{"id":4377,"date":"2017-06-22T14:39:54","date_gmt":"2017-06-22T20:39:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4377"},"modified":"2017-06-29T18:43:39","modified_gmt":"2017-06-30T00:43:39","slug":"my-kirkus-qa-with-dave-roman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4377","title":{"rendered":"My <em>Kirkus<\/em> Q&#038;A with Dave Roman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/7pics\/2017\/06\/Dave.Romanforpost.jpg\" style=\"float:right;\"><strong><font size=6>&#8220;<\/strong><\/font><em><strong><font color=\"#777777\">It is frustrating to see how a willful ignorance is becoming almost a badge of honor for certain people. You see a lot of dismissive statements that are contrary to how science works. So, I think teaching kids that scientists work as a community of fact-checkers who never stop questioning and challenging our assumptions about the world is probably more relevant than ever.\u201d<\/font><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><center>* * *<\/center><\/p>\n<p>Over at <em>Kirkus<\/em> today, I talk to author\/illustrator <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/yaytime.com\/\">Dave Roman<\/a><\/strong> about his work as the series editor for First Second\u2019s <em>Science Comics<\/em> series of nonfiction graphic novels. I wanted to know, in particular, what it&#8217;s like to offer these science titles in a day and age of science-denial, which is what he addresses in the quote above. <\/p>\n<p>The entire Q&#038;A is <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kirkusreviews.com\/features\/science-gets-graphic\/\">here<\/a><\/strong>. <\/p>\n<p>Until tomorrow &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><center>* * * * * * *<\/center><\/p>\n<p><em>Dave&#8217;s self-portrait above used by permission of First Second.<\/em> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;It is frustrating to see how a willful ignorance is becoming almost a badge of honor for certain people. You see a lot of dismissive statements that are contrary to how science works. So, I think teaching kids that scientists work as a community of fact-checkers who never stop questioning and challenging our assumptions about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogger-interviews","category-nonfiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4377\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}