MCalavera wrote:
I wish I was a science nerd ...
"Cosmos" by Carl Sagan is a good book to start with. He explained some very complex phenomena in terms that most people could easily understand.
Any science book or science-fiction story by Asimov, Bradbury, Clarke, or Heinlein might inspire you yo think in more scientific terms.
Earning an engineering degree has certainly enabled me to have greater access to all manner of scientific data and equipment, not to mention a house with a huge back yard, a couple of cars, lucrative employment, a
wife ...