Sentences with phrase «war on science about»

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Yet there is a strong and deep academic literature, that draws on extensive interdisciplinary evidence from economics, political science, anthropology and history, which shows how simplistic and misguided such arguments about «resource wars» are, both when approached theoretically and through Asian or African case studies.

About this Book: The War on Science: Who's Waging It, Why It Matters, What We Can Do About It Shawn Otto Milkweed Editions, 2016

Scientific American editors Mark Fischetti, Dina Maron and Seth Fletcher talk about the info they picked up at the just - concluded annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Washington, D.C. Subjects covered include gravitational waves, whether there's really a war on science, the growing concern over Zika virus, sea level rise and advances in artificial intellScience in Washington, D.C. Subjects covered include gravitational waves, whether there's really a war on science, the growing concern over Zika virus, sea level rise and advances in artificial intellscience, the growing concern over Zika virus, sea level rise and advances in artificial intelligence.

Grace Kao, associate ethics professor at Claremont School of Theology, in Claremont, California, mentioned additions she will make to her Introduction to Christian Ethics course, such as discussing epigenetic alterations associated with war trauma for a session on war and peace, the science behind shopping and the ways that poverty can change your genes for a segment about economics, and an exploration of whether genes can predict a person's liberalism and conservatism for a session on religion and politics.

The breathtaking, richly eloquent, and visually - poetic film - deliberately filmed at a slow pace - about space travel and the discovery of extra-terrestrial intelligence (many years before Star Wars (1977), Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), and E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial (1982)-RRB-, was based on the published 1951 short story The Sentinel, written in 1948 by English science fiction author Arthur C. Clarke.

Look, the jig is up: Josh Gad has been whiling away the hours on the set of Murder On The Orient Express by trying to trick Daisy Ridley into divulging plot details of her other gig, a science fiction series about wizards and talking dogs called Star Waron the set of Murder On The Orient Express by trying to trick Daisy Ridley into divulging plot details of her other gig, a science fiction series about wizards and talking dogs called Star WarOn The Orient Express by trying to trick Daisy Ridley into divulging plot details of her other gig, a science fiction series about wizards and talking dogs called Star Wars.

by Roland Laird with Taneshia Nash Laird Illustrated by Elihu «Adofo» Bay Foreword by Charles Johnson Sterling Publishing Paperback, $ 14.95 240 pages, illustrated ISBN: 978 -1-4027-6226-0 Book Review by Kam Williams «One of the invaluable features of Still I Rise, the first cartoon history of black America, is the wealth of information it provides about the marginalized — and often suppressed — political, economic and cultural contributions black people have made on this continent since the 17th C... Using pictures, it transports us back through time, enabling us to see how dependent American colonists were on the agricultural sophistication of African slaves and indentured servants; how blacks fought and died for freedom during the Revolutionary and Civil Wars; and how, in ways both small and large, black genius shaped the evolution of democracy, the arts and sciences, and the English language in America, despite staggering racial and social obstacles.

It's easy to get caught up in the Reading Wars [phonics vs whole language] and Math Wars [basic skills and algorithms vs mathematical power] and Science Wars [basics / facts vs hands - on learning] that Peter Schrag wrote about 15 + years ago when the 1997 standards were being debated.

«Glory Road» is a interesting mixture of science fiction and fantasy about a war veteran who has been discharged from the army and, not seeing any better alternative in his own world, embarks on an adventure in another universe.

In the war on fake news, school librarians have a huge role to play: Talking to an information sciences professor about the challenges ahead by Kaitlyn Tiffany, The Verge, Nov 16, 2016

In the war on fake news, school librarians have a huge role to play: Talking to an information sciences professor about the challenges ahead by Kaitlyn Tiffany, The Verge, Nov 16, 2016 From the entire political spectrum in the post

Mom Launches War Against Bestselling Book About Race, Science - Another day, another attack on a book.

Asked Linn, «If the science about cats and their impact on biodiversity is this unreliable, then why is Australia talking about a war against feral cats?

If the science about cats and their impact on biodiversity is this unreliable, then why is Australia talking about a war against feral cats?

He won't be representing the U.S. government, but he will be representing our country's best interests — namely, speaking out about the Trump administration's «war on science.»

For example, his Australian flagship, The Australian, has run what is known as «The Australian's War on Science» in an effort to sow confusion about the science around global wScience» in an effort to sow confusion about the science around global wscience around global warming.

Although the book has «Republican» in the title, much of the content was really about a bipartisan war on science.

The US National Academy of Sciences led the real war on science, using control over public research funds to deceive the public about the source of energy that powers the Sun and controls human destiny:

The real question is, if we're talking about «Wars on Science,» are we really prepared to follow such talk to its logical conclusion: The Hague?

I will tell you about another scientist from an earlier time, Her name was Leona Woods Libby, she was the only woman that worked on the manhattan project, she was accomplished in developing the first nuclear reactor; after the war she went into the science of climate change based on natural cycles.

One of the big problems with talking about what Chris Mooney has called The Republican War on Science is that, on the Republican side, the case against science is rarely laid out explScience is that, on the Republican side, the case against science is rarely laid out explscience is rarely laid out explicitly.

I had just read his first book The Republican War on Science, and was delighted to learn that he was working on a new book about the hurricane «wars.»

BTW: The late Stephen H Schneider has a really interesting story to tell about this in his book «Science as a contact sport» (National Geographic Society, 2009) He did some modelling on the climatic effects of a thermonuclear war, and found that it would probably not lead to as much cooling as Carl Sagan thought.

Mooney is the author of two books — The Republican War on Science and The Republican Brain (subtitle: The Science of Why They Deny Science — and Reality)-- that leave no doubt about where he stands.

neither do those uncertainties allow scientific closure — as long as models of the climate system's behavior decay into chaos on shorter time scales than human history, climate modeling will remain prey to misrepresentation by those well enough paid, or ideologically bloody minded enough to do so: the trouble with the climate wars is that neither political side, activist or obscurantist, really gives a damn about the science, and those presuming to speak for it invite damnation by both.

Art Robinson is the founder of a group called the «Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine» (OISM), which markets, among other things, a home - schooling kit for «parents concerned about socialism in the public schools» and books on how to survive nuclear war.