Are YOU a science geek? Have you ever wondered what impact this might on your family?
It’s another scene of revenge from the “Children of Science Geeks”! Beware!
Comic provided courtesy of M.C.
How do scientists change their image when even their children laugh at them?
About Steve Caplan
I am a Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha, Nebraska where I mentor a group of students, postdoctoral fellows and researchers working on endocytic protein trafficking. My first lablit novel, "Matter Over Mind," is about a biomedical researcher seeking tenure and struggling to overcome the consequences of growing up with a parent suffering from bipolar disorder. Lablit novel #2, "Welcome Home, Sir," published by Anaphora Literary Press, deals with a hypochondriac principal investigator whose service in the army and post-traumatic stress disorder actually prepare him well for academic, but not personal success. Novel #3, "A Degree of Betrayal," is an academic murder mystery. "Saving One" is my most recent novel set at the National Institutes of Health. Now IN PRESS: Today's Curiosity is Tomorrow's Cure: The Case for Basic Biomedical Research (CRC PRESS, 2021).
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As told to me many years ago by a mathematician
“What does your dad do?”
“Dunno, I’ll ask him”
Later….
“Dad, what do you do?”
“I’m a clinical psycholohist”
“What’s that daddy?”
“It means I look after people with sick brains”
Later…
“So, what did your dad say he did?”
“He’s a brain surgeon”.
As John Cleese said: “My brain hurts!”
“It’ll have to come out. All the bits and pieces…”