My parents, science postdocs who were often at the lab and were unversed in the delinquent world of the Sunset District, were upset about the lever, since we rented.
Sharing her husband's passionate interest in parenting, she has published articles in Medical Economics and Parenting: Science and Practice.
The "culture" vacuum in technology also impacts the way students' parents view science and engineering (decreasing the likelihood that parents will encourage their children to pursue such careers), and the importance and priority schools themselves may place on these disciplines, especially in underserved schools.
The National Science Foundation was closely involved, advising organizers — and emphasizing to parents — the science and the educational value behind each of the carefully chosen activities.
If parents see science and engineering jobs as good career options for their daughters, it follows that their daughters will too.
Many contestants, some with parents in science professions, said they were destined for science careers regardless, lending support to recent criticism that schools are wasting resources by investing heavily to groom winning student research projects.
Ten years on, angst is still front and center, but the important, mortifying elements of high school -- the cafeteria, parents' day, science experiments and make-up tests -- have almost entirely receded.
The thimerosal debate does not pit parents against science but against public health authorities who rely not on science but on the reputations of their agencies to exonerate thimerosal -- a mercury-containing preservative once used routinely in vaccines -- despite scientific proof that it causes brain disorders.
If so, it would seem that the contributions made by evolutionary game theory in this context simply are a proper part of the parent social science--sociology, anthropology, economics, and so on.
Better yet, start a parent-child science book and activities club.
