Science, Math and Flying Erasers

His dodging skills were equal to his multiplication abilities.

Glenn Thaxton

When I was growing up in the 1950s, radio shows about Buck Rogers flying between planets ignited my imagination and seeded an early interest in science. Science was in everything. It was the essence of being modern. We had machines that washed our clothes and dried them, that washed our dishes, and that vacuumed up cracker crumbs easier than the whisk of a broom. Machines of all sorts that made life easier were beginning to pop up everywhere. Soon we would have moving images of people transmitted right into our homes. These gifts of technology and engineering pointed toward a fantastic future, and they all required math skills to make them work. While I was busy climbing the educational ladder in elementary school, my dad staked out a future in…

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Good Old Days (Digital) - 1 Issue, October 2023

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