Rhett Allain (@rjallain)
1/28/12 7:02 AM
Are physics AP courses like the nuclear arms race? bit.ly/x9BEPo (from@occam98)
rjallain @occam98 @monk51295 what if we build a "star wars" AP defense system?
Some very competitive high school students feel like they are locked in some life or death struggle with nameless competitors for precious few places at the “good” colleges (I plan to blog more on what a bogus notion it is that there are “good” colleges). And this plays out much like the drama of the Cold War. Just like the US during the height of the Cold War, we didn’t understand the struggle we were in, or the enemy we were competing with, yet we still felt the need to stockpile ever more powerful and useless nuclear weapons in the hopes of deterrence. ...
john burk - are you spearheading this global physcis dept?
