Today was my first science, technology and public policy class... We didn't get into anything too serious because it was only the first day, but here is what I learned from the intro to the class:
The 'war on cancer' was started in 1971 by President Nixon.
President Lincoln patented a machine for lifting sunken barges. This makes him the only president to have a patent (hint hint, Obama).
President Carter was a nuclear physicist.
In 1840, an act (sorry, can't find the name) created state universities... Which are all technical colleges oriented at creating a technical force, as opposed to liberal arts colleges, which are popular in Europe, because they create a more well-rounded population.
Barbed wire was very important in the settlement of the west because it contained/ kept out cattle.
Science accounts for as much as 50% of US economic growth over the past 50 years.
Automobiles were originally thought to be the solution to cities' pollution problems, because they don't create the piles of... waste... in the streets that horses do.
Yay! I beat Elliot tonight!
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