Peck's love of creativity and outer space was born from childhood, growing up as the son of science fiction writer Richard Peck. "I was surrounded by my dad's library of thousands of science fiction books," he says.
Not long ago in a high school in North Miami, some parents of gifted kids complained to my son, a science teacher, that the homework is too difficult.
Peck's love of creativity and space emerged from a childhood, growing up as the son of science fiction writer Richard Peck.
I will gladly hug evangelicals when they agree to keep their eyes out of my bedroom, their hands off my son's science textbooks and their politics out of my wife's womb.
"Going Down" is the story of a middle-age man who becomes entranced by one of his son's science fiction novels, because the book imagines a world of reverse aging.
Perhaps you'd like to settle for his mother's description of the, er, quantum theories of her famous intellectual son, the science writer, amateur juggler and public television host.
As we discuss, I recently threw my son a science-themed birthday party (this Mentos volcano was the highlight) and John just gave his son an Android tab.
Just before his death he arranged for Prof. James Crabbe, of the Universities of Oxford and Bedfordshire in the UK, and his research collaborator for over 10 years, to visit Qindao and lecture to hundreds of young people including one of his sons— about science and education.
A new book published in August, The Earth is Not for Sale, by David and Peter Schwartzman, a father-son environmental science duo (the former a professor emeritus at the Department of Biology, Howard University; the latter teaching environmental studies at Knox College), argues the opposite.
