For their own economic vitality, states must put in place policies that help workers get retrained with STEM skills, offer incentives to students to master STEM knowledge, and focus on the pipeline -- beginning in elementary school -- to create a robust supply of STEM-adept citizens.
Considering that the Slovenians are quite adept at badass, citizen-driven revolutions, the government might want to be wary of just how many budget cuts they make, lest they want a mini-Greece springing up in Central Europe.
In this age of tea parties and Sean Hannity, however, citizens have become adept at spotting surreptitious forms of taxation, and, in Republican districts upstate, clerks like Frank Merola, of Rensselaer County, are staging a revolt, collecting thousands of signatures in opposition to the move, and starting Web sites like Nonewplates.com and Stopnewplates.com.
But thanks to what I like to call the "People Powered Media that Fuels Sanders Second American Revolution," tens of millions of citizens have become adept at sharing accurate information across their own social networks―without corporate media gatekeepers.
What of the claim that mathematics sharpens our minds and makes us more intellectually adept as individuals and a citizen body?
Or the citizens of Karhide, technologically adept but almost medieval in spirit, refusing to heat their homes, foregoing speed in their vehicles.
The idea of government as an adept and awe-inspiring problem solver that treats citizens the way companies like Apple and Google treat customers was yet another leitmotif.
Karri believes that as an Indian national he will be particularly adept at guiding OI India towards successfully raising 'global citizens' in India.
But she seems personally offended by those "citizens of modernity, consumers of violence as spectacle, adepts of proximity without risk" who "will do anything to keep themselves from being moved".
We built a cyber-infrastructure support system for citizen science programs (www.citsci.org) and show that carefully designed systems can be adept enough to support programs at multiple spatial and temporal scales across many domains when built with a flexible architecture.
