Basics - STEM Education Has Little to Do With Flowers - NYTimes.com

[ADSGarson O'Toole]

Barry lists early citations for the term STEM on his website for those
who are interested:

Short link:  http://bit.ly/1kpJVyu

Long link:  http://www.barrypopik.com/index.php/new_york_city/entry/stem_science_technology_engineering_math/

On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 3:03 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu> wrote:
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> "Everybody who knows what it means knows what it means, and everybody else doesn’t," said Eric Lander, co-chairman of the president’s advisory council and head of the Broad Institute of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University.
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> That's kind of the way it works with words, no?
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> LH
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> On May 20, 2014, at 11:48 AM, victor steinbok wrote:
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>> Another anti-initialism/acronym diatribe on NYT pages. In this case, it
>> mostly focuses on one--"STEM Education". I find the argument not
>> particularly persuasive--it's the same tired complaint about opaqueness of
>> jargon abbreviations (the target happens to be my primary field, so it
>> doesn't really bother me at all).
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>> But there's a nice Sally Ride quote:
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>>> Sally Ride concurred: "With my NASA heritage, I'm perfectly capable of
>> speaking entirely in acronyms, including the verbs," she said. "But this is
>> not very helpful when talking to the public."
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>> The story is here http://nyti.ms/LxpbAT
>> Or use the single-page link  http://goo.gl/5nbTcK
>>
>> VS-)
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