There is a big difference between does the degree help you get jobs and does it do anything to make you a whole person. I don't have a degree and was lucky to be able to work my way up in a very large company so HR never got to look at my resume. However if you wanted my job today HR wouldn't let you past to get interviewed without a degree and a decade of experience. No one on my team that had a degree has one in Computer Science or anything like it, when we interview people with them they seem to lack all the real world knowledge that we need and end up just getting the guy with experience instead. My point here is that experience is far more important to your ability to do that job than any degree could ever be. So what degree's really do is get you past HR. If we as a people could come up with better ways to asses someones talents maybe we could get HR departments to stop sucking so bad.

It used to be that the co-pilot was there because it you needed to manhandle the plane in you needed all the strength you could get, then all the big planes started having hydraulic which meant it wasn't a matter of strength anymore but for redundancy of operators. Something happened to one they other one could fly the plane. Now from take off to landing a modern aircraft doesn't even need the pilot, they are just glorified equipment operators that require no more than a few days to lean how to setup and operate the computer. We keep a highly trained pilot as a redundant measure for the computers are board (Not a bad idea) but the co-pilot is not a redundant measure for a redundant measure. It's like having a spare gas tank for your spare gas tank.

I trust the computer to land the plane, They do it all the time now with the pilot and co-pilot just sitting there. What's the difference is there is one less dude sitting around collecting a paycheck. It used to be that the co-pilot was there because it you needed to manhandle the plane in you needed all the strength you could get, then all the big planes started having hydraulic which meant it wasn't a matter of strength anymore but for redundancy of operators. Something happened to one they other one could fly the plane. Now from take off to landing a modern aircraft doesn't even need the pilot, they are just glorified equipment operators that require no more than a few days to lean how to setup and operate the computer. We keep a highly trained pilot as a redundant measure for the computers are board (Not a bad idea) but the co-pilot is not a redundant measure for a redundant measure. It's like having a spare gas tank for your spare gas tank.

I am not going to say that no one is ever misdiagnosed but I think that economic models used here are not always the best predictors for medical issues and that studies like this have been used for years to try to cut funding for special education in public schools. It is honestly not that hard to tell the difference between an immature or young kid and one that has ADHD if you have some expertise with ADHD and I suspect if proper diagnoses was allowed by HMOs and PPOs there would be little problem. Having pretty bad dyslexia meant that I went to private school for kids with learning disabilities that did not effect ID (e.g. dyslexia, dysgraphia, dyscalculia, ADD and ADHD) and I have got to tell you that the idea that the ADHD and ADD kids don't have an issue other than just being immature is insulting, a gross misunderstanding of the problem, and something kids with learning disabilities have had to fight with for years.

1)Road has to be designed to support extra weight and have track system built in. 2)All overhead items, bridges, signs, lighting, etc have to be redesigned to allowed for something twice as tall as most buses. 3) No left or right turns can be done from the road or to the road without a traffic signal, so it can't be used on a highway but needs roads with few cross streets or the stop lights will bring traffic to a complete halt. It has more problems than a elevated train system, while using all the resources of a surface light rail system. They have taken the worst of both and put them together into one of the worst public transport system ideas I have ever seen.

I have always said that being an engineer (Programmer) is less about what you know and more about knowing how to look it up. I have been a system engineer for going on 20 years now and I still look up 90% of the stuff I do. I could muddle through many of the tasks but why would you do that when I can look it up, get it done faster and have a higher chance of success? I think you really hit the nail on the head with this testing people in isolation thing. It doesn't tell you anything about how well they work in groups, how quickly they can get through reference material (I would suggest that looking it up is my sharpest skill), thus not really telling you anything about problem solving in the real world. Testing doesn't show you anything, the worst engineers I have ever worked with had a list of certs as long as my arm. The best ones didn't have a cert or degree or anything.

It's a food scientist writing a blog about the food science work they do. As long as it was marked as paid content space I don't know what the big deal is. Hell even if it was not, it's just a blog page from a legitimate scientist doing legitimate work that millions of people enjoy every day. Would it been a problem if this scientist had written this blog and not paid for the space? Honestly people need to get over themselves, they might not like Pepsi but he is still doing science.