kyeb

MIT has something similar for its students - they lottery off an entire gallery of art to students to keep in their dorm rooms for the year every fall [0].

I have no idea what the damage statistics are for it, but this just reminded me of it.

[0] https://listart.mit.edu/collections/student-lending-art-prog...

Good luck enforcing something like that.

I wonder if there's a decent way to encourage kids want to grow up to explore the ocean floor, rather than everyone wanting to become an astronaut? The difference had always been so interesting to me, since so many writings draw comparisons between the surface of planets and our ocean floor.

I was gifted a subscription to their publication for years as a kid, but never got as into it as I wanted to. I loved reading about what others had made but felt like I never had the experience or expertise or money to make things myself. In hindsight, I probably could have done lots of cool thints.

When the subscription expired I didn't renew. This makes me so sad to see now - I feel like there's a world where I would have been extremely into this culture, and I feel like not having this publication around will prevent others from becoming that.