BD Yeah so, it's really coming from a kind of inherited stock of=
DB =Yes but also applying new ideas. So something like the genetics exhibit upstairs, completely brand spanking new idea, where the complexities of the, of the whole how, how genes work. I've read a, read about 4, 4, 5 books on it. I know quite a lot now, it's quite, I've forgotten most of it but you know, there's a huge amount there that you need to get inside and you really need to kind of, read and understand how the scientists are doing it and what they're pleased with an how they're trying to do the job. Which we did do through Anna. A lot of experience there. And then we, through a demo that she had that she used with, kids we modified that to become an exhibit.
So that was a sort of example of how, Anna took something that was fiendishly complicated about inheritance, where many centres they will, you will go in and you will do the colour of your eyes. That is very very complicated. It's not a simple one. They try and do that with an exhibit so it's a very messaged "This is what you need to learn, we're just going to put in on the exhibition floor." I wouldn't imagine one in a hundred people actually sit down and really understand the complexities cause it's so many levels. You need to understand so much about it before you get there. The BBC with there genes - programmes and their big web site try to do, if you, it was quite, quite clever, try to do you know, I, I can dial up, and pick one of the Spice Girls and imagine I had a child with one of the Spice Girls and it would say the likely colour of, of, of the child's eyes. From knowing the colours of the eyes it's (Spice Girl you can be Robbie Welsh). But it was all trying to make it a bit funky trying to use someone famous but they didn't really go that much into the science about what was happening. Because it has such depth. And - superficially there's an awful lot of science out there. And you can't - no one person is ever going to be able to understand all of it and, as human beings we find out more and more about science. And so intellectually you get to a point where, the guys were meeting every Sunday, you know the Lunar - the "Lunar Club" or something? They used to meet and all these famous scientists every month or so would meet up and have a chat. There wasn't that much science then. There, there was stacks of science but compared to what we know now - didn't actually ( ) so you, you could start by just taking that information. We've now reached a point where there's so much science out there people can only have a flavour and a taste and you can not ram down someone's throat "Oh this is how this tiny little bit of DNA" just to know that there's tiny bits of DNA in chemicals and they make up our bodies, that's quite cool for anyone to know.
You can't expect everybody to know everything about the details and how the, the whole thing works because we know now as human beings, so much about it. So, it's, very very easy, for us to say in an admissions-driven science centre world "Oh we really need to create some exhibit about how RNA is worked or how or what's it PCR, machine replicates DNA" and actually allows people then to do fundamental genetic - scientific research. Which they couldn't do without the creation of this machine. But, you know, I mean, who's going to really, unless you're really really turned on about that particular tiny little area. They're, they're the same little areas in anything you can go into now. So we kind of struggle. It's the sort of broad idea and taking something far enough along the idea of the journey to know it's to do with how your parents' - chemicals, come together to create the offspring and how features of the parents come together, which are different depending on what actually happens at a tiny, tiny level of the sperm and egg coming together. You know, you managed to do that you'd be pretty ama- you know. I mean, I'm sure many courses, you know, you get your A-level Biology of whatever you know that from. But it's how much depth they can ever hope so they, they cover such a broad range. I guess, I guess science was easier when we didn't know so much. I guess it was so much easier to teach. Because now, you know, half the stuff , about your tongue, you know. In school people think this is where you taste, and it's all completely changed now. So if you go back to school and they're teaching it a completely different way because they know that your taste centres within your tongue now work in a different way than they thought of when we were at school. So, you know, when you were dropping the sugar on your tongue and, you know, the classic experiment that was, you know, was an interactive experiment because it involved you with actually doing something. It's cool. Everybody remembers it
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