I feel the need to comment on a war -- a war, I tell you! -- that has broken out on the Twitters. It all started when @JenLucPiquant put up a very thoughtful and important blog post at Cocktail Party Physics, about the importance of math education even for people who are not math-o-philes. Being the supportive spouse that I am, I took to Twitter to spread the word:
Sean Carroll @seanmcarroll Math is part of what makes us human. Don't withhold it from kids just because it's hard. http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cocktail-party-physics/2012/08/14/make-us-do-the-math/
The irrepressible Ed Yong, being helpful, forwarded the message to his own followers:
Ed Yong @edyong209 MT @seanmcarroll: Maths is part of what makes us human. Don't withhold it from kids just because it's hard. http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cocktail-party-physics/2012/08/14/make-us-do-the-math/
Notice the sneaky move here. In Twitterland, "RT" stands for "retweet," where you simply pass along someone else's thought unmolested. "MT," on the other ...
