Farewell, Mr. Wizard
Don Herbert, better known as Mr. Wizard, passed away yesterday. I have many memories as a kid of watching him on Nickelodeon compose experiments or play with electronics. I was amazed how neighborhood kids stopped by just in time to see these and quietly hoped that I could be part of that world. I had been unaware of his earlier, and apparently much more well-known, show during the 1950s and 60s.
While I haven't gone on to science as a career, I do still harbor a significant amount of technology geekness, and that is due, probably in no small part, to Mr. Herbert's influence. So here's to Mr. Wizard!
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