Sentences with phrase «black scientists who»

One expert on racial inequality, economist Samuel Myers of the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, calls for the same type of comprehensive analysis to be done for NSF; overall funding rates for black scientists who apply for NSF grants are about 4 percentage points lower than for whites, according to the agency's own data since 2002.

Not exact matches

High - end guitar pedal maker Dr. Scientist is beloved by bands like the Black Keys, who appreciate the unique sounds they can craft with the company's hand - crafted pedals, such as the Frazz Dazzler and the Cosmichorus.

This is understandably something that can seem a bit strange to those who have not been educated in fields of science and advanced biology, and it is also why people who are not scientists ought not try to explain the processes in simple black - and - white terms.

I suspected when I first heard this claim that the Committee on the Status of Black Americans, loaded as it was with social scientists, had demolished a straw man, a bloodless construct so rigidly defined as to be meaningless in terms of the actual lives of the humans who inhabit the nation's ghettos and who, for the most part, make up what has come to be called the underclass.

C.W. Post political scientist Stanley Klein, who also is a GOP committeeman, said black and Hispanic voters are unlikely to flock to GOP contenders Rick Lazio, Steve Levy, Carl Paladino or Myers Mermel, but they could stay home on Election Day.

Stephen Hawking, a black hole whisperer who divined the secrets of the universe's most inscrutable objects, left a legacy of cosmological puzzles sparked by his work, and inspired a generation of scientists who grew up reading his books.

Seeing that you have hung out your own shingle as a black, male scientist might inspire more people who find themselves in a situation that is similar to the one you've described to do the same thing.

Black - footed ferrets, a critically endangered species native to North America, have renewed hope for future survival thanks to successful efforts by a coalition of conservationists, including scientists at Lincoln Park Zoo, to reproduce genetically important offspring using frozen semen from a ferret who has been dead for approximately 20 years.

They're deceptive because scientists toiling in endless postdocs or who find work harvesting pumpkins (which happened to my editor's former graduate school colleague for a time, after he earned his Ph.D. in physics studying the thermodynamics of black holes) are technically «employed.»

In his long life, he created trouble for a host of people and organisations: from black - shirted fascists to irresponsible pharmaceuticals companies to over-zealous traffic wardens who regularly patrolled the streets outside the offices of New Scientist.

Being someone who knows the tip of the iceberg about things like black holes, it's really mind - boggling to read the works and findings of brilliant scientists in such a comprehensible way.

Scientists from the BlackHoleCam team in Europe, who are part of the EHTC, have now gone a step further and investigated whether it is possible to distinguish between a «Kerr» black hole from Einstein's gravity and a «dilaton» black hole, which is a possible solution of an alternative theory of gravity.

Similarly, for most of the scientists who depend on them, domain - specific software tools are «black boxes.»

The difference persists even among black and white scientists who went to similar graduate schools, took part in the same NIH scientist training programs, have earned the same number of grants previously and have published the same number of scientific papers.

Gathering all this mass in under 690 million years is an enormous challenge for theories of supermassive black hole growth, explains Eduardo Bañados, an astronomer at the Carnegie Institution for Science who led the international team of scientists.

John Wheeler, scientist and dreamer, colleague of Albert Einstein and Niels Bohr, mentor to many of today's leading physicists, and the man who chose the name «black hole» to describe the unimaginably dense, light - trapping objects now thought to be common throughout the universe, turned 90 last July.

In Changing Faces of Astronomy, we meet two scientists from astronomy's next generation: UCLA's Andrea Ghez, who studies star formation and galactic black holes, and Oak Ridge National Laboratory's William Raphael Hix, who uses his computational expertise to build collaborations in the study of theoretical nuclear astrophysics.

«By picking up the gravitational waves associated with these events, we will be able to access precious information that was previously hidden, such as whether the collision of a star and a black hole has ignited the burst and roughly how massive these objects were before the impact,» explained Dr Ohme, who has focused his research on predicting the exact shape of the gravitational wave signals scientists are expecting to see.

She said that in terms of discrimination, «to be a woman scientist is worse than to be black in America,» recalls Hopkins, who was aghast at the comparison.

As a scientist who, as a teenager was enchanted with the concept of a molecule that instructed our inheritance, I am awed and astounded to be among the first to look across the billions of bases of DNA landscape of the black - footed ferret, an opportunity seemingly beyond the realm of possibility less than a human lifetime ago.

Inside black holes dwell quantum remains of the stars from which they were formed, say a group of scientists, who also predict that these stars can later emerge once the black hole evaporates.

«Controlling black carbon may be the only way of preventing the loss of the Arctic completely,» said Mark Jacobson, an atmospheric scientist who researches air pollution and climate change at Stanford University.

«We have observed — on the 4th of January, 2017 — another massive black hole - black hole binary coalescence; the in - spiral and merging of black holes 20 and 30 times the mass of our sun,» Dave Shoemaker, a senior research scientist who works at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the spokesperson for the LIGO Scientific Collaboration, told reporters during a special news briefing on Wednesday (May 31).

Lethal spy and assassin Natasha Romanoff (Scarlett Johansson), aka Black Widow, is sent to recruit Bruce Banner (Mark Ruffalo), the brilliant scientist who turns into the Hulk when he's angry.

It shows more of Tom Hardy's performance as investigative reporter Eddie Brock, who it tracking down a story about secret experiments with some sort of black gooey alien matter, found by scientist Riz Ahmed.

Haynes» first feature is a decade - spanning, genre - hopping black - and - white trilogy about a boy who shoots his father and flies into the clouds, a scientist who turns into a monster after isolating and then consuming the human sex drive, and two gay lovers in a French prison.

-- Director Shane Black on Rebecca Hall, who plays scientist Maya Hansen in Iron Man 3.

The film stars Natalie Portman as a grieving soldier - scientist, Lena, who hasn't seen her black - ops husband, Kane (Oscar Issac), for over a year.

Combining the casts of The Avengers, Black Panther, Doctor Strange and Guardians of the Galaxy may have sounded like genius alchemy to studio scientists who think of filmgoing as one - stop shopping.

Yet, for a child inspired by the classic monster movies from Universal Pictures growing up, the writer / director has never had an opportunity to realize his dream of remaking The Creature from the Black Lagoon, which featured the prehistoric Gillman (Ben Chapman on land, Ricou Browning for the underwater sequence)- and his fascination with Kay (Julie Adams), who is part of a group of scientists on an expedition in the Amazonian jungle.

The 2016 film was based on the book of the same name by Margot Lee Shetterly, who told the true story of the black female mathematicians and scientists who were unsung heroes in launching the early - day of the American space program.

And despite the criticism over being the Ghostbuster who was black and not a scientist — like Ernie Hudson in the original — Jones is the film's biggest breath of fresh air as the street-wise transit worker who joins the team after encountering a nasty ghost in a subway tunnel.

With this comparison, the authors establish that white disadvantage and black disadvantage are not so different, following the work of political scientist Charles Murray, who has gone furthest in demonstrating that conditions depicted in Daniel P. Moynihan's 1965 study of the black family are today very much the conditions of the white poor, too.

The first book, Steady Gains and Stalled Progress, edited by Katherine Magnuson and Jane Waldfogel, includes chapters by social scientists who are intent on figuring out why the black - white test score gap narrowed sharply during the 1970s and 1980s, but then stayed constant, or even widened.

Story of group of abducted and reconstructed youth from various countries who escapes with help from a kind scientist, and who fights with the evil, international arms trader, Black Ghost.

Many recent, well - conducted studies have shown that university students, scientists, and managers penalize job applicants or professors who are thought to be female or black.

A single weapon is gifted to each of the team members so team leader and chief ball - bag is Dalton, who gets a mag - shield type pistol, Naya a cold professional killer gets the black hole creating assault rifle, Izzy, the token sassy redhead scientist gets a gun that crystallises people, and Jacob the gruff ex-cop with a bucket of chips on his shoulder gets a crossbow which sets people on fire.

A reply has come in from Drew T. Shindell, the NASA atmospheric scientist who was a leader of the team that wrote a new World Meteorological Organization / United Nations Environment Program report on the merits of cting to curb black carbon and ozone.

Dr. Goklany is one of the many scientists, economists, and policy experts who argue from sound data and verifiable history (not from discredited «black box» computer models that are inaccessible to the public and other researchers) that fossil fuels should be unleashed, not locked away.

Policy makers and scientists who have long promoted the benefits of curbing black carbon and ground - level ozone are happy to have the United Nations report's validation.

Still, Sarah Doherty, a research scientist at the University of Washington who is lead author of the study, cautions that one of the study's main lessons is how difficult it is to disentangle the effects of black carbon from other emissions.

When somebody who is purported to be a responsible scientist and the custodian and curator of a central repository of historic temperature data writes «I would rather destroy the data than hand it over to skeptics» then, amazingly, like the IRS, the very data in question is destroyed, I would say that the «profession» has taken a severe black eye and has some serious reputation restoration work to do.

What I think is lost on those skeptics who read the IPCC selectively is that no AGW would not be a black swan to most climate scientists: to put it in reference to probability distributions for the climate sensitivity, every serious climate scientist has a probability distribution with some density at 0.

It does not qualify as a Black Swan, since it claimed ascendancy only by ignoring conflicting evidence and blackballing climate scientists who had such evidence.

Black, who died in 1988, was among the first Exxon scientists to become acquainted with the greenhouse effect.