Sandra Dodd

I've just made a new page,
http://sandradodd.com/mylittlepony

It's about a scientist who said her interest in math started with My
Little Pony.

Here's where I was first sent (by Rachel Ginsburg, who saw it on
another list; thanks!!) and decided to quote that section with "new
improved" links to the author, the scientist named, and the book which
includes other MIT grad students' stories of what inspired them (Lego
and other such).

http://boingboing.net/2010/02/10/how-my-little-pony-t.html

Anyone in the mood to see some responses and maybe get in on it, the
topic is new and some of them are anti-child, anti-play. Stunning.
And one person is trying to go to great lengths to discredit the whole
idea.

One of the more irritating responses included this:

-=-Even though I personally lean towards the type of engineer who
never played with any sort of doll or pony, and I don't think it was
because I did not have a pony available at the time ( I come from a
rather poor country, and I was given only 3 dolls throughout my
childhood). I still had objects around me that made me wonder (at the
age of 5 I would try to understand an astronomy book from my mother
for hours and hours per day). -=- (anonymous comment; doesn't say
where or what the person is doing now)

Sandra

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Bob Collier

--- In [email protected], Sandra Dodd <Sandra@...> wrote:
>
> I've just made a new page,
> http://sandradodd.com/mylittlepony
>
> It's about a scientist who said her interest in math started with My
> Little Pony.
>



My daughter loved My Little Pony. She had quite a collection. I used to read her stories from a My Little Pony bumper storybook she had before she could read them herself. Sometimes, we used to play with the ponies together too and make up new stories about them. That was an interesting experience. :-)

(She had a smaller collection of Fashion Star Fillies, similar idea but they looked more like real horses.)

Happy days!

Bob