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RE: Electronics for Physicists /To Mark and Brian


Is there any interest among members of this list for talking about the
psychology of why young folks choose a technical carreer?

Or of trying to identify those youth types that should choose such a
career.

Or what can be done to bend a youth towards a career in science.

Or is the list limited mainly to the nuts and bolts of science?

Is it customary to answer members questions, and make comments, on the
list, or should such commmunications be carried on privately so as not
to load the list mailbox down?

Bill - From a little town in Arkansas

Bill:
You might check to see if the report, "They're not dumb...just different."
by Sheila Tobias is still available from the Science Service. The Science
Service is the outfit in DC which produces Science News. Don't have a URL
or phone number readily available, but I bet Yahoo can find it for you.

Dewey

(Please note the new exchange "426" in the phone numbers.)
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Dewey I. Dykstra, Jr. Phone: (208)426-3105
Professor of Physics Dept: (208)426-3775
Department of Physics/MCF421/418 Fax: (208)426-4330
Boise State University dykstrad@bsumail.idbsu.edu
1910 University Drive Boise Highlanders
Boise, ID 83725-1570 novice piper: GHB, Uillean

"Physical concepts are the free creations of the human mind and
are not, however it may seem, uniquely determined by the external
world."--A. Einstein in The Evolution of Physics with L. Infeld,
1938.
"Every [person's] world picture is and always remains a construct
of [their] mind and cannot be proved to have any other existence."
--E. Schrodinger in Mind and Matter, 1958.
"Don't mistake your watermelon for the universe." --K. Amdahl in
There Are No Electrons, 1991.
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