{"id":1464,"date":"2012-01-13T22:02:36","date_gmt":"2012-01-14T02:02:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flascience.org\/wp\/?p=1464"},"modified":"2012-01-13T22:09:24","modified_gmt":"2012-01-14T02:09:24","slug":"the-importance-of-s-t-e-m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=1464","title":{"rendered":"The Importance of S T E M"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Astrophysicist <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Neil_deGrasse_Tyson\">Neil de Grasse Tyson<\/a> discusses the importance of STEM education\u00c2\u00a0and it&#8217;s influence on the future of the US economy.\u00c2\u00a0There are some great lines <a href=\"http:\/\/videosift.com\/video\/Neil-deGrasse-Tyson-We-need-engineers\">in this video<\/a>. Tyson argues that the lack of STEM education in America could seriously harm our ability to keep pace with the rest of the world and ultimately\u00c2\u00a0destroy our economy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Astrophysicist Neil de Grasse Tyson discusses the importance of STEM education\u00c2\u00a0and it&#8217;s influence on the future of the US economy.\u00c2\u00a0There are some great lines in this video. Tyson argues that the lack of STEM education in America could seriously harm &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=1464\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcZNLl-nC","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1166,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=1166","url_meta":{"origin":1464,"position":0},"title":"Neil deGrasse Tyson in Tampa","author":"Brandon Haught","date":"February 20, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Mark your calendars for Feb. 25. 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