Explaining the elements of almost everything

Twenty years ago, I was proud of my lack of interest in science. I saw myself as a creative, artistic type, who wasn’t interested in factual subjects, and so I dropped all science subjects after my Inter Cert.

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By Hugh Aldersey-Williams

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Twenty years ago, I was proud of my lack of interest in science. I saw myself as a creative, artistic type, who wasn’t interested in factual subjects, and so I dropped all science subjects after my Inter Cert.

A few years later, I realised the error of my ways - but was it ...