Sentences with phrase «as amateur scientists»

Artists including Mark Dion, Jochen Lempert and Helen Mirra use the Hildesheim Museum's geological collection to employ scientific methodology for their own fictional documentations as amateur scientists.

When priests questioned a scientific theory, which they often did in their capacity as amateur scientists, their scientific skepticism was held up as an example of religious obstruction.

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Cardinal Christoph Schönborn has even argued that a scientist who uses evolution as the grounds for atheism is speaking as an amateur theologian, not as a professional scientist.

Thanks to the Internet, amateur volunteers known as «citizen scientists» can readily donate their time and effort to science — in fields ranging from medicine to zoology to astrophysics.

Scientists may also be recruited to work with more junior athletes in specific training centres, colleges and universities with sports programmes, as well as semiprofessional and amateur sports teams.

It is rare indeed for professional scientists to invite amateurs to become involved as anything other than guinea pigs.

Renn, in a paper written in 2000 with Tilman Sauer, refers to Mandl as an «amateur scientist.»

Google's launch this week of Sky, a new feature within Google Earth that provides a virtual tour of celestial phenomena, may be of limited use to professional astronomers, but its impact on future scientists and amateur stargazers alike is expected to be as infinite and expansive as the universe it portrays.

These observations make Saturn's rings the only location besides Earth, the moon and Jupiter where scientists and amateur astronomers have been able to observe impacts as they occur.

In some cases, citizen - scientists such as bird - watchers or amateur astronomers collectively can make significant contributions.

De Pater's colleague Larry Sromovsky, a planetary scientist at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, identified the amateur spot as one of the few features on the Keck Observatory images from August 5 that was only seen at 1.6 microns, and not at 2.2 microns.

The scientists used the National Science Foundation's Very Large Array (VLA) radio telescope in New Mexico and the Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope (WSRT) in the Netherlands to produce an image of the galaxy M33, known to amateur astronomers as the Pinwheel Galaxy.

As the do - it - yourself biology (DIYbio) community has grown, so have concerns about the ability of these amateur scientists to wield DNA and manipulate life.

Kuiken provides a number of scary headlines about amateur scientists cooking up all sorts of trouble, but concludes,» [M] uch of this alarm is overblown, as critics overestimate the current abilities of the DIYbio movement and underestimate the ethics of its participants, who can range from PhD - trained scientists to the true amateur who has little professional training.»

But The Creeping Garden becomes needlessly gloomy whenever the filmmakers aren't exploring slime mold's role in scientific progress, such as the handful of sequences featuring amateur scientist Mark Pragnell searching a forest for the organism.

In 2007, while diving the site known as Hoyo Negro (Spanish for black hole), a group of amateur cave divers made a startling discovery that would completely transform the way scientists view the first inhabitants of America.

He operates as an artist, writer, amateur scientist, semi-philosopher, and sometime curator.

Just as Paglen works with hobbyist astronomers, curator Tyler Stallings, whose show «Free Enterprise: The Art of Citizen Space Exploration» will be seen next year at the Sweeney Art Gallery at the University of California, Riverside, comments that the «idea of citizen scientists, a burgeoning movement, shows a shift from scientists informing the public about what's good for them to research often done by amateurs.»

A university or corporate scientist could just tap their employer, but I was SOL because I was working alone and as an amateur.

Here's your prediction, and don't blame the scientists, blame this amateur's close observation of what is going on in the Arctic now, as recorded in real time at Neven's, NSIDC, and the like.

They want to deal with litigious «amateur scientists» as much as they want a hole in their head.

You describe yourself as an amateur, but I am sure you can get help from scientists (if you feel you need it) to ease the path to journal publication.

But as I see it, Judy plays on the second line, while Dana's trying to become a first - liner, i.e. an amateur climate scientist, like Vaughan Pratt, Nick Stokes or Fred Moolten.

Given the quality of people who are hailed as «scientists» these days, I'd be inclined to got with the «plucky amateur» title.