Showing posts with label science education. Show all posts
Showing posts with label science education. Show all posts

Tuesday, June 8, 2010

Exploratory Science

While we're on the topic of supporting education, I thought I'd also post this TED Talk by Brian Cox. He is a physicist from CERN who is also a voicebox in the UK on explaining physics to folks.

It makes the point that the cost of exploratory science is... priceless:


"...for every $1 spent on the Apollo program, $14 came back..."