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Forum: Education, entaglement, epiphany. Furedi, Maniscalco, Anam 21 Nov 09

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Sociologist Frank Furedi argues that Western society has now become so uncomfortable with the idea of parents and teachers having authority over young people that we are failing to educate our children properly. Physicist Sabrina Maniscalco explains her work aimed at overcoming one of the main obstacles to practical quantum computing: the very quick collapse of the delicate entaglement atom state which is required to perform quantum computations. Author Tahmima Anam examines the divide...

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