北卡罗来纳州人民并非问题所在

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在这个专栏里,我多次抱怨北卡罗来纳州州议会和州长反对科学,除非发生重大变化,否则我可能会继续这样做。但一项新的调查提出了一个极好的反驳,北卡罗来纳州公民应该尽可能频繁地大声疾呼

我们不是问题所在!

北卡罗来纳州最受欢迎景点调查中,排名第一的是北卡罗来纳州自然科学博物馆,包括其壮观的新自然研究中心,其中有每日星球,世界上最大的地球仪。整个博物馆坐落在州议会的街对面,而州议会在最近一段时间在科学方面让自己蒙羞,因此仅仅在博物馆周围闲逛不一定有帮助。


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此外,我应该在这里声明,我是NCMNS之友理事会的成员,所以你必须认识到,无论博物馆是否赢得人气竞赛,我都热爱和支持它。但它确实很受欢迎:2012年有120万游客;排名第二的景点是比尔特莫庄园,位于阿什维尔,这个范德比尔特家族的超级豪宅号称是美国最大的私人住宅,有110万游客,因此在卡罗莱纳出版协会制作这份榜单的九年里,比尔特莫庄园首次没有获胜:一家科学博物馆获胜了。对于一个其领导层最近全身心投入科学否定论和抨击教育的州来说,这意义重大。

还有更多好消息:NCMNS并非孤立无援。在北卡罗来纳州十大最受欢迎的景点中,有六个至少在某种程度上与科学相关:夏洛特的发现地(第三),北卡罗来纳州动物园(第四),弹珠儿童博物馆(第六),北卡罗来纳州植物园(第九)和生命与科学博物馆(第十)。我们十大最受欢迎的博物馆或历史遗址中有六个与科学有关。

所以我要再说一遍,对于所有考虑来这里工作、娱乐、生活、访问的人们:问题不在于人民。人民喜欢科学和教育。立法机构和州长不喜欢。人民将在这里长期存在。和我们在一起,伙计们。科学终将取得胜利。

Scott Huler was born in 1959 in Cleveland and raised in that city's eastern suburbs. He graduated from Washington University in 1981; he was made a member of Phi Beta Kappa because of the breadth of his studies, and that breadth has been a signature of his writing work. He has written on everything from the death penalty to bikini waxing, from NASCAR racing to the stealth bomber, for such newspapers as the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Philadelphia Inquirer, and the Los Angeles Times and such magazines as ESPN, Backpacker, and Fortune. His award-winning radio work has been heard on "All Things Considered" and "Day to Day" on National Public Radio and on "Marketplace" and "Splendid Table" on American Public Media. He has been a staff writer for the Philadelphia Daily News and the Raleigh News & Observer and a staff reporter and producer for Nashville Public Radio. He was the founding and managing editor of the Nashville City Paper. He has taught at such colleges as Berry College and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

His books include Defining the Wind, about the Beaufort Scale of wind force, and No-Man's Lands, about retracing the journey of Odysseus.

His most recent book, On the Grid, was his sixth. His work has been included in such compilations as Appalachian Adventure and in such anthologies as Literary Trails of the North Carolina Piedmont, The Appalachian Trail Reader and Speed: Stories of Survival from Behind the Wheel.

For 2014-2015 Scott is a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT, which is funding his work on the Lawson Trek, an effort to retrace the journey of explorer John Lawson through the Carolinas in 1700-1701.

He lives in Raleigh, North Carolina, with his wife, the writer June Spence, and their two sons.

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