News from Around the World

I just noticed this item.

Interesting piece from John Naughton this morning, commenting on a finding that a fifth of our US cousins think the sun goes around the earth. The original article talks about other gaps in US science knowledge and worries that Americans can’t follow debates about cloning or evolution. Well if they want to believe the world came into being 6000 years ago as apposed to the 4500 million, let them. I’m not too worried about a 100 million Americans with the wrong ideas about how the world came into existence. What I am worried about is that the strongest country in the world is not signing up to the Kyoto agreement because its inhabitants mostly couldn’t tell you the difference between a warm front and global warming. And global warming affects all 6500 million of us on this planet.

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