The Beginning

I was inspired to start The Scientific Pony after a conversation with a coworker.  I had met her young daughter at a work lunch the previous weekend and had been playing with her for a while so her mother (my co worker) could get a chance to eat.  The little girl had brought some of the My Little Pony toys and she was impressed that I knew their names and even more impressed when I told her I had a real pony of my own who I rode.  Well, that Monday my co worker came over to thank me for talking to her daughter.  The child had been talking all weekend about how a girl could like both ponies and Mars, like me.  

I realized that even the pushes to get girls into science tend to group girls.  There are the science girls, the fashion girls, the sports girls, and of course the horse girls who I see running around the barn every day.  There is a tendency by these girls to settle into their category and to lose interest in other categories.  My hope is that The Scientific Pony can help break down some of the barriers between girly things and science and technology.

I’ll be starting off with a discussion of Newton’s 1st law and then varying the topics to cover a number of different concepts.  I hope you enjoy The Scientific Pony.