“I asked an American why the US produced and hosted so many legendary physicists / mathematicians” is actually something we should be asking more often
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And a big part of the answer is, because so many fled fascism in Europe in the 1930s and 1940 and emigrated to the US. Hans Bethe, Albert Einstein, Niels Bohr, Enrico Fermi, Emilio Segrè, Eugene Wigner. Scientists are already feeling the US. This is our future:
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More direct to ask “do you know what ‘per capita’ means?”
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I don’t think it’s just a per capita thing
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I know this one! The US was really afraid of space communism we decided we needed to reform education towards producing more scientists and engineers
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I genuinely believe America would be a better place if the Soviet Union was still around. They forced America to try to be a functional state that took care of its people as a matter of pride.
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