F Minus by Tony Carrillo for September 10, 2015

Actually, science fairs have gone quite a bit beyond baking soda volcanoes these days.

Why ask why?

Seriously Toby, good question but we need to be a little more specific. We’re on deadline here.

In the beginning there were strings. The strings became particles and the particles became hydrogen matter and antimatter. Everything just fell into place after that.

Meanwhile, in the philosophy department the professor is puzzling over a student building a replica of a volcano and telling him, “You should write your paper on why we’re here or something.”

…and in the cinematography department they are studying “Close Encounters of the Third Kind” where they’ve happily done both at the same time.

Why are they there? Well, truancy laws, mostly.

No, the answer to why we are here is to make baking soda volcanos

Sigh… poor kid. I would jump at the chance to facilitate my students’ forays into bio/geo/cosmological inquiry. Yet this guy wants to stifle a child’s scientific curiosity with one of the most exhausted tropes of the science classroom.

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