That's right. The United States is still #1 in Science. U.S. still educates and then keeps non US Citizens. U.S. still accounts for half of all inventions.The U.S. remains the world's science and technology leader, but other countries are gaining ground, the National Science Board said Friday in its biennial report on science and engineering.
The U.S. accounted for nearly a third of $1.1 trillion spent on research and development globally in 2007, minted more science and engineering doctorates than any other country, and led the world in innovative activity. Efforts by China and other developing Asian countries to boost their science and engineering capabilities are bearing fruit, however, and the gap between them and the U.S., though still wide, is narrowing.
For the 10 years ending in 2007, the most recent year for which the data were available, spending on research and development grew between 5% and 6% annually in the U.S., Japan and the European Union. Similar spending in India, South Korea and Taiwan grew an average 9% to 10% a year over the same period. In China, it averaged more than 20%.
The U.S. awarded 22,500 doctorates in natural sciences and engineering in 2007, but more than half of them were awarded to foreign nationals. Past experience suggests that rather than return to their native countries, many of those new Ph.D.s will stay in the U.S.
The report noted that 60% of temporary visa holders who earned doctorates in science in engineering in 1997 were working in the U.S. in 2007. The National Science Board is the advisory body of the National Science Foundation, an independent U.S. government agency.
U.S. researchers published about a quarter of an estimated 760,000 research articles in peer-reviewed journals in 2008. Chinese researchers published 8% of the research articles, up from just 1% in 1988.
Despite China's strides, researchers in China accounted for only about 1% of U.S. patents granted in 2008. Inventive activity in China "appears elusive, at least as indicated by patents filed in a major Western market," despite Chinese government efforts, the report noted.
U.S.-based inventors accounted for 49% of patents granted, down from 55% in 1995.
And lets see...who's giving the most in the Haiti relief? What other countries sent an Aircaft carrier over to help out?
U.S. is flying doctors and food to Haiti in massive earthquake relief effort
Hundreds of American firefighters continue search-and-rescue operations as Washington officials prepare to shift their focus to longer-term aid.
The White House has committed $100 million in U.S. aid.
Once again, the U.S. leads in both Science and Humanitarian efforts. No one else even comes close.U.S. officials said that 180 tons of relief supplies had been delivered to the Port-au-Prince airport.
STFU haters! We do this despite the huge commitment of troops in Afghanistan, trying to liberate women from severe oppression.
Shut...the...fuck...up you whiny non Americans and start contributing!* In 2006, Americans gave $295 billion to charity, up 4.2 percent from the previous year.
* Charitable donations have consistently risen faster than the GDP since World War II.
* Per capita, the people in the United States are perhaps the most generous in the world, as measured by what they give.
* In 1995, Americans gave three-and-a-half times more than the French, seven times more than the Germans, and fourteen times more than the Italians.
* Only a third of Americans itemize deductions on their tax returns. Research consistently shows that almost no one is motivated to give only because of their tax consequences.
* Those who donate to charity are three times as likely to give money informally to friends, and even strangers. And they are twice as likely to donate blood.
According to the Hudson Institute, individual Americans, through private charities, gave $242 billion in 2004.
Stossel cited the tsunami tragedy that struck Indonesia a few years ago. Whereas the U.S. government gave $900 million to relief efforts, individual Americans gave $2 billion in food, clothing and cash.
The fact is, when you combine government and private giving, America is the most generous country on Earth