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I am the Online Community Manager at PLoS-ONE (Public Library of Science). My job is to try to motivate you to comment on the papers there. My scientific specialty is chronobiology (circadian rhythms and photoperiodism), with additional interests in comparative physiology, animal behavior and evolution. You can contact me at: Coturnix@gmail.com
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New UNC Chancellor is a scientist. w00t!
Category: Academia • North Carolina
Posted on: May 9, 2008 11:21 AM, by Coturnix
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He is rather the exception than the rule. The National Academy of Sciences has published a book on the sorry state of science education in the U.S. It is free in pdf.
http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=12021
"Part of this unfamiliarity probably stems from the fact that as they pursue their primary and secondary education, few American youths ever come into contact with a practicing engineer or scientist. It is indicative of that local nonprominence that a few years ago at a meeting of American university presidents and the presidents of seven Chinese universi ties, the US representatives were a Renaissance scholar, an economist, a political scientist, a linguist, a lawyer, and a mechanical engineer, and the Chinese delegation constituted of six physicists and an engineer."
Posted by: bernarda | May 10, 2008 5:26 AM