APS meetings are great for showcasing science – the MiniBooNE result, top charge, gravity probe B – and for relating science and society. I’m at a discussion of Sputnik’s influence on US science education. It is astounding how a single trigger event can spur a President and a nation to work with scientists to revamp US science education. Did you know the dept. of ed. only became a cabinet position in 1980? Wild.
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