Being "nerdy" and "into science", albeit superficially, has recently become a fad within the general public.
>When did this start?
>Has this always been there and it's just now being popularized? If so, why?
>Is this a good or bad thing? It seems stupid, but it does make science more relevant....
thoughts?
The mainstream-mainstream (pop music, sports, gay shit in general) is being broken and now more people expect better conversation, which is why now people do shit like watch entry level bad TV shows like Game of Thrones and the like to make better conversations.
You are kinda socially expected to watch entry level bad TV shows like GoT now.
But you can't always carry a conversation with a TV show so what else will you talk about? That balding science guy you saw that one time talking about time and space bro lol xD!
Basically, the density of expected conversation is increasing. If you want to be good to hang with then you need to have at least some mainstream but not mainstream-mainstream hobbies and watching science videos now count as a hobby, for some reason.
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This board is basically 80% science fanboys
it is 100% a good thing
it's just kind of annoying for anyone in science but that's all
i don't know
OP here,
I guess I'm a bit frustrated by over simplistic explanations of actually interesting things just to create a false air of mystery around science. I think it does a disservice because people think that science is about being impressed with stuff that we don't understand. It's kinda lazy.
All I can say is that I cringe whenever I relive memories of me pestering my physics II professor with weird general off topic questions unrelated to what was taught that day after class. I always thought he appreciated my curiosity but looking back on it he probably hated me for being an uninformed brainlet.