celebration?
How to join in!
Write a little about anything about science you appreciate, from a bacterium to a galaxy, from an observation about your pet to a thought about all evolution, from a silly disproven hypothesis to the deep history of Earth. Or share a link to something on the Web! It doesn't matter what you pick – what's important is to explain why you picked it, and let others hear your thoughts.
To help spread the word, feel free to:
- Use the tag or hashtag #ScienceWeek
- Link back 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! |
All posts
I began Science Week in 2017! Feel free to browse here for examples.
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.
