I should have loved biology (2020)

Biology is taught as lifeless facts, not as the wondrous, quest-driven science it is.

The author argues that biology education fails by presenting facts without the astonishment they deserve. High school biology required memorizing terms like the Golgi apparatus and Krebs cycle without conveying the wonder of embryonic differentiation or DNA as a recursive program. The article praises resources like David Goodsell's "The Machinery of Life" for giving physical intuition of cellular processes. It recommends learning methods like RNA-seq and Western blots to understand how biologists know what they know, and suggests starting with personal questions like "Why are my eyes blue?" to drive learning.