Republican Brain, Asteroid Mining, & U.S. Schools Killing Science? (The Point)

[ihavenobias]

Do liberals and conservatives have different brains? Is science in trouble in America? What is the point of 'asteroid mining'? Cara Santa Maria (senior science correspondent at The Huffington Post) leads this weeks panel to discuss these issues and more with PhD Tim Lee (scientist turned comedian), K.C. Cole (science writer, USC journalism professor), and Max Lugavere (filmmaker, musician, science journalist). Special thanks to Chris Mooney (author of 'The Republican Brain'), Linda Darling-Hammond (professor and author of 'The Flat World In Education'), and Phil Plait (The Bad Astronomy Blog) for sending in points.

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[mmonk]

1. Thanks. Recommended.

[ihavenobias]

2. I just realized I accidentally posted this in GD

instead of the video section...

[20score]

3. That was really insteresting. Great panel!

I'd be interested to find out how conservative verses liberal thinking is defined. There are lefties who think like righties, and vice versa. My guess is that there is a difference in the physical makeup of our brains, but that it wouldn't be with the classical definitions of conservative and liberal. There has to be many people in places like Mississippi that are self-identified conservatives who hold conservative ideals but think like liberals, and many in places such as Seattle who identify as liberal but who think like conservatives.

Cultural influences always fascinated me.