Sentences with phrase «early science rather»

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McHenry may be correct that when Science and the Modern World is viewed against the background of Whitehead's earlier writings it «becomes less rather than more intelligible» (WPSP 11).

Gaudium et Spes, as the constitution is normally referred to, based many of its reflections upon the following insight: «The human race is passing from a rather static concept of the order of things to a more dynamic, evolutionary one» (n. 5) Its authors, as well as Ronald Knox 20 years earlier and to some degree Rene Descartes 350 years earlier, recognised that such an understanding was invited by the method of the new sciences.

Morgan had earlier complained (EEV) about Whitehead's treatment of mind in CN as wholly distinct from nature, and objected to Whitehead's earlier claim that the study of their relations constitutes metaphysics rather than philosophy of science.

But early in the turtle's development, a portion of its body wall folds in on itself, forcing the ribs to fuse and thicken rather than wrapping round the body (Science, DOI: 10.1126 / science.11Science, DOI: 10.1126 / science.11science.1173826).

Early career indecisiveness induced me to choose for a broad biological sciences degree at Oxford, rather than a more specialised degree elsewhere — one of the most worthwhile moments of dithering I have ever had.

I am suggesting, rather, that it would be a good thing if that event were to motivate some self - analysis within our community about whether we're paying as much attention as we should be to the psychological well - being of science trainees and early - career scientists, from the undergraduate years through the postdoc and beyond.

Then, in 2015, the National Science Board endorsed proceeding from the design to the construction of the vessels — but advised NSF to include construction of two, rather than three, vessels in its future funding requests, following a recommendation for belt - tightening as laid out in the National Research Council's decadal survey for ocean sciences, released in early 2015.

Interestingly, he consulted the literature in a rather unexpected subject while conducting these calculations: winemaking — a science that involves, in part, dissolving sulfur dioxide in water to produce sulfites and bisulfites under oxygenless conditions similar to those on early Earth.

«I was an avid science fiction reader, and did rather well in early science and math classes.

No account of the glories of early Chinese, Indian or Islamic science is likely to remove conservative anxiety, and in the end the question would not seem to be about the kind of science which is compatible with Islam, but rather about the kind of Islam which is compatible with science.

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.

In fact, typing a couple of phrases from Mr. Holder's comment into scroogle.org turned up about a dozen identical posts in late 2009 to early 2010 in response to articles about the UEA e-mail theft, at mostly obscure and varied websites (i.e., ones where the audience isn't likely to have much knowledge of climate science) rather than the most prominent climate websites.

Rather than hold The Happening to the standards of the art house, or Shyamalan's earlier films, it's fairer to compare it to the B - grade science - fiction flicks of the 1950s.

Jeff Nichols» retro - tinged science fiction thriller Midnight Special looks like the type of film you don't want to know too much about before you see it — which means the tidbits we've gotten (a poster, an early trailer, one thrilling clip) are tantalizing rather than being especially revealing.

Yes, I know, there are other factors that contribute to their better score on the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA)-- longer school days, advanced science and math starting earlier in elementary school rather than high school, extra tutoring in Korean hagwons, less to learn with a more focused curriculum, no non-essential learning activities such as sports, home ec or computer applications courses.

It is a small signal that is not easy to detect amongst the natural variability; most of the anthropogenic warming is still to come (the point of conducting science is to give an early warning, rather than just wait until the facts are obvious to everyone).

However, the wording of the sentence: «the point of conducting science is to give an early warning, rather than just wait until the facts are obvious to everyone» is the weakest part of the entire argument.

Its cause is one of the hot topics in science at the moment, rather like the «Early Anthropogenic Hypothesis» to which it is related.

The change in regime wasn't «commons tragedy» based, but rather based on increased knowledge and science (believe it or not, Congress in the early 1990s was capable of making tough political decisions based on science).

My reasons are given in the earlier thread of a few days ago and a much earlier one when the paper first appeared, and I won't repeat them here, because this thread is about the behavior of scientists rather than the science per se.

Gray's crusade against global warming «hysteria» began in the early 1990s, when he saw enormous sums of federal research money going toward computer modeling rather than his kind of science, the old - fashioned stuff based on direct observation.

Moreover, the paper gets its history wrong when it notes that «Total cancer mortality rates did not decline until 1990, 25 years after the identification of the effect of smoking on lung and other cancers...» Well, actually, it was more like 50 years, because the earliest studies to connect smoking and lung cancer were conducted not by NIH - funded scientists but by Nazi scientists in the run - up to World War II.4 By the logic of the PNAS paper, then, ought we to be crediting the Nazi health science agenda with whatever progress has been made on reducing lung cancer, rather than the incredibly protracted and difficult public health campaign (that, for the most part, NIH had nothing to do with) aimed at getting people to cut down on smoking?

You say you need convincing that a «dogma» does not exist yet all you have thrived on to convince yourself it does exist is vague and broad attacks with a (with all due respect to your CV) a rather poor understanding of basic aspects of the science (such as the relevance of early 20th century attribution to modern day warming).