While exercising today, I was wearing my spiffy new T-shirt with a diagram of the caffeine molecule on it. A few people asked about it, and then they asked me if I was a teacher or a scientist. I told them no, I was just a fan of science. They all seemed a bit shocked, as if they had never thought something like that was possible! I also have a shirt with the periodic table on it, and I've had similar encounters while wearing it.
It see it as my mission in life to do this. I don't have to change people's minds, I just have to bump that needle a bit and plant the idea that it's okay for a regular person to like science and be an advocate for it. I tried to be a scientist, but at the time I lacked the willpower and discipline to do it, so this is the least I can do to further their cause, one T-shirt at a time.
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