{"id":13301,"date":"2013-02-12T15:37:48","date_gmt":"2013-02-12T23:37:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=13301"},"modified":"2013-02-12T15:37:48","modified_gmt":"2013-02-12T23:37:48","slug":"fed-up-with-the-safety-nazis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2013\/02\/12\/fed-up-with-the-safety-nazis\/","title":{"rendered":"Fed up with the safety nazis &#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; who are denaturing science as they&#8217;re trying to denature everything else &#8230; a Microsoft nerd put a nuclear reactor in his garage <a href=\"http:\/\/kplu.org\/post\/why-are-kids-federal-way-playing-nuclear-reactor\" target=\"_blank\">and invited smart kids to come play with it<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/2013\/02\/12\/fed-up-with-the-safety-nazis\/reactor\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-13302\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Reactor.png\" alt=\"Reactor\" width=\"440\" height=\"330\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13302\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Reactor.png 440w, https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Reactor-300x225.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 440px) 100vw, 440px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The project aims to reimagine what science class might look like, and nudge dozens of kids into careers in science and technology.<\/p>\n<p>It started with a guy named Carl Greninger, and his realization that tight budgets and fear of lawsuits have pushed out much of the fun, dangerous stuff from high school science labs, leaving \u201cnothing sharper than silly putty.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I walked into a classroom and I saw a science teacher. And he had a string and a paper cup. And he says, well, we&#8217;re studying physics, and I looked back at the kids and I saw the word &#8216;lame&#8217; tattooed across their foreheads. And I said, I can do better than this in my garage\u201d &#8230;.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Great story. Great everyday &#8212; or maybe not quite everyday &#8212; act of helpful subversion. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; who are denaturing science as they&#8217;re trying to denature everything else &#8230; a Microsoft nerd put a nuclear reactor in his garage and invited smart kids to come play with it. The project aims to reimagine what science class might look like, and nudge dozens of kids into careers in science and technology. It started with a guy named Carl Greninger, and his realization that tight budgets and fear of lawsuits have pushed out much of the fun, dangerous stuff from high school science labs, leaving \u201cnothing sharper than silly putty. &#8220;I walked into a classroom and I saw&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2013\/02\/12\/fed-up-with-the-safety-nazis\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Fed up with the safety nazis &#8230;.<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,18,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-homeschooling-and-free-families","category-mind-and-spirit","category-resistance","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13301\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}