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Tide of International Science Moving Against US, EU
explosivejared writes "The Economist has a story on the increasing scientific productivity of countries like China, India, and Brazil relative to the field's old guards in America, Europe, and Japan. Scientific productivity in this sense includes percent of GDP spent on R&D and the overall numbers of researchers, scholarly articles, and patents that a country produces. The article notes increasing levels of international collaboration on scholarly scientific articles in leading journals. From the article: '[M]ore than 35% of articles in leading journals are now the product of international collaboration. That is up from 25% 15 years ago — something the old regime and the new alike can celebrate.'" Note that the "old guard" are still firmly in the lead on these measures of scientific prowess, but the growth rate is higher in the newcomer states.
A legitimate critique of Palin would be that she considered Russia being visible from an island of Alaska, as saying something useful about her international experience and foreign relations.
Since when has the truth actually mattered, especially to a Republican?
The conservative fuckers still like about Al Gore saying he invented the Internet.
The biggest problem I see with the Democrats is they aren't willing to fight the conservative fuckers on their own terms, that's why they lost congress. They didn't use scare tactics and lie hard enough.
And nothing is going to change my mind about the lying Republicans and Teabaggers, not till the likes of Rupert Murdoch, Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, and Sarah Palin are all living in homeless shelters.
If someone is passing you on the right, you are an asshole for driving in the wrong lane.
No, they don't. Just in China, India, Brazil, and maybe a few others. Sudan, Somalia, Myanmar, et cetera, are staying in exactly the same place. It's more like, "Fallow fields that aren't drenched in blood."
only true if you ask a dune coon. they can whine all they want. the damned towelheads just picked the wrong country to fuck with when they attacked the USA on 9/11.
Yep. Call me a nazi, but your command of the English language gives you away. At least, it seems your line is physical sciences, so it doesn't matter that much. No, I'm not a (grammar) nazi; my native tongue isn't English neither. But your writing is effectively showing a significant lack of linguistic concepts in your writing style.