Sir, – As a science teacher I am always pleased to see scientists portrayed on the big screen, with Oppenheimer, about a theoretical physicist, and Barbie, concerning an astronaut, Mars explorer, astrophysicist, chemist, entomologist, marine biologist, robotics engineer, palaeontologist and zoologist among her over 200 different careers. She was also a science teacher like me, although I was less into pink.
It is good to see the world through pink-coloured glasses, but we need more students to undertake science in their studies and enter the scientific occupations, although hopefully not bomb-making.
Let’s hope that young people see how science can make the world a better place and how they can contribute to its progress. – Yours, etc,
DENNIS FITZGERALD,
Matt Williams: Take a deep breath and see how Sam Prendergast copes with big Fiji test
New Irish citizens: ‘I hear the racist and xenophobic slurs on the streets. Everything is blamed on immigrants’
Jack Reynor: ‘We were in two minds between eloping or going the whole hog but we got married in Wicklow with about 220 people’
‘I could have gone to California. At this rate, I probably would have raised about half a billion dollars’
Melbourne,
Australia.