When Backyards Were Laboratories. How the decline of "tinkering" contributes to scientific illiteracy in the United States. By Henry Fountain. [New York Times: Science]

TInkering is key, and while my brother and I certainly did or share of tinkering (boy do I ever miss the old, two volume version of "The Way Things Work") in our day, and I hope to have a yard big enough for for them to play with technology, and learn a lot along the way.

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