I Agree, Along With Carl Sagan, That

We Need More Concept-development And Active Involvement, Less Tuning Forks, Pulleys, And Friction Formulas - Students Know They'll Never Use Those. They Need More Study Of Outer Space And Dna. They Need More Exciting Teaching, More Fair-minded Encouragement, More Career Guidance, More Mentorship. Both Students And Teachers Need More Feedback. It Would Help If We Stopped Protecting Bad Teachers - It's Very Difficult To Get Rid Of Even Sexual Perverts Let Alone Just Bad Teachers.

In Fact, All Of Us Have A Piece Of Chernobyl In Our Bodies Going Back To 1986.

... Each Of The 24 Modes In The Ramanujan Function Corresponds To A Physical Vibration Of A String. Whenever The String Executes Its Complex Motions In Space-time By Splitting And Recombining, A Large Number Of Highly Sophisticated Mathematical Identities Must Be Satisfied. These Are Precisely The Mathematical Identities Discovered By Ramanujan.

Sooner Or Later, We Will Face A Catastrophic Threat From Space. Of All The Possible Threats, Only A Gigantic Asteroid Hit Can Destroy The Entire Planet. If We Prepare Now, We Better Our Odds Of Survival. The Dinosaurs Never Knew What Hit Them.

Scientists Who Have Dedicated Their Lives To Building Machines That Think, Feel That It's Only A Matter Of Time Before Some Form Of Consciousness Is Captured In The Laboratory.