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  • 'Hidden' Economy in Silicon Valley Built Without Advanced Degrees

    06/10/2013 8:52:11 AM PDT · by nickcarraway · 12 replies
    San Jose Mercury News ^ | 06/10/2013 | Lisa M. Krieger
    Silicon Valley is world-renowned for the Nobel Prize winners and MacArthur "geniuses" behind theoretical breakthroughs in science, technology, engineering and math. Less well-known are people like Patrick Pickerell, a high school dropout whose $10 million-a-year Pleasanton metal manufacturing company is powered by people with no university credentials but plenty of math and fix-it skills -- ingredients essential to innovation. A new report, "The Hidden STEM Economy," reveals that a university degree is not required for 27.5 percent of all jobs in the San Jose area in the fields of science, technology, engineering and math. The number is even higher --...
  • Ivy League Critical Mass

    02/03/2010 3:34:22 AM PST · by Scanian · 23 replies · 519+ views
    The American Thinker ^ | February 03, 2010 | John Kelly
    "One man's meat is another man's poison," as the saying goes. Let me explain a most striking case in point. Last year at about this time, David Brooks of the New York Times anticipated an enormous intellectual dividend for our country. After cataloguing the Obama administration's numerous Ivy League J.D.s and Ph.D.s, and with no mention of their real-world experience, he went on to write: "Already the culture of the Obama administration is coming into focus. Its members are twice as smart as the poor reporters who have to cover them, three times if you include the columnists." While Mr....