Falling for Science: Objects in Mind

edited by sherry turkle

ISBN 10: 0262201720 / ISBN 13: 9780262201728

Published by The MIT Press, 2008

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Falling for Science: Objects in Mind
• Publisher: The MIT Press
• Publication Date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0262201720
• ISBN 13: 9780262201728
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition.
• Condition: New
• Dust Jacket Condition: New

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Synopsis

"This is a book about science, technology, and love," writes Sherry Turkle. In it, we learn how a love for science can start with a love for an object - a microscope, a modem, a mud pie, a pair of dice, a fishing rod. Objects fire imagination and set young people on a path to a career in science. In this collection, distinguished scientists, engineers, and designers as well as twenty-five years of MIT students describe how objects encountered in childhood became part of the fabric of their scientific selves.

About the Author

Barbara Neri is a multidisciplinary artist and scholar based in Michigan. She is currentlycreating a book of art/criticism on EBB's Sonnets from the Portuguese. Neriwill perform The Consolation of Poetry on 23 and 24 October 2003 in the SponbergTheatre, Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, Michigan.