RDEAN, do you believe in global warming?

Earth’s climate has changed. It’s dynamic and is always changing. We have historical proof of that. North polor ice caps are almost gone. Greenland glaciers are receding (whether that due to suspected global warming or the rise of magma under the ground, who knows?).
We need more study. Unfortunately, under this administration, nearly every top scientist has quit. This has been reported in science and engineering magazines for over the last 6 years. It seems they have been threatened by this administration to change their date to match administration policy.

I’m not familiar with “project runway.” My son’s real love is music, but he realizes that it’s quite difficult to make a living as a performer, and he doesn’t think he could deal with young children well enough to teach. I’ve been encouraging to look at music technology, which would combine his interest in music and science.

Tell him to check out engineering. It’s like “project runway”. Designing equipment that people build and sell. You get to walk around it and say, I designed this and all those people built it. You end up supporting hundreds of working families. If you get a job in the right place, you are incredibly well respected.

there was little one could do with pure math without advanced degrees

If you can get through ten hours of Calculus and at least three more of Differential Linear Equations, you could become an actuary. Depending on the job, they travel and meet all kinds of people. They basically figure out insurance policy rates.

I realize now that I probably could have enjoyed a career in science. (I have my doubts about math; my sister got a degree in math from RPI, but discovered there was little one could do with pure math without advanced degrees - today she is happily employed as a proofreader for a company that produces educational films.)

My 15-year-old son is in much the same position I was. He gets all A’s, but hasn’t heard of any type of career that particularly attracts him. He likes science well enough, but doesn’t have my husband’s passion for it.

That is certainly part of the truth. If you watch movies in the thirties and forties, smart children were portrayed as “geeks”, just like today.

In the fifties, the Soviet Union put a satellite in orbit over the US. This caused an uproar in the US. The country was in danger. Everyone wanted his or her son or daughter to be a scientist. If you watch old episodes of “Leave it to Beaver” or “Father Knows Best”, or even movies, the kids always had a “Science Fair” project. Scientists in the movies were young, handsome and virile.

The US became the world leaders of technology.

That lead is slipping away.

Flash forward to now. You have those that want to add “supernatural” to the definition of “science”. When scientists talk about the possibility of “global warming” they are called liars or laughed at for not having all the answers. They are given names like geek and nerd.

And yet, whom do people look towards for solving the world’s problems. They may “pray” to some mysterious and unseen God. But they expect “answers from scientists and when the answers can’t be provided, they get angry.

I’d like to see it but no examples are provided. I do see a lot of what is described in the paragraph before.

If your child is not challenged in school, whatever that may be, there is a problem.