17 MAY 2012 by ideonexus

 Engineering Requires Science

Engineering is quite different from science. Scientists try to understand nature. Engineers try to make things that do not exist in nature. Engineers stress invention. To embody an invention the engineer must put his idea in concrete terms, and design something that people can use. That something can be a device, a gadget, a material, a method, a computing program, an innovative experiment, a new solution to a problem, or an improvement on what is existing. Since a design has to be concrete, ...
Folksonomies: science engineering
Folksonomies: science engineering
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Science passively observes, but Engineering must discover what it needs in order to make progress.

27 JUL 2011 by ideonexus

 No Commercial Product is Shown to Improve Baby Cognitive ...

Believe it or not, no commercial product has ever been shown in a scientifically responsible manner (or even in an irresponsible non-scientific manner) to do anything to improve the brain performance of a developing fetus. There have been no double-blind, randomized experiments whose independent variable was the presence or absence of the gadget. No rigorous studies showing that an in utero education curriculum produced long-term academic benefits when the child entered high school. No tw...
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There is no research supporting any product doing anything.