Sentences with phrase «doing useful science»

Finally, for all of those who think random «auditing» is doing useful science, one really, really should read Chris Mooney's «The Republican War on Science», especially Chapter 8 «Wine, Jazz, and «Data Quality» `, i.e., Jim Tozzi, the Data Quality Act, and «paralysis - by - analysis.»

Not exact matches

I've culled the studies that are neither useful nor funny - like the one that confirms women pretend to be happy about gifts they don't like while men don't, causing fights - to offer you a quick guide to the science of the season:

Part research, part science, and part introspection exercise, Heart, Smarts, Guts and Luck does help you understand your personality and decision - making traits — useful in itself — but more importantly is filled with cool insights and tips any entrepreneur can benefit from.

As a Biologist he should know the iterizations of error science goes through to get even one «fact:» remotely close to do something useful with as technology.

Why not tell the pastor that if he wants to pray fine, but do something useful too, like promoting math and science education so we can develop alternative fuels and improve existing energy sources or encouraging other pastors to take the bus instead of driving their Caddies and Rolls.

The theological work which will be most useful in the years ahead will be that which works out its motifs in correlation with the whole range of the biological, behavioral, and social sciences, and does so in language which has the widest possible touch with ordinary modes of speech common to all educated persons.

Steven Pinker says when it comes to ethics, ``... ethical theory requires idealizations like free, sentient, rational, equivalent agents * whose behavior is uncaused *, and its conclusions can be sound and useful even though the world, as seen by science, does not really have uncaused events.»

Interesting discussion — Totally agree about the «punching above their weight» problem with the current spate of «popular» atheists and junk writers, as well as the «Hollywood» treatment of Pullman, but you don't need to wade through Pullman's trilogy to get a useful insight into institutionalism vs genuine spirituality — just pick up the excellent «The Dragon in the Sea» by Dune author Frank Herbert or «The Moon is a Harsh Mistress» by Robert Heinlien — great works from the Golden Age of Science Fiction literature.

The girls have been really interested in doing simple science experiments, so these will be very useful.

But the new findings clearly show that nudge - type strategies based in behavioral science do offer a useful, low - cost approach to promoting behaviors tied to a variety of important outcomes.

«We founded this company on the basis of an idea and some basic science done at Caltech, but to demonstrate that we could transform the idea into a sensor required some start - up capital, and the SBIR grant was very useful in that regard,» says Kayyem.

But, at least in the elementary - school presentations he's done, the toys are useful for making science both accessible and fun.

There is no rule that would allow us to do something useful with a supernova and a fish (except possibly in some psychedelic science fiction novel).

«Historically we have sought to take weapon scientists from potential enemies and teach them something useful to do other than weapon science,» she said.

«If we can spark in younger people a greater interest in science, convince frontline teachers of the importance of what they do, or interest further the long tail of industry,» he said, «then we will have done something useful.»

It is with this in mind that Hoodbhoy provides a useful critique of attempts by other authors to discuss Islamic science as if the realities of modern life simply did not exist, and Muslims could wish themselves back to the numinous realms of the medieval alchemists.

Especially as school districts look at implementing Next Generation Science Standards, and researchers are encouraged to do more outreach for broader impact, a better understanding of the mental models of STEM ed and the value of designing an online classroom can be useful.

Citizen science may be a useful and cost - effective means to increase knowledge of shark populations on coral reefs, but scientists do not yet know enough about how data collected by untrained observers compares to results from traditional research methods.

I studied medicine because I wanted to do something useful, but I soon started to do science on the side.

I've added a few different sets of comments including graph work, descriptive work for science, and the science APP level descriptors So hopefully it'll be useful for someone other than just myself, please do send me feedback if you use this resource!

But analytics can be incredibly useful — even for those of us who don't dabble in data science...

As Paul wrote, «Science may provide the most useful way to organize empirical, reproducible data, but its power to do so is predicated on its inability to grasp the most central aspects of human...

What makes the Vetri Science Probiotic special is its non-dairy probiotic formula which makes it useful for sensitive dogs that do not enjoy dairy products.

- after the remakes of Terry's Wonderland 3D and Dragon Quest Monsters 2, Yuji Horii asked the team what should be next - the choices were Caravan Heart (GBA), a professional version of Dragon Quest Monsters 2, or a brand new game - the staff made the plot together with Takeshi Uchikawa (who is currently directing Dragon Quest XI)- the suggestion was to make the theme become something catchy, which lead to a science fiction vibe - Horii said «anything's alright as long as it's interesting» - the creation of the Dragon Quest Monsters: Super Light helped build Joker 3 - fan feedback from the mobile game was used, which lead to monster stats being seen - the Reactor device lets you easily see all the things that occur on the field - the team had some trouble bringing together the ridable monsters aspect of the game, but eventually worked it out - the full game starts off with monsters that players can ride on land - you'll eventually unlock sea, air, and multi-jump land rising monsters - a «Big Air ride» was teased as well - by clearing the story, features will be unlocked that further modify monsters such as abilities and changing their sizes - Stealth Boxes which can not be found without using the Reactor only contains useful items that are optional - compulsory items that are needed to be found with the Reactor are placed in non-stealth locations - accessories can strengthen monsters, but monster strength is mainly determined from raising and combining them - features more offense - related content in the form of new spells and skills - new water - type spells are included - new skills added enable more detailed adjustments in versus, adding more strategic features - one of the items that can be bought with Communication Coins has the same effect with «Key of Encounters» - this lets players recruit monsters a bit more easily they've befriended before - since Communication Coins can only be obtained from multiplayer battles, it's completely optional - people who still do StreetPass but don't want to do multiplayer battles can still get them by combining monsters - DLC monsters are planned to be added regularly post-release until around Golden Week (April 29 — May 5)- - A national tournament is also planned, with more details coming later - carryover feature from Dragon Quest Monsters 2 that comes into play after the ending - players can bring up to 10 monsters which are ranked A or below from DQM2 to DQMJ3 each day

Ehrlich did this not because he thought «betting» was a useful way to produce good science, or good policy, but to show that the emporor (Simon) has no clothes.

If they're not doing science, they're doing something else that's awfully useful to our understanding of the world around us.

But since we seem to have determined that global mean temperatures do tend to track global mean forcings, the interesting science is now in determining the regional scale at which we can still make useful statements — and whether a forcing is «first order» or not will depend quite crucially on what the scale is.

As Professor Barry Brook, Adelaide University said a couple of months after your proclamation about the up - coming ice - age QUOTE: There are a lot of uncertainties in science, and it is indeed likely that the current consensus on some points of climate science is wrong, or at least sufficiently uncertain that we don't know anything much useful about processes or drivers» (http://bravenewclimate.com/2009/04/23/ian-plimer-heaven-and-earth/).

So, people do care when you are opposed to their point of view, it seems, so it is quite useful to show that I work with some of the top UK climate scientists (via Tyndall), that I am involve in climate policy modelling (and climate modelling via CIAS), so I don't get any patronising comments by anonymous people who claim I should be quiet because they «read the science» while I must be a PR guy if I want to engage with people with a different opinion to myself.

For a scientist it is a strange procedure but I can see that it serves a useful political role to do it this way... The science survived this process intact.

Until this is done, little progress is possible in many of the major issues in climate science, and no further expenditures should be made responding to climate alarmism until the new methodology has been thoroughly tested and the basic surface temperature data has been reconstituted in a useful form.

Honest science, useful science, must educate people about our natural hazards and natural climate oscillations; so that people do not build too close to fragile cliff edges or build in the middle of a flood plain.

Trained in science and maths, engineers it might be said, are the folk that do something useful with what scientist find out.

I suggest that it would be a useful counter to the OISM petition and paper for you to list the scientific claims made in the paper and provide links to the relevant science or other references as you did with the list of studies on consensus.

Freedom of Information Act requests may be of some limited value in retrieving climate science data and analysis documentation, but the commitment of DOE and NASA management to a philosophy of doing quality work in their climate science programs will be demonstrated only by allocating the level of budgetary and schedule resources needed to build a truly useful process and information architecture, one that serves the needs of the scientists and the auditors alike.

It is the combination of all lines of evidence and tested theory which is the basis for the educated folks (that is, folks educated in climate science in particular) giving useful information on that technical subject, concerning what we do actually know about climate and what it's doing.

In a field as wide - ranging as climatology, non-climatologists can and do have useful input — for example, much as you seem to detest McIntyre and Wegman, they are certainly qualified to comment on statistical methodology and dismissing their concerns on any basis but statistics is poor science.]

These documents, while serving a useful purpose in providing guidelines for scenario use, did not fully address the science of climate scenario development.

Models and statistical analysis are useful in decision making but they do not reach the level of science.

There are many examples in science where ignorance of cause does not prevent the winnowing of useful information.

To Patrick @ # 415 — Yes, I started with that useful Skeptical Science article (and yes, I did post a link to it above.)

At that time (and particularly the early to mid 70's) climate science was ambiguous about predicting the future, although the 1975 NAS report summarised the state of the science pretty well: that we didn't know enough to make useful predictions and needed to study more.

The problem always encountered in science when stats are used to reject the null is that in doing so, even if you can reject the null, you haven't provided any useful information.

Yet if one compares the monopoly rights of lost authors to that of Google's «de facto monopoly,» as Chin called it (because the settlement would have protected Google alone from damage suits over orphan books), Google's would seem to do more to advance the goal the U.S. constitution's copyright clause, namely, «to promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts.»

Preferring society over the individual leads toward socialism and Marxism, and we do have evidence of that harming innovation and the progress of science and useful arts when compared to the progress accomplished by a nation of individuals empowered with the freedom of and protection over creativity.

To do this: Secure inventors the exclusive right to their discoveries for the purpose of promoting the progress of science and useful arts.

Since credentials are so key to a successful career in science, showcasing all your academic and professional accomplishments in one place can be a useful exercise — even if your potential employer doesn't require you to submit a CV.

If you're going to buy your partner a gift, do you choose something practical and imminently useful but unromantic (the Science of Relationships book?)