The sun is setting on America, and I have this gloomy feeling that we're going to see a lot more articles like this: we don't need math, Engineering is dying career, college is overrated, it's better to just learn to work with your hands, etc. Maybe I'm jumping at shadows, but this is how I imagine things will go as our youth are converted into low cost portable labor.

Yeah, Mr.Wizard was great, I think Bill Nye and the folks at Mythbusters are the ones influencing kids these days.

They have probably forgotten that we engineered a coup to overthrow their democratically elected government and replaced it with a dictator. I doubt they'll still be mad about that. We should be safe! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Iranian_coup_d'%C3%A9tat

Need surgery? get a surgeon. Need your car fixed? get a mechanic. I'm glad to see Chu get the nod, I don't see a downside to truth and knowledge. If we fail to act on his advice, then that's our shortcoming, not his.