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"Abstract. We find that graduates from subjects such as science, engineering, and medicine are strongly overrepresented among Islamist movements in the Muslim world... We also find that engineers alone are strongly over-represented among graduates in violent groups... Do engineers have a 'mindset' that makes them a particularly good match for Islamism..."

I suggest printing out the entire 90 pages and using it as bathroom material - not necessarily for reading.

The General Relativity Einstein/Essen Anniversary Test was conducted in September of 2005 by Daniel Kleppner and his kids. They took several very accurate cesium atomic clocks from home and parked 5,400 feet up Mt. Rainier for a full two days. The goal was to see if the clocks actually gained time as predicted by Einstein's general theory of relativity. Gravity at 5,400 feet is less (by about 0.1%) than at home at 1,035 feet, and therefore the clocks should run 22 ns faster over the two days.

Did they? The plot to the left shows the results. Click on the image for full details.

Now: The IMF just warned that the West faces the largest financial shock since the Great Depression, while Asian economies (mainly China & India) are powering ahead. China spends 35x as much on crude oil as it did in year 2000, and 23x as much on copper. ½ of the world's new buildings are being built in China. As it builds endless rows of skyscrapers on former farm lands, China consumes ½ the world's cement and a 1/3 of its steel.