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LEGO Americana Roadshow: Building Across America I just checked out this traveling exhibition from LEGO and was quite impressed. The scale ... -
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When we let politics trump science, people are needlessly put in harm's way. http://arstechnica.com/science/2017/01/self-censoring-fears...
I really wish we could adopt a system like Finland, but I don't see how that's even remotely possible.
ReplyDeleteI am genuinely surprised by this.
ReplyDeletePatrik Hanson That's only because you're not here. Anyone here who's paying attention is not surprised, but rather just reminded to be angry (hence my table-flip emoticon).
ReplyDeleteCraig Froehle - Really? The technology part came from nowhere. I mean, last?!
ReplyDelete"When it comes to technology skills, the story gets worse. The U.S. came in last place — right below Poland.
The study looked at basic technology tasks: things like using email, buying and returning items online, using a drop-down menu, naming a file on a computer or sending a text message."
Patrik Hanson Realize that that result is for those who graduated high school, but not college, and there's a massive racial disparity regarding technology savvy. This speaks mostly to the inequality inherent in how public schools are funded in many parts of the US, which is based on property taxes. As a result, wealthy communities have wealthy schools and poor communities have poor schools, and poor schools don't have technology on which to train students.
ReplyDeleteCraig Froehle - Oh, yeah. I got that. It is the same thing here. But I guess the priority might be different in USA compared to here.
ReplyDeleteWe are being dumbed down on purpose.
ReplyDeleteIdiocracy is not a movie, it's a wormhole.
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