Report Claims: 70% of Science Award Finalists Are Children of Immigrants

Stephanie Pappas, LiveScience Senior Writer,
LiveScience.com Stephanie Pappas, Livescience Senior Writer

Immigration is a boon to American science and math, a new report asserts, noting that 70 percent of the finalists in a recent prestigious science competition are the children of immigrants.

The report by the National Foundation for American Policy, a nonprofit research group in Arlington, Va., states that many immigrant parents emphasize hard science and math education for [...]

A Joke For May 22 Courtesy of Mickey Rair

In Texas there is a town called New Braunfels, where there is a large German-speaking population.

One day, a local rancher driving down a country road noticed a man using his hand to drink water from the rancher’s stock pond. The rancher rolled down the window and shouted: “Sehr angenehm!

Trink das wasser nicht. Die kuhen haben dahin gesheissen.” Which means: (“Glad to [...]