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At the age of about 12, I discovered science fiction.
In junior high school, Dirda discovered science fiction, Shakespeare and Dale Carnegie.
He says he was "pretty wretched" at school and didn't reveal any academic "capability or interest" until he was about 16 and "discovered science in the biology lab".
I never really had a single favourite - but when I was about 12 or 13, I discovered science fiction and that became my "genre".
Yet Houellebecq, who discovered science fiction at 15, finds it "very intelligent but lacking flesh; once you assimilate the ideas, you don't want to re-read it".
I felt pretty disenfranchised from science at school: it wasn't until I discovered science fiction that I realised I could understand "difficult" technical concepts.
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Four years later he discovered science-fiction magazines, starting with Amazing Stories, and began collecting them and science-fiction memorabilia.
According to Russell, the small leisure class in previous centuries "cultivated the arts and discovered sciences; it wrote the books, invented the philosophies, and refined social relations without the leisure class, man would never have emerged from barbarism".
"Many of the things that excited us then are now reality, and I often wonder if youngsters now discovering science fiction for the first time get the same charge out of it that we did then".
At 9 14 the following morning, the magazine's editor-in-chief, Mariette DiChristina, whose biography notes that she is the "first female to assume the top post in Scientific American's 165-year history," tweeted, "Re blog inquiry: @sciam is a publication for discovering science.
The majority of the Ph.D. scientists teaching in high schools who answered a survey for Attracting reported being happy with their careers and concurred that a major reason is the pleasure of watching their students discover science.
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