I work in academia teaching technology and supporting research. The students I work with have a lot of hope and enthusiasm. As research assistants they work on things like polymers for biomedical applications, novel solar cell materials to make solar energy cheap AF, battery technologies, novel polymers for water filtration, super hard and wear resistant composites inspired by bone and teeth. Some of them wind up their own start-ups even as students, or shortly there-after.
I wish people would stop characterizing academia in this politicized fashion. I've yet to see politics, race, economics, gender ever come up in the labs. It's just not a thing. I think largely because we're an international group of people, from a wide array of backgrounds. All we want to do is research and invent things.
includes pure and applied math, computer science, all the natural and physical sciences, nursing, medicine, and all the disciplines of engineering.
That's because those subjects largely deal with logic and facts. I think that modern progressivism has infiltrated most academic fields to some extent though.
I think that modern progressivism has infiltrated most academic fields to some extent though.
This is what I keep hearing.
I'm curious in what ways progressivism might impact what we do in the lab?
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@CopperCicada I don't think it would impact anything in a lab per se, but it may influence what students get accepted for that degree by that university. In the past few decades there has been an interest in getting more females to study science subjects. Many workplaces now have a 50/50 ratio approach (or an actual requirement for it) and this is reflected in many fields of study.
truth and liberal never belong in the same sentence
... he said, putting them in the same sentence. Are you sure you understand what that word 'never' means?? LOL!!! Or is it the concept of 'sentence' that's giving you trouble??? ROTFL!!!
Dude, saying "gender uncertainty" is so cringe. This sounds like you think trans people "don't know what gender they are," like the incels are always saying.
Don't know what you mean by "anti-business."
As for climate change, they don't teach that to make us think there's no hope, they teach us that so we can fix the problem before their actually is no hope.
🤔 I can only speak for my particular little corner of the world, but my kiddo’s school curriculum is definitely ‘hope+action oriented’. My undergrad program and graduate program are also hope+action oriented. The media on the other hand is all ‘imminent doom commentary ’, so I can only plug into that so much before I have to take a break.
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Academia has definitely been successful in making people more stupid and less able to apply critical thought. As for the media, that's just a joke.
