The only way that more teacher education would be the primary cause of education being expensive is if such requirements resulted in high teacher salaries, which they don't. As a side note, neither the federal nor the state government has imposed a prerequisite of having a master's degree to be...
If you want to move upward in society, it would help to move to Europe (though not the UK).
From http://www.guardian.co.uk/britain/article/0,2763,1469685,00.html
While the US needs a port for Mississippi River traffic, New Orleans presents serious problems. The Army Corps of Engineers estimated that it would take around 6 years to plan and 30 years to complete preparations that would defend the city against a hurricane like Katrina...
It is pretty sad when American corporations have more economic power than most countries, isn't it? However, I suspect much of the difference is the result of proximity, with Walmart being headquartered in an adjacent state.
The technique is fairly simple, but the precision required is extremely high and the satellites are moving fast enough to require the Theory of Special Relativity. The GPS system is also far enough away from the Earth to experience a slightly different gravitational field, resulting in...
If you need to build a system that works to high precision, you can't rely on archaic laws. You need modern theories. If you're doing very precise engineering, you need to give up Newton's Laws of Motion in favor of the Theory of Special Relativity and you need to give up Newton's Law of...
I've got a PhD in physics and I'm a working scientist. What you're saying is simply incorrect. We [scientists] do not differentiate between laws and theories based on the level of evidence for them.
In the scientific world, law is simply an archaic term for theory. Laws are not any more certain than theories, and in fact, laws are often superseded by modern theories that work better than the old laws do. For example, Newton's Law of Gravitation was superseded by Einstein's Theory of...
You're right to wonder about education. There was a recent article in Nature, which included the following graph demonstrating that belief in creationism decreases dramatically with education:
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v434/n7037/fig_tab/4341062a_F1.html
Sounds good. I've been reading a fair bit of biology this summer, like Sean Carroll's Endless Forms Most Beautiful, but I haven't read much about biologists.
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