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This Is What Happens When Legislators Don't Learn Science in School

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wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam7/03/2014 8:22:36 pm PDT

re: #394 jaunte

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This is almost short enough for a complementary response meme:

These are lessons that China has learned from. Their investment in education is not as intensive as the USA’s, because their population is so much greater*, but the government is spending billions on high speed rail and highways to knit the country together (and make it easier to mobilize troops). Electrification is nearly completely done.

* More than 9 million high school seniors took the college entrance exam last month.