{"id":9990,"date":"2015-03-31T11:54:11","date_gmt":"2015-03-31T15:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/?p=9990"},"modified":"2015-03-31T11:54:11","modified_gmt":"2015-03-31T15:54:11","slug":"stem-is-not-an-alien-menace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2015\/03\/31\/stem-is-not-an-alien-menace\/","title":{"rendered":"STEM Is Not an Alien Menace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Everybody and their extended families has been sharing around <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/why-stem-wont-make-us-successful\/2015\/03\/26\/5f4604f2-d2a5-11e4-ab77-9646eea6a4c7_story.html\">the Fareed Zakaria piece on liberal education<\/a>. This, as you might imagine, is relevant to my interests. So I wrote up a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/chadorzel\/2015\/03\/31\/science-is-essentially-human-or-why-better-stem-education-isnt-a-threat-to-humanity\/\">response over at Forbes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The basic argument of the response is the same thing I&#8217;ve been relentlessly flogging around here for a few years: that while I&#8217;m all for a broad education, the notion that studying a STEM subject and studying &#8220;the human condition&#8221; are in opposition or even cleanly separable is just foolish. But it&#8217;s a great excuse to start that argument at Forbes, so&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everybody and their extended families has been sharing around the Fareed Zakaria piece on liberal education. This, as you might imagine, is relevant to my interests. So I wrote up a response over at Forbes. The basic argument of the response is the same thing I&#8217;ve been relentlessly flogging around here for a few years:&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2015\/03\/31\/stem-is-not-an-alien-menace\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">STEM Is Not an Alien Menace<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,13,28,11,82,75,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academia","category-education","category-politics","category-science","category-socialscience","category-society","category-two_cultures","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9990\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}