I ♥️ Science

Follow your intelligence. Pursue your passion.

Want to do some science outside of school? Want to watch a good science movie? Want to listen to a good science podcast? Want to find a good science book to read? If you can’t get enough science in Dr. Merritt’s class, then fear not, he’s got you covered with the sections below.

Doing

It’s hard to know what science IS. It’s much easier to know what scientists DO.

COMING SOON

Listening

Many people now find themselves living within a highly visual culture. Listening, however, is a great way of staying connected to new developments in science and technology. Especially in a world in which many people now own highly portable, pocket-sized devices (which often come with a pair of earbuds), it’s pretty easy to find interesting–and often entertaining–scientific stories and experiences in an auditory format. In this section you’ll find ways of listening to science.

COMING SOON

Keeping Up

The Kiosk is a place for up-to-the-minute news, discoveries, and breakthroughs from the worlds of science, technology, and engineering. It is a single webpage displaying RSS news feeds to satisfy all of your news-related cravings. There are many ways to keep up with the latest science news and discoveries, but this webpage is truly an everything-in-one-place experience.

Take me to the Kiosk

Noticing

Contribute to any one of the many Noticing Galleries. Admission is free!

HAVE A LOOK

Reading

To read or not to read? That is the question. When considering that question let us consider the advice of highly successful journalist, essayist, playwright, screenwriter, novelist, producer, director, and blogger Nora Ephron,

“Reading is everything. Reading makes me feel like I’ve accomplished something, learned something, become a better person. Reading makes me smarter. Reading gives me something to talk about later on. Reading is the unbelievably healthy way my attention deficit disorder medicates itself. Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape; it’s a way to make contact with reality after a day of making things up, and it’s a way of making contact with someone else’s imagination after a day that’s all too real. Reading is grist. Reading is bliss.”

It should be clear that this website’s author is a huge fan of reading. In this section you’ll be pointed in some directions–both digital and non-digital–in which you might find some science-focused reading you’ll enjoy.

coming soon

Texting

Email, WhatsApp, Instagram, Snapchat, YouTube, TikTok…you probably send friends and family messengers hundreds of text messages each week and you probably write dozens of comments in group chats. In this section you’ll find a highly curated gallery of emojis–but also creative combinations of emojis–to help ‘scienceify’ your daily messages and comments.

Embrace your nerdiness. Text with style.

IN DEVELOPMENT

Watching

The regular use of your eyes is a great way of staying connected to new developments in science and technology. As it happens there are many ways of watching science. The links in this section are merely portals to science–and science-related–topics presented in highly visual and often entertaining formats: for example, short videos, documentary films, major motion pictures, etc.

COMING SOON

Writing Workshop

Much of the day-to-day work of many research scientists involves countless hours of writing. The Writing Workshop (or WW), which is a sort of website within a website, aims to demystify science writing and help you learn how to produce common school-based scientific texts–such as lab reports and research articles–but with greater authenticity and sophistication than many school science teachers expect (this is why you will also find the WW listed in the Help Center).