A Few Factoids from Rising Above the Gathering Storm, Revisited: Rapidly Approaching Category 5 from the National Academy of Sciences:
- Thirty years ago, ten percent of California’s general fund went to higher education and three percent to prisons. Today, nearly eleven percent goes to prisons and eight percent to higher education.1
- China is now second in the world in its publication of biomedical research articles, having recently surpassed Japan, the United Kingdom, Germany, Italy, France, Canada and Spain.2
- The United States now ranks 22nd among the world’s nations in the density of broadband Internet penetration and 72nd in the density of mobile telephony subscriptions.3
- In 2009, 51 percent of United States patents were awarded to non-United States companies.4
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