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Wednesday, May 23, 2012

Small T-shirt Company Wants to Make Intelligence Cool


Could t-shirts make the U.S. smarter? My new t-shirt company called Smart Apparel hopes so. Did you know American students are falling behind in subjects such as math and science? In an assessment by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, 15-year-old students in the U.S. placed 25th out of 30 compared to other countries in math, and 21st in science. Smart Apparel wants to help change that by Celebrating the Human Intellect. 
The t-shirts promote topics such as science, philosophy, critical thinking and even politics. Many of the shirts have quotes from people such as Carl Sagan, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Christopher Hitchens, Bertrand Russell, Charles Darwin and there is even a collection of NASA T-Shirts inspired by NASA mission patches. 
So many stats show that American students' scores are in decline especially in science and math and that's concerning. I hope these shirts will inspire more people to value intelligence—because being intelligent cool!

Not sure what to get your child for their 13th birthday—an aluminum element t-shirt is a perfect gift as its atomic number is 13! If you're a parent who wants to see your child interested in science and math, these shirts are a great start!
Want to help promote science and reason, check out Smart Apparel and "like" it on Facebook.