Andrew Fisher - Professor, Earth Sciences

Selected: James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl

This book has been banned from several school reading lists, mainly because some parents are troubled by a lack of respect for authority and how adults are depicted - virtually all adults in the book are evil, and the rest are eaten by a rogue rhinoceros in the first chapter. From this book, I learned that most insects are friendly, sharks probably won't hurt you, and we should not be afraid to initiate risky, uncontrolled experiments.

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