"The United States today has the finest scientists in the world and the worst science education in the world, or at least in the industrialized world," wrote Caltech physicist David Goodstein in "Burned By the Torch of Knowledge?," one of the very first essays Science's Next Wave ever published.
Yang also made great efforts to establish the very first Masters in Science program (Biology) and the very first PhD program (Ecology) in Tibet University.
In 1927, Fritz Lang's Metropolis — the very first feature-length science fiction film — told of a 2026 where the lower class workers power the technology for the upper class.
My very first course in politcal science at UC Berkelely taught me the importance of understanding the need for empirically based research and examining the biases and motivations of those conducting studies.
Instead, I'm going to take it slow and give you all of the gory details from my very first job as a science communication consultant.
Sometimes for the very first time they see that science really has a human heart.
"It was tremendously exciting to think that the Tlatilco artists appeared to be the very first to marry art with medical science," said Dr. Bendersky, who retired this year as professor of internal medicine at the MCP Hahnemann University School of Medicine in Philadelphia.
Agriculture, Jefferson said, "is a science of the very first order".
