Modern medicine is just amazing

[perrykneeham]

Arts need to be self-supporting. It's just fingerpainting, making silly noises and showing off. If you can do that stuff, great. Good luck to you. If you can make a few quid at it, so much the better.

[voice]

Arts funding is a trivial amount when compared to the various corporate welfare doled out by the gov, farm subsidies ext

[perrykneeham]

Many a mickle makes a muckle, Yorkie.

[flatandy]

Arts education, though, is not as important as science education. Because lots of annoying teenagers want to be pop musicians and film stars and youtube tarts and so on. There's no need to put in extra work and spend extra money to encourage it because demand is low and supply is high and kids don't think it's hard work and aren't scared of it. That's what STEM is about. It's hard, and it's uncool, and it's symbiotic - Science and Maths and Engineering and Technology are all fundamentally interlinked and interpretive street dancing is not interlinked to that. STEM education is about making sure kids are encouraged in the difficult but important stuff and that they actually get educated in it and go on to get jobs in it. The supply of engineering graduates is too low. The supply of aspiring soap opera extras isn't.

[Repat Van]

Aug 12, 2021 16:49:21 GMT rick49 said:

China's Eating Our STEM Field Lunch, But at Least There's 'Ecofeminism'

"America used to be a tough place where people knew — with regard to the big world — competition was the name of the game."

"Is that still the case?"

This month, Georgetown University’s Center for Security and Emerging Technology embedded the results succinctly in its title: “China is Fast Outpacing U.S. STEM PhD Growth.”

cset.georgetown.edu/publication/china-is-fast-outpacing-u-s-stem-phd-growth/

Since the mid-2000s, CSET notes, China’s “consistently produced more STEM doctorates than the United States.”

“While it is possible that the growing supply of STEM PhDs in China exceeds current labor market demand,” CSET concedes, “the quality and quantity of a country’s doctoral graduates is an important indicator of its future competitiveness, and China’s capacity to produce skilled PhD-level STEM experts appears to be growing rapidly.”

"While the Red Dragon invests in the future via STEM, American education has other priorities:

"College Students Can Look Forward to Courses in ‘Ecofeminism,’ ‘Community Activism’ and ‘Queer Desires’"

redstate.com/alexparker/2021/08/05/college-students-can-look-forward-to-courses-in-ecofeminism-community-activism-and-queer-desires-n421607

"University Hires Social Justice Center to Help Top Staff Embrace ‘White Inferiority’"

redstate.com/alexparker/2021/08/12/chinas-eating-our-stem-field-lunch-but-at-least-theres-ecofeminism-n425111

but will the students be able to read the courses?

That just means more of your young people have less interested in STEM as they can make a living in other areas. I guess if this concerns you, you should be happy about the work feminists are doing to get more girls / women into STEM.


Edit.

Scratch that. I read the intro:

“
This paper compares the STEM PhD pipelines of the United States and China. We find that China has consistently produced more STEM doctorates than the United States since the mid-2000s, and that the gap between the two countries will likely grow wider in the next five years. Based on current enrollment patterns, we project that by 2025 Chinese universities will produce more than 77,000 STEM PhD graduates per year compared to approximately 40,000 in the United States.”

“ If international students are excluded from the U.S. count, Chinese STEM PhD graduates would outnumber their U.S. counterparts more than three-to-one.”


Erm....do I need to state the obvious?

[rick49]

Erm....do I need to state the obvious?

that we're choking on communist china's dust? but that's ok cause we be woke. our high school students can graduate without knowing how to read or write. beat that china!

[Repat Van]

Aug 12, 2021 23:17:37 GMT rick49 said:

Erm....do I need to state the obvious?

that we're choking on communist china's dust? but that's ok cause we be woke. our high school students can graduate without knowing how to read or write. beat that china!

Nope.

Try again.

[mids]

This is big. Huge.

"The RTS,S vaccine, also known as Mosquirix, was developed by the British pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), and has been administered to more than 800,000 children in Ghana, Kenya and Malawi since the pilot programme began in 2019.

The vaccine, which went through lengthy clinical trials, has limited efficacy, preventing 39% of malaria cases and 29% of severe malaria cases among small children in Africa over four years of trials.

However, in August a study led by the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) found that when young children were given both the RTS,S and antimalarial drugs there was a 70% reduction in hospitalisation or death."

www.theguardian.com/global-development/2021/oct/06/who-endorses-use-of-worlds-first-malaria-vaccine-in-africa

[Minge är en jävla besserwisser]

Has Macron approved it yet?

[mids]

If he does, he'll be stealing the vaccines from Little African Children before you can say Jacques Robespierre.

[flatandy]

That’s excellent news. Also very impressive that they’re getting the vaccine regimen to work with 4 shots going in.

30% reductions in infection aren’t going to eliminate the disease, but they are going save hundreds of thousands of lives.,

[mids]

And all because of Boostering Boris's Bloody Brilliant Brexit Britain.

[ootlg]

Oct 7, 2021 10:31:43 GMT mids said:

If he does, he'll be stealing the vaccines from Little African Children before you can say Jacques Robespierre.

Four syllables longer actually - Maximilien (Robespierre)

[voice]

This is interesting, bit like Futurama. Gonna vex many though.

ASSISTED-SUICIDE CHAMBER APPROVED BY AUTHORITIES IN SWITZERLANDTHE CHAMBER ALLOWS PATIENTS TO KILL THEMSELVES AT THE PRESS OF A BUTTON.

futurism.com/neoscope/assisted-suicide-chamber-switzerland

[happyhammerhead]

That's looks so cool and streamlined, like it should be a really fast Bumper car.

[perrykneeham]

Bump-off car.

[unclejunior]

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[flatandy]

A few things to take issue with, there, although the point that it possibly being mild would be incredibly good news:

1 - she says all the cases are mild. But she also says that all the cases she's seen are in young men. Which might mean that "mild" is a feature of the sample group rather than the disease

2 - it appears to have got around previous acquired immunity, so suggesting that it's going to be great for getting herd immunity seems a little weird

3 - the UK imposing tighter mask-wearing rules seems to be vital anyway, regardless of omicron, so that's one positive side-benefit

4 - reacting quickly before we know how bad it is is actually a positive thing. Waiting until we know it's really, really bad before shutting down travel would seem to be daft.

[mids]

A colleagues 14 year old son was taken to hospital with suspected testicular torsion today. Poor kid.

[Repat Van]

Dec 7, 2021 17:02:59 GMT unclejunior said:

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The British and European response to this is to be expected (because it’s founded on racism which is their default position).

That’s evidenced in placing Nigeria on the red list but not so many other European countries with higher numbers.

It’s also evidenced by a lot of the newspaper headlines (the depiction of the average South African traveller to Europe is bizarre) as is the idea that SA is being punished for merely identifying a strain that already was seen in Europe.

Ho hum.