omg!: Danica McKellar has a message for girls: Cute and smart is better than cute and dumb. McKellar, who played Winnie on the 1990s television show “The Wonder Years,” is coming out with a book, “Math Doesn’t Suck,” to encourage girls to get into math. “When girls see the antics of Paris Hilton and Lindsay Lohan, they think that being fun and glamorous also means being dumb and irresponsible,” the 32-year-old McKellar told Newsweek for editions to hit newsstands Monday.
Wonder if she’s going to send Paris, Nicole, and Lindsay a thank you card for creating the perfect environment for the release of a book like this? She should get more press out of them than any book junket could.
Still, dumb seems to sell better than smart – Danica has an uphill battle ahead of her.
I heard about her… that girl graduated summa cum laude from UCLA where she proved a theorem. She’s written published mathematical papers, too. As a science geek, I gotta love her for that.
Wired News interview: http://www.wired.com/culture/education/news/2007/08/winniecooper_QA
Good to see her getting press… very good.
Math is hard, let’s go shopping!
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Hey Randy, it’s about time I linked you up. Anybody who remembers Wonder Years with fondness is a friend of mine. ;)