Posted on 08/13/2009 5:12:05 PM PDT by Clint Williams
Pickens writes
"The BBC reports that four out of five parents living in the UK have been stumped by a science question posed by their children with the top three most-asked questions: 'Where do babies come from?', 'What makes a rainbow?' and 'Why is the sky blue?'. The survey was carried out to mark the launch of a new website by the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills called Science: So what? So everything."
One gets the impression that government-run "services" to the general public should be at least largely, if not completely (there may be counter-examples) shunned and rejected. Not necessarily out-of-hand, but at least after analysis of "what could go wrong?" (Which appears to be the total opposite of Congress' approach these days.)
In-credible! Who doesn't know what color the sky is?
Oops, sorry...the question is "why" it's blue?
Well, duh. Everybody knows its Rayleigh scattering.
Maybe the government is, in effect, running a breeding and education program to create the Eloi and Morlocks.
Storks, Jesse Jackson, and shutup, kid.
News like this coming out of Great Britain almost makes one feel good about American schools. But not quite.
They don’t know where babies come from but they have children, where’d they get them?
BTW, did you hear last week that science is actually unsure of the origins of clouds and new theory suggests they originate from Cosmic rays, not entirely from dust nucleation sites in the atmosphere? I thought that science was "settled" long ago.
Well, normally I tend to stick up for the British on certain things. But in this I have to concur. People here know very little about science. And they don’t care to know. Sort of an alien concept for me but... There it is. We can thank our space race for having a large swathe of our population literate in the sciences.
The words "science" and "settled" probably should not appear together in a sentence. There always seems to be some little complication hiding in the details, such as the cosmic rays you mention, which are affected by the solar magnetic flux, which is somehow tied to the sunspot cycles, which may be in their turn tied to tidal effects from Jupiter and Saturn.
We never run out of things to study. That, at least, is settled.
this is really sad... my kids can answer these questions...
Another case in point. Just last week, some scientists announced that the DNA in all human cells is NOT identical! My daughter just finished a bio sequence at the university and told me the instructor was drilling into their heads until the last day that all DNA in a human being is the same.
Because Darwin painted it that way.
I bet Robert Gibbs doesn't.
Cheers!
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