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Asked by megizabutler to David, Luna, Mark, Melanie, Probash on 20 Mar 2011 in Categories: About. This question was also asked by fireexit234, tekii, gmsv, dancer123, maddieandangela123, mattcody.
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David Pyle answered on 17 Mar 2011:
I just wanted to understand something about the natural world, and how it worked. Later, I discovered that this was called science – and it wasn’t till late on at university that I got to study volcanoes, which is what I now work on.
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Luna Munoz answered on 17 Mar 2011:
My first study was done as an undergraduate. I looked into how people process directions like left and right. I also volunteered to look at the fact that English is read left to right and the influence this has on the impairments of learning disabilities. I then did a study looking at the stress response of toddlers who are more or less anxious than other toddlers. After these, I decided that I loved figuring out how the body’s responses affect how we behave and vice versa. So, I studied biopsychology and developmental psychology and I now run scientific studies that address these questions.
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Melanie Stefan answered on 18 Mar 2011:
I had some fantastic science teachers in school: One of our physics teachers taught us how to make holograms, which was quite cool.
I also started reading a lot, especially about biology. It was about the time that the human genome was being sequenced, so there was a lot of exciting new stuff going on!
I also found that maths was actually rather like a game, where you make some assumptions and then prove stuff starting from those assumptions, and I found it quite exciting that you could build an entire theory upon things that didn’t really actually exist (like imaginary numbers).
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Mark Vesey answered on 20 Mar 2011:
I found it enjoyable and always enjoyed investigating things so this led to the interest in science.
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