A Rhodes Scholar. Earning this distinction means one has obtained one of the oldest international fellowship awards.
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Do you believe in magic?
When will we have enough smarts in the government to allow us to start performing stem cell research? Real stem cells, not engineered ones. Ones that will let us truly help our sick, our maimed, our hurt citizens?
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The gift that keeps on giving
You know I write often about the fact that our government has been attriting its support for R&D. Maybe if we could demonstrate to the politicians in terms they could understand (ok, in complete sentences- we can only hope some understand that) we could reverse this terrible trend. After all, without R&D, a nation’s economic prowess simply withers. As they say around MIT, the biggest day for technology transfer is graduation day.
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Gender Equality and Our Children
We always knew that the real life examples we provide are what really teach our kids. Sometimes, our examples are what they want to emulate. Sometimes, it’s the opposite of what they hope to see. Now, it turns out that fathers sharing household duties are critical factors in the raising of daughters.
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This song still seems to be true.
Things have certainly changed. And, not for the better. Last week, I ran a series about wages in America. (I also have a Kindle and a paperback with even more such thoughts available for your reading pleasure.) Corporations are not paying living wages, expecting the middle class to subsidize their profits by providing the funds for food stamps, welfare, and Medicaid for their low-paid staff. It is obvious this is true, since the middle class and the lower class provide more than 1/2 the total federal receipts, with corporations barely providing 10%.
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