I hoped to quell it by finding some sort of community science education group that I could serve as a volunteer. All such groups that I found were aimed at teaching science to children. While this is, of course, a noble goal, I kept searching for a program that would explain science to adults. I never found one. They wouldn't understand.
Pliable minds exist only in the young.
With this I simply do not agree. Once the idea for the program hatched, I enlisted the help of my fellow graduate students. And I got responses from more than 20 people who have become extremely committed to this project. We registered about 90 people for our eight-seminar program, running on the Quad every Wednesday evening from Sept. 27 through Nov. 15. The participants are teachers, media professionals, warehouse employees, artists, doctors, deli supervisors, social workers, and retirees.