Sentences with phrase «ancient science at»

«In this very small volume of messed - up corroded metal you have packed in there enough knowledge to fill several books telling us about ancient technology, ancient science and the way these interacted with the broader culture of the time,» said Alexander Jones, a historian of ancient science at New York University's Institute for the Study of the Ancient World.

If the new interpretation is right, P322 would not only contain the earliest evidence of trigonometry, but it would also represent an exact form of the mathematical discipline, rather than the approximations that estimated numerical values for sines and cosines provide, notes Mathieu Ossendrijver, a historian of ancient science at Humboldt University in Berlin.

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It's just so sad that at this point you've been able to fool yourself into reconciling modern 21st century science with ancient hebrew nomadic life.

Christianity, particularly that flagrantly practiced and grossly over-preached by evangelists, is also anti-science and is therefore putting our young people and our future workforce at a disadvantage relative to competing nations that now have better science education without religious bias and without the ancient supersti - tions that block modern understanding and technological and medical progress.

Stephen M. Barr is professor of physics at the University of Delaware and author of Modern Physics and Ancient Faith and A Student's Guide to Natural Science.

What cracks me up is the religious attack our science... we have their god pushed all the way back to TBB... they seem to lose track of the fact that their beliefs are based on, at minimum 1350 year old thinking (quaran) and somehow ancient philosophy can trump The Big Bang and the solid science that its based on.

This last question gets at how Dante — and the ancients — treat science.

It has already spread throughout Central Africa, raising fearless warriors at every step; and were it not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science, the science against which it had vainly struggled, the civilisation of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilisation of ancient Rome.

The grounds on which church authorities resisted the advancing claims of the sciences were in the first place simply that they were at variance with the accepted teachings handed down from ancient times.

Focusing, as you might guess, on evolution, our friends at the Portsmouth Institute are offering a conference on «Modern Science / Ancient Faith» from June 22nd to 24th.

Here is the sheer miracle of it: a literature that long antedated our glorious gains in science and the immense scope of modern knowledge, which moves in the quiet atmosphere of the ancient countryside, with camels and flocks and roadside wells and the joyous shout of the peasant at vintage or in harvest — this literature, after all that has intervened, is still our great literature, published abroad as no other in the total of man's writing, translated into the world's great languages and many minor ones, and cherished and loved and studied so earnestly as to set it in a class apart.

For example, at one point he quotes the distinguished historian of ancient science G. E. R. Lloyd, who said of Greek science: «Much as the Egyptians and Babylonians contributed to the content of these studies, the investigations only acquire self «conscious methodologies for the first time with the Greeks.»

At the founding of the University of Berlin, Humboldt was explicit in saying that, in making the faculty of arts and sciences central, the research university had the same overarching goal as that of ancient Athens» paideia: it «transforms the character.»

Civilizations golden years were at a time religion and science, art were one in ancient times.

Basically, a new way of looking at old texts or works of art, grounded in a sense of inferiority vis - a-vis what the Ancients achieved in science and the arts.

Even though is not enough peer - reviewed science to verify these claims, we at Farmer Direct believe that not only is it important to restore ancient grains to people's diets, but that we have a responsibility to grow them using responsible farming practices in high - quality soil.

Jian - Wei Pan, a physicist at the University of Science and Technology of China in Shanghai, got the chance to test the idea when the Micius satellite, named after an ancient Chinese philosopher, was launched in August 2016.

Cannon and co-author Jack Mustard, professor of Earth, environmental and planetary sciences at Brown, showed that large glass deposits are present in several ancient yet well - preserved craters scattered across the Martian surface.

Caitlin Colleary, a doctoral student of geosciences in the College of Science at Virginia Tech, says the original color patterns of ancient animals can be determined through fossils.

Get your science news at our Web site, www.scientificamerican.com, where you can track down my 2013 column, headlined «Toilet Tissue: Anthropologists Uncover All the Ways We've Wiped,» also about ancient bathroom habits, as you might have guessed.

I loved ancient history, writing, and science in school, but decided to major in biology and minor in chemistry at South Carolina State University.

Professor Sanjeev Gupta, lead author from Department of Earth Science and Engineering at Imperial, said: «The findings challenge our current understanding of how urbanisation in many ancient civilisations began and grew in relation to natural resources.

At the time, Mahan, a CU - Boulder assistant professor of geological sciences, noted that the alteration of garnet was thought to be far too ancient, from more than a billion years ago, to fit the theory.

At Al Shaqab in Doha, Qatar, science is bringing a new life to the ancient bloodlines of Arabian horses — the breed that carried historical figures such as Alexander the Great, Genghis Khan, Napoleon and George Washington.

Even back then, explains Marzari, a physicist at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland, his now - ancient handset took just 40 seconds to carry out quantum - mechanical calculations that once took many hours on a supercomputer — a feat that not only shows how far such computational methods have come in the past decade or so, but also demonstrates their potential for transforming the way materials science is done in the future.

«If you're willing to accept something that is an elephant that has a few mammoth genes inserted into its genome and therefore is able to make some proteins that mammoths might, we're probably closer to that,» says Beth Shapiro, author of How to Clone a Mammoth: The Science of De-Extinction and an evolutionary biologist at UC Santa Cruz specializing in ancient DNA.

► In this week's Science Careers - produced Working Life column, Kevin Boehnke, a doctoral candidate in public health at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, writes that his training in ancient history has given him a perspective and tools that have made him a better scientist.

Research led by the Australian Centre for Ancient DNA (ACAD) at the University of Adelaide, published in Science Advances, has revealed that it was only when the climate warmed, long after humans first arrived in Patagonia, did the megafauna suddenly die off around 12,300 years ago.

Working with Estonian collaborators, «we plan to throw massive science» at these ancient vessels to glean everything possible about this period, Price said.

Lead author William Taylor, a postdoctoral research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, says that this model «enables us for the first time to link horse use with other important cultural developments in ancient Mongolia and eastern Eurasia, and evaluate the role of climate and environmental change in the local origins of horse riding.»

In a paper the journal Science published last June, Tom Dillehay, an anthropological archaeologist at Vanderbilt University, revealed that the squash seeds he found in the ruins of what may have been ancient storage bins on the lower western slopes of the Andes in northern Peru are almost 10,000 years old.

Our goal was to fingerprint the source of methane in the Arctic Ocean to determine if ancient methane was being liberated from the seafloor and if it survives to be emitted to the atmosphere,» says Sparrow, who conducted the study, published in Science Advances, as part of her doctoral research at the University of Rochester.

Ultimately, science is at best only consistent with a God that does not directly intervene in the daily operations of the cosmos, certainly not the personal and ancient gods associated with the world's great religions.

When science meets religion at this ancient Greek site, the two turn out to be on better terms than scholars had originally thought

«There's a view that ancient peoples were obsessed with religion and that science and knowledge were all directed at religious ends,» he adds.

The destruction of a planet may sound like the stuff of science fiction, but a team of astronomers has found evidence that this may have happened in an ancient globular cluster of stars at the edge of the Milky Way galaxy.

And now, there is a beautifully written book on the subject, HOW TO CLONE A MAMMOTH: The Science of De-extinction, by Beth Shapiro at UC Santa Cruz, where she does most of our ancient DNA analysis and supervises Ben Novak's graduate work.

Organic Einkorn and Emmer wheat is ancient wheat and if we're going to eat a grain that isn't something we should be eating anyway, it is best to eat Einkorn or Emmer, at least that's what the science says.

While many of the historic foods, herbs, and practices have been found through modern science to be ineffective at best, many other of our ancient traditions have survived through the millennium because they have been proven to work.

Emily combines ancient techniques, cutting - edge science, and a little bit of psychology mixed in, to help you achieve greater physical satisfaction with your partner while at the same time allowing you to shed some of the embarrassment and shame surrounding sexuality that can prevent people from fully enjoying sex.

September 1 — September 29, 2017, April 1 — 29, 2018 This 200 - hour yoga teacher training course in Rishikesh at Nada Yoga School will be conducted by our team of accomplished teachers, including a reputed Ayurvedic doctor and a Nada yogi, who feel privileged to share their knowledge and practice of ancient traditions, while incorporating elements of medical sciences (Yoga Anatomy and Physiology)... Learn More

It has already spread throughout Central Africa, raising fearless warriors at every step; and were it not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science, the science against which it had vainly struggled, the civilisation of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilisation of ancient Rome.

In his old age, John Adams recalled his youthful intimations of the providential forces at work: «There is nothing... more ancient in my memory,» he wrote in 1807, «than the observation that arts, sciences, and empire had always...

In this incredible age of increasing awareness and the rise of consciousness, where the intellect is craving to find the answers to the place and purpose of one s existence, we often find ourselves at an intersection of ancient texts and modern science, falling into an array of dichotomies.

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It was intrigued at the history of this place, fascinated by what the ancient Mayans discovered and the sciences that they have preserved over the years.

Computer science researchers from North Carolina State University have developed a technique to determine which strategies give players an edge at winning in multi-player (action) real - time strategy (ARTS) games, such as Defense of the Ancients (DotA), Warcraft III and Starcraft II.

In the medium of art at least, a reconciliation of modern science and ancient wisdom appears tantalizingly within reach.

Now on view at the Museum of Modern Art, this addicting and idiosyncratic 13 minute film explores various creations myths, through a dizzying display of modern and ancient artifacts and images which open and close in windows on the screen, set against a hip hop beat and spoken word poetry on the origins of life, in some ways taking aim at the history and science of anthropological collections.

Although this show focuses on Bhabha's two - dimensional work, the artist is best known for her grotesque yet monumental sculptures born out of ancient tribal artifacts, German Expressionism, and popular science - fiction influences such as those in her recent exhibition at MoMA PS1 of otherworldly figures appearing in a state of decay.