Sentences with phrase «who changed science»

Swaby (Headstrong: 52 Women Who Changed Science — and the World, 2015) tackles a younger audience, bringing drama to these 33 tales geared to the female scientists of tomorrow.

Finding Wonders: Three Girls Who Changed Science In this novel written in verse, Jeannine Atkins shares the lives of three real - life scientists: entomologist Maria Merian (1647 — 1717), paleontologist Mary Anning (1799 — 1847), and astronomer Maria Mitchell (1818 — 89)-- all of whom were interested in science from childhood on.

Not exact matches

«I try to keep up with science, not people who have money to be made by not wanting things to change.»

«When we launched our science initiative last year, I spoke about how we need to change that our government spends 50x more treating people who are sick than finding cures so people don't get sick in the first place,» he wrote.

Lamar Smith (R. - Tx), who heads the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology, has demanded that New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman turn over all communication since 2012 between his office and climate change campaigners whose research led to him opening his probe.

Mirko Drotschmann, or MrWissen2go, a science blogger with about 500,000 subscribers who has recently posted videos on Germany's political parties, Islamic State and climate change, said he would have liked to grill her more on the refugee crisis.

Gilbert, who holds the Presidential Endowed Chair in Computing, is conducting his own study on whether society could change how youths view computer science.

This book by Doudna, who co-discovered the Crispr gene editing technology, and biochemist Sternberg «is a unique look at how Crispr is changing science.

But that all changed when he started attending the Bronx High School of Science, where kids spoke in «hushed tones in the hallways about the real heroes» — students who had won what was then known as the Westinghouse Science Talent Search.

When one man who has disrupted the energy, automotive and space industries, and another who connected nearly 2 billion individuals in the same social network, make major moves in neuroscience, somehow it feels like science fiction is evolving into history, and that our lives are about to change in unprecedented ways.

Also an energy secretary, Rick Perry, who wrote a book in which he referred to climate - change science as a «contrived phony mess.»

The pace of change in healthcare and the life sciences sector has been accelerating, creating a demand for professionals who can navigate the strategic, economic, political, and social undercurrents that are changing the face of this global structure.

Athiests are like little temper tantrum throwing toddlers who get SO angry because nobody believes their lie.Most modern science today has actually debunked evolution.Scientists are admitting that had darwin known what we know now that he would be debunking his own theories.Go ahead now throw your angry little fits.Now go have Mommy change your diaper, because it is full of...

The fact that you are uneducated is not the issue of those of us who are... read a science book for a change and get your head out of that 2000 year old book... only children and schizophrenics have imaginary friends..

Women in Science: 50 Fearless Pioneers Who Changed the World by Rachel Ignotofsky — This could count as a picture book, I guess — the illustrations are so charming — but it's written with older girls in mind so I tucked it into this section.

For those who think in this way, changing the structures of thought and perception built into so much of our science would be too indirect a contribution to the relief of suffering to be a true expression of Buddhist compassion.

Not only are irrefutable facts being challenged by people who do not understand the science involved or the importance of these facts, but the belief that there is no scientific consensus leads to a lack of attitudes to change.

People of science who «Know» what others should know are fools of the moment because as soon as science is sure of their fact the facts change.

It becomes the mission of the liberal church to present the claims of the Christian faith to those who have been most impressed by the empirical approach of the sciences or by those critical social needs which call for rapid and thoroughgoing change.

AA, religion, christ himself, science satanisim, math, medicine or whatever it is you choose to turn to try to get out of pain, remorse, guilt, anger, selfishness, legal problems, drug / alcohol abuse, financial ruin or any other negative result producing situation that you have brought upon yourself if it changes you for the betterand helps others feel better about you or themselves who cares what, who, or how someones higher power works!!!

The assault was made by a confident army of elite intellectuals, who appropriated the prestige of modern science and offered a rational rigor that might provide a place (however confined) to stand amidst world wars and huge changes in every area of life.

She cites a study which analyzes survey data revealing that, since the mid-1970s, a falling percentage of college - educated conservatives claim to «trust science,» compared to relatively stable numbers among liberals, and argues that those who oppose contraception, question the Neo-Darwinist narrative of evolution, or disagree with certain political measures to address global climate change, are opposed to science in general....

I was amused by the comment by ntlPol101 who suggested that science, in changing it's theories over time, is somehow exposing a flaw in scientific reasoning.

Informed by cutting - edge science and nutrition, along with case studies from men and women who have experienced life - changing transformations in their health after waving goodbye to wheat, Wheat Belly is an illuminating look at what is truly making Americans sick and an action plan to clear our plates of this seemingly benign ingredient.

Since taking leadership of the country last September, Prime Minister Tony Abbott, who in 2009 said the science behind climate change was «crap», has abolished the independent Climate Commission, the body created by the former Labor government to provide public information on the effects of global warming.

Even if Dr Amy was a he AND was removed from the Science Based Medicine Group, it doesn't change the fact that homebirth is dangerous and the midwives who attend homebirths are injuring and killing mothers AND babies.

We are supposed to believe that obstetricians (with 8 years of higher education, extensive study of science and statistics, and four additional years of hands on experience caring for pregnant women), the people who actually DO the research that represents the corpus of scientific evidence, are ignoring their own findings while NCB advocates (generally high school graduates with no background in college science or statistics, let alone advanced study of these subjects, and limited experience of caring for pregnant women), the people who NEVER do scientific research, are assiduously scouring the scientific literature, reading the main obstetric journals each month, and changing their practice based on the latest scientific evidence.

I still believe, as I put it in chapter two, that «software», not «hardware» — the long, slow waves of cultural change, not the more obvious technological and economic changes that figure so prominently in public debate and academic social science — hold the key to the British predicament; that our ills form an interdependent system or, in medical language, a «syndrome»; and that they reflect the bewilderment and disorientation of a people who have forgotten the history that shaped them, and who therefore no longer know who they are.

The success in reaching over 9000 pupils last year is thanks, in large part, to the many partners across the UK who have helped us by showing schools how to use the inspiring model of astronaut fitness and health to change children's activity levels and diet through learning about the science behind it.»

«For the sake of future generations who could be harmed by irreversible climate change, I urge New Yorkers to reject this fear mongering and uphold science against ideology,» he said in a statement.

Raise your glass to science and to the people who truly changed the world!

However, Lubchenco acknowledged, there is insufficient support and funding for scientists who want to do such research and increase public engagement with science to create large - scale change.

Trump has already nominated a handful of people to fill these slots, including former Governor of Texas Rick Perry, who has questioned the science underlying climate change, as energy secretary.

«A grandstand play, put on by people who don't like Trump or the GOP, regardless, that has nothing to do with climate change, alternative fuels or any other science.

Edward Maibach, an expert in climate change communication and director of the Center for Climate Change Communication at George Mason University, who also advised the AAAS project on communication science, said the report has a chance of changing change communication and director of the Center for Climate Change Communication at George Mason University, who also advised the AAAS project on communication science, said the report has a chance of changing Change Communication at George Mason University, who also advised the AAAS project on communication science, said the report has a chance of changing minds.

«The potential for the organisms to evolve in response to a rapidly changing environment is often downplayed, even though very few studies have examined the extent to which species might adapt,» said Michael Logan, who recently received a Ph.D. from Dartmouth College and is now a postdoctoral fellow at the National Science Foundation.

Barry Sinervo, a reptile and ecology expert at the University of California, Santa Cruz, who was not involved with the recent study, pointed to some of his own research, such as a study published in Science in May 2010 that examined extinction rates in lizards alongside changing climatic conditions.

«It's hard to believe there are people running for president who still refuse to accept the settled science of climate change, who'd rather remind us they're not scientists than listen to those who are,» Clinton states.

In Iowa, extension program staff members work directly with agricultural retailers to teach them the latest in climate science, said Linda Prokopy, an associate professor of natural resource social science at Purdue University, who also studies farmers» views on climate change.

«This earthquake was something that was not foreseen by anybody, but it managed to change the way that people thought about nuclear power rather dramatically,» said Shcherbakova, who also serves as director of the Master of Science in Energy Management program at UT Dallas.

Last week, House Science, Space and Technology Chairman Lamar Smith (R - Texas) subpoenaed the attorneys general of New York and Massachusetts, who are each investigating if Exxon Mobil Corp. misled investors and the public about climate change threats, and several environmental groups (ClimateWire, July 14).

«Science is an international endeavour, and if you really want to make the most of all there is on offer then you need to be willing to move,» points out Francis Barr, who has changed countries at every stage of his career.

To seek to present distorted science to those who will have to deal with the consequences of worsening climate change is deeply cynical.

«This study raises new questions about what climate change will do to severe thunderstorms and what is responsible for recent trends,» says Tippett, who is also a member of the Data Science Institute and the Columbia Initiative on Extreme Weather and Climate.

To get a sense of what the changing job market looks like from the ground, Science Careers surveyed dozens of scientists who did their Ph.D. or postdoctoral research in Barrett's lab.

Some laboratories remain open because they are run by contractors who are using money that was not spent during the 2013 fiscal year, but that could soon all change,» [a] nd at the 10 national laboratories supported by the Department of Energy's Office of Science, managers warned that academia and industry could soon lose access to synchrotrons and other popular tools.»

We need to adopt new ideas and system reforms to cater to the demands of this evolving world, especially in a country like Japan where we experience many dynamic changes and challenges,» states Igarashi, who emphasizes the importance of maintaining R&D and science education funding to make research careers attractive to young clinicians and scientists in Japan and around the world.

Indeed, as a science journalist who has covered climate change, I can vouch that scientists and the media have been told over and over that the public will ignore a message that's too depressing.

«It takes repetitive studies and consistent findings to change long - held beliefs,» says Aaron Caughey, a maternal - fetal specialist at Oregon Health & Science University in Portland, who was not involved in the study.

Andrew Rosenberg, a scientist who led one of the report's chapters on oceans and directs the Center for Science and Democracy at the Union of Concerned Scientists, said the report outlines changes that are happening now in various systems from agriculture to water resources to forestry to oceans.