US Losing its Scientific Dominance

ScaredSilly writes "The New York Times is reporting that the US is losing its dominance in the sciences. They cite lowering research budgets, increased military spending and 'reverse brain-drain': fewer techies staying in the US after school. I personally think that our comparatively crappy K-12 educational system, and an increased dominance of military research over core scientific research plays a big role. (It's easy to get DARPA, DoD and DoE funding, but difficult to get NSF funding). What do you folks think?"

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Re:From a teacher

[Rinikusu]

An interesting observation:
While you mention how much time you spend teaching your child, notice the large number of posts bitching about people not wanting to work 60 hour weeks and what not. I imagine there's a lot of software programmers out there who would love to spend their time with their families and their children, but because "Joe Slashdot" sets the standard at their company and the 60 hour work week is expected, don't get to. Not only that, but they are derided by their peers as being lazy for wanting to put something like their family first.

This isn't a critique of your argument, just an observation I just made reading through the comments.. :)