Perhaps 'calibrated to women's level of interest' does not imply 'dumb down'. Rather, if women prefer life sciences to physical sciences, (for the sake of argument), universities may pressure departments in physical sciences to shift their research focus to things related to life sciences to attract women. It would indeed be sad if discipline boundaries were set by political expediency. This sort of thing already happens as physical sciences departments try to win life sciences students (and their tuition money) to physical science classes.
Google had to know when it bought YouTube that it was risking attracting a number of lawsuits, the Viacom one being only the first. You can bet if it's successful, the other media giants will be lining up to get their payouts, too. Using Google services is a privacy risk as long as its billions of dollars are attracting high powered lawsuits.
The retirement of the shuttle in favour of a space system based on the Apollo program should be a lesson for Nicolas Sarkozy as he tries to reform the ESA to give its missions "a political pilot" as well as a scientific one.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7482232.stm
The DynaSoar-Apollo-Shuttle-Orion saga illustrates how political motivations can be a hinderence to the development of effective spacecraft.
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Perhaps 'calibrated to women's level of interest' does not imply 'dumb down'. Rather, if women prefer life sciences to physical sciences, (for the sake of argument), universities may pressure departments in physical sciences to shift their research focus to things related to life sciences to attract women. It would indeed be sad if discipline boundaries were set by political expediency. This sort of thing already happens as physical sciences departments try to win life sciences students (and their tuition money) to physical science classes.
Google had to know when it bought YouTube that it was risking attracting a number of lawsuits, the Viacom one being only the first. You can bet if it's successful, the other media giants will be lining up to get their payouts, too. Using Google services is a privacy risk as long as its billions of dollars are attracting high powered lawsuits.
The retirement of the shuttle in favour of a space system based on the Apollo program should be a lesson for Nicolas Sarkozy as he tries to reform the ESA to give its missions "a political pilot" as well as a scientific one. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7482232.stm The DynaSoar-Apollo-Shuttle-Orion saga illustrates how political motivations can be a hinderence to the development of effective spacecraft.