“Kids these days!”
It’s one of the oldest, most constant complaints: kids today are ruder, lazier, dumber, etc., than they were at some indeterminate point in the past—usually coinciding with when the complainer was a child. But what if it’s not the kids’ fault? What if they simply aren’t getting the opportunity to learn the [...]
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Science class: MIA
Published October 25th, 2007 in Body & Mind, Human World, Science and Videos. 5 CommentsGerbils! (gerbils, gerbils)… In! (in, in)… SPAAAACE!
Published September 15th, 2007 in Science and Space. 3 CommentsI have nothing useful to say about this, except that I really hope Russia posts videos of its ten Space Gerbils on YouTube…
October 4th, 2007, will mark the 50th anniversary of the launch of the Sputnik 1, the first man-made object to orbit the Earth. A new documentary, The Fever of ‘57, examines, through archival footage and interviews, the impact that Russia’s success in launching the first satellite had on American consciousness and science. The space race, [...]