Alan Kaye seems to enjoy making asinine statements. "Teachers are taught science as a religion" "Romans had the best cement ever made" "We live in the century where the great art forms are the merging of science and engineering"
There's also a kind of arrogance when he shits on intel and djikstra that I find off-putting.
You've never seen how students too often get better grades on "perfect" science experiments than on honest reports of "failures" (experment differed from expected outcome)?
Somehow I'm not surprised that this is what turns up when I google Roman concrete:
> “Roman concrete is . . . considerably weaker than modern concretes. It’s approximately ten times weaker,” says Renato Perucchio, a mechanical engineer at the University of Rochester in New York. “What this material is assumed to have is phenomenal resistance over time.”
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-secrets-of-ancient...
There's also a kind of arrogance when he shits on intel and djikstra that I find off-putting.