Why do I blog?

One of my clearest memories from my childhood was a commercial that I saw for a science summer camp.

The commercial opens with two girls walking down the street of a suburban neighborhood. The girls turn their heads as a car passes by. All of a sudden, instead of seeing the car we see a blueprint schematic of the car. The schematic is animated, detailing how all of the different parts of the car are assembled as well as how they interact with each other.

Then, we're back to the two girls, who have advanced a few more paces down the road since we last saw them. This time, they turn their head in the other direction and see someone jogging down the street with a CD-player clasped to the hip. Again, we are taken out of the scene, this time to a blueprint schematic of the CD player. The animation details how exactly a CD-player uses a laser to read the disk and ultimately how that is translated into sound that comes out of the runner's headphones.

We then go back to the girls for a third time, how are now interested in a barking dog across the street. As the dog makes barking noises, we see diagrams and equations appear on the screen which appear to be analyzing the sound that the dog is making.

Finally, the commercial ends with information regarding the summer camp such as when and how to sign up for it, as well as revealing that it is for girls only.

Unfortunately, I didn't ever get to attend the camp, but the commercial was absolutely captivating to me. I realized I wanted to see the world exactly the way the two girls did in that commercial--to be able to look at something and see how it works on the inside. To me, that commercial sent the same message that I try to send with my blog posts about science--that it's all around us so long as we look for it! I hope to be able to share this perspective with as many of my readers as possible.