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Discussion I thought it would be fun to look at a couple of examples of a relatively recent kind of hero: the scientific hero

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I thought it would be fun to look at a couple of examples of a relatively recent kind of hero: the scientific hero. This is a hero who can do amazing things with the knowledge that in theory, anyone has access to. Actually, these heroes are still well beyond most of us and usually have a lot of luck. One of my favorites is MacGyver (Links to an external site.) (the original played by Richard Dean Anderson), from a 1980s-90s TV show. He was basically a troubleshooter for the Phoenix Foundation, a philanthropic organization whose projects ranged from helping homeless teenagers to staging international hostage rescue missions. He hated guns, and made do with resources he found around him. He usually traveled with a Swiss army knife and duct tape. The verb "to macgyver" means to fix something using ordinary objects: "You just MacGyvered (Links to an external site.) your way into your house after being locked out (Links to an external site.) using a paper clip (Links to an external site.) and a shoelace." (Urban Dictionary) (Links to an external site.)

"Hero Elementary" (Links to an external site.) is an animated series on PBS designed to teach children about logic and the scientific method. The young heroes do have superpowers, but there's always a point where they realize that their superpowers can't solve the problem, and that's when they say, "Let's use our superpowers of science!" And then they very logically figure out what to do. This series is also notable for including an autistic boy in a group of four friends, and sometimes his different ways of perceiving the world are an important part of solving the problem.

In our modern technological society, it's not surprising that we have hero stories that valorize science and engineering. Many real-life heroes are in this category, too! Please add the name of a real scientific hero and a link to a webpage about them.

 

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