On Sat, Mar 1, 2008 at 4:30 PM, John Grigg <<a href="mailto:possiblepaths2050@gmail.com">possiblepaths2050@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div>I am mytified by the low numbers for Israel. I realize they have a vocal conservative population among them (as the U.S. does) but I thought on the whole it was a very technologically progressive nation. In fact, I've heard many anecdotes about how the typical Israeli is "adrift in a sea of modernity" and definitely not religiously devout. My take on Judaism (even the more orthodox and conservative forms) was that they would be much more open to "radical" biotech, etc. as compared to conservative American Evangelicals. Does anyone here know more about this matter? </div>
</blockquote><div><br>While I suspect that Israel has its own fair share of religious fundamentalists, and that opposition to H+ ideas may not be limited to the same, I know for instance that Israel has, or used to have, special schools for, and research programmes on, "superdotati" (specially-endowed? super-intelligent? high IQ?) children, where such things have been unthinkable in Europe, and AFAIK not exactly the most politically correct idea in the US either, for a long while. <br>
<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div></div></blockquote></div>Stefano Vaj<br>