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TIL that Australian scientists accidentally developed pain-free blood sugar testing for diabetics while working on solar cells. (www.reuters.com)

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[–] Eheran@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Liberal arts for STEM degrees? Where?

[–] grue@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Literally every accredited degree program. Were you not aware that engineering degrees have writing, arts, and social studies as part of their "core" requirements (typically taken freshman and sophomore year)?

[–] Eheran@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago

Engineer here, no, did not know. Seems like that is not the same everywhere. I also doubt that you can teach adults to be this kind of creative, let alone those that specifically choose a field where they do not need that.

[–] bomibantai@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago

Dartmouth College, the ivy League one, requires engineering degrees to be done in 5 years and as a liberal arts college there's a good chunk of the prereqs being humanities