Author:: James Somers Link::https://jsomers.net/i-should-have-loved-biology/ #media/Article biology was taught wrong in school, should’ve started with the fundamental questions that researchers at the frontier asked themselves not the rote memorization drawing and making an abstract concept physical is core to this

  • once you can literally grasp and manipulate something, you are able to understand it so much more because it is dynamic and you can try and see
    • key behind interactivity was the ability to be not just thinking about the model but also feeling it viscerally. ^UENdfoqSl
    • see more from The Dream Machine
    • linking to Bret Victor’s dynamicland
    • ideas people who can draw what they explain are the smartest people
      • weaknesses need to learn how to draw to really conceptualize