Sentences with phrase «event of the world science»

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Today's announcement was made by Nils Christian Stenseth, President of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, and transmitted live at the opening event of the World Science Festival in New York.

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IT has been interesting to see how the world's biggest sporting event, the Olympic Games has highlighted the deficiencies in our support of science.

The sold - out, member - only event will bring a powerhouse group of the world's leading health systems together to showcase and explore «The Art & Science of Weird Pairings and Random Engineered Collisions.»

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The fact that our knowledge of the natural world has changed and our belief about the cause of natural events has changed over time only highlights the importance of Science.

Taken to refer to the history of ideas, they seem to name the periods before, during, and after the Enlightenment; but taken to refer to the history of events, they seem to name the period from creation to the rise of science, the period from the rise of science until World War II, and the period since the war.

But you should at least be honest and know that one who believes in the forensic science of origins of life has to have as much faith in the person asserting the theory as one has to have believing God was the witness to the event and told man kind how the world came about in simplistic terms.

Economics is not a natural science, describing how events in the world of production and distribution must occur, whether by the laws of the free market or by the dialectic of economic determinism.

What is created is a world believable on its own terms, so that the reader need exercise no suspension of disbelief, experience no conflict with science, no dislocation through the necessity of discovering what characters and events «mean.»

Because Troeltsch, at the beginning of this century, was keenly aware of many trends that became apparent to most observers only at its end: the collapse of Eurocentrism; the perceived relativity of all historical events and knowledge (including scientific knowledge); an awareness that Christianity is relative to its Western, largely European history and environment; the emergence of a profound global pluralism; the central role of practice in theology; the growing impact of the social sciences on our view of the world and of ourselves; and dramatic changes in the role of religious institutions and religious thought.

He (and others) posit that the Muslim world turned it's back on science with the advent of fundamentalism around the 12th century — in the form of Al - Ghazali who (according to wikipedia) embraced a form of theological occasionalism, or the belief that all causal events and interactions are not the product of material conjunctions but rather the immediate and present Will of God.

From the natural order of the world comes its dependability, without which there would be no science, no ordered control of physical forces or events, none of the security which comes from knowing that the physical world is at least in large measure calculable.

Beyond astronomy, the more one understands about the physical sciences and the world we live on, the more you come to see that it is too dang perfect to be the result of some random, godless cosmic event.

Especially in his earlier writings (including the earlier sections of Science and the Modern World), Whitehead develops a theory of overlapping events characterized by reiterated patterns, showing how sub-events may be organically influenced by the patterns of the events within which they are included.

Science seeks in the objective world the causes of all the events that transpire in it.

If we step out of the strictures of science, however, there is an alternative to this nonpurposive view of chance: it could be an occurrence whose cause lies outside the world of discourse in which the event is considered.

However, Science and the Modern World also introduces the epochal theory of time, which stands as a great modification of Whitehead's event ontology.

This modern assumption that the world view of modern science is absolute is, we think, the reason for Bultmann's repeated retreat from revelation as an historical event into an abstract philosophy of life.

The classic example is the insertion of the «Epochal Theory of Time» in Science and the Modern World, forcing the eventual transformation of what, in that book, had initially been a Spinozistic approach to creativity as the one, undifferentiated underlying activity (with «events» of varied temporal duration as the «modes» of this underlying process) toward the Leibnizian monadology of actual entities (each a kind of time - quantum) that finally appeared subsequently in Process and Reality.

The closed world view of modern science, both in physics and in psychology, leaves no room for a unique historical event with an eschatological — i.e. final and absolute — significance.

Perhaps the most notable annual event in the science - faith world, at least for the wider public, is the awarding of the Templeton Prize.

Now, all the effective components in this picture — the instructional interactions and the events with a specific character, into which they are drawn together — have the character of intentions, so we are already, in our basic view of science, in a world in which conceptions of Value are at least not foreign and maybe are inescapable.

Beginning with Science and the Modern World, Whitehead concluded that science itself requires that the knower be included in nature, and he supplemented his earlier treatment of events with a discussion of their internal Science and the Modern World, Whitehead concluded that science itself requires that the knower be included in nature, and he supplemented his earlier treatment of events with a discussion of their internal science itself requires that the knower be included in nature, and he supplemented his earlier treatment of events with a discussion of their internal aspect.

It should be noted that while medieval scholars relied heavily on final causes in their descriptions of the natural world, modern developments in the natural sciences since the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries have placed almost exclusive emphasis on efficient cause as the basic determinant of physical and biological events.

The progress of science consists in observing... interconnections [between events] and in showing with a patient ingenuity that the events of this ever - shifting world are but examples of a few general connexions or relations called laws.

In total 103 oral presentations and 35 poster presentations built the core of this event triggering fruitful discussions on the state - of - science in measuring, preserving and enhancing soil organic carbon in different soils of the world.

Kids learned about science, crafts and the natural world on Maker Faire's Education Day, before the official kickoff of the two - day event.

For the first time, researchers and practitioners from across the UK are coming together to discuss CLO as well as rural health and community resilience in other parts of the world at an event during the Economic and Social Research Council's (ESRC) Festival of Social Science.

According to the Climate Science Special Report released on Nov. 2, heavy precipitation events are becoming more frequent and intense in most regions of the world.

Speaking at the launch event, Barbara Schaal, AAAS president - elect and distinguished professor in the department of biology in arts and sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, praised the THSB curriculum because it begins to introduce students to an interdisciplinary way of looking at the world.

«It thrills me to no end that people all over the world took a break from their normal activities to go outside and celebrate the interplanetary salute between robot and maker that these images represent,» said Carolyn Porco, Cassini imaging team lead at the Space Science Institute in Boulder, Colo. «The whole event underscores for me our «coming of age» as planetary explorers.»

Rami Tzabar, development editor for BBC Radio Science and World Service, called the story «a forensic analysis of everything that is wrong with current (and past) attitudes to flooding, an innate misguided belief that every major event is a freak of nature and that we can engineer our way out of the problem whilst largely ignoring the cause.»

The day - long event was organized by the AAAS Center for Science Diplomacy and drew more than 200 people, including representatives from the U.S. State Department and other federal agencies, as well as leaders from UNESCO and The World Academy of Sciences in Trieste, Italy, and the Costa Rican ambassador to the United States.

The event is an outgrowth of a global movement meant to draw attention to the value of science and to encourage scientists around the world to stand up for science and commit to a renewed focus and active participation in communication and advocacy activities.

The event reflects the increasing awareness of the important role that science diplomacy is gaining in a complex world where challenges cross geographical borders, and demand the knowledge and tools of science and technology to resolve.

The prize winner of the essay contest will be a guest of honor at the AAAS / Science «Hawaii - style» event at the world - renowned Halekulani Hotel on Waikiki beach to be held on Monday, May 18, 2009.

In 2008 he cofounded the World Science Festival, an annual event that brings together scientists, artists, and ordinary people who are simply interested in the great questions of the universe.

E = mc2: The Great Ideas That Shaped Our World By Pete Moore, Friedman / Fairfax Exclusive to Discover from Barnes & Noble Booksellers We also like... Books Mind Over Matter: Conversations With the Cosmos K. C. Cole, Harcourt, $ 25 In this collection of 92 short essays, Cole, a columnist for the Los Angeles Times, ponders how science affects our daily lives, and conversely, how the events of everyday life inspire scientists.

Billed by organizers as both a celebration of science and part of a movement to defend science's vital role in society, the event will include rallies and demonstrations in Washington, D.C., and more than 400 other cities around the world.

Since then, we've posted more than 5000 stories about new findings, science policy, and events from the world of research.

«Most of what happens on current engines is entity search — I'm looking for information about a musician, an event or a product,» explains Tetherless World Professor of Computer and Cognitive Science James Hendler, director of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute's Institute for Data Exploration and Applications.

Indeed, in another paper in the same issue of Science, Goran Ekstrom of Harvard University reported a marked increase in so - called glacial earthquakes (seismic events recorded throughout the world when Greenland's glaciers slip past rock) since 2002.

That's the weekend staked out for the World Science Festival, a scattered constellation of panels, interviews, debates, workshops and cultural events in New York City.

Encouraged by the success of the World Conference on Science, the Hungarian Academy of Sciences initiated a series of events called World Science Forum taking place biannually in Budapest.

The Project The Raising Risk Awareness project seeks to assess the role of human - induced climate change in the risk of extreme weather events in developing countries and identify how such scientific evidence could help to bridge the science - communications - policy gap, and enable these countries and communities to become more resilient in a warming world.

World Science Forum (WSF), an outcome of the 1999 World Conference on Science, is a biennial event that since 2003 has been successfully assembling scientists, decision - makers from the world of politics and industry, representatives of civil society and the media to discuss critical global issues and the contribution of science towards meeting the challenges they preWorld Science Forum (WSF), an outcome of the 1999 World Conference on Science, is a biennial event that since 2003 has been successfully assembling scientists, decision - makers from the world of politics and industry, representatives of civil society and the media to discuss critical global issues and the contribution of science towards meeting the challenges they pScience Forum (WSF), an outcome of the 1999 World Conference on Science, is a biennial event that since 2003 has been successfully assembling scientists, decision - makers from the world of politics and industry, representatives of civil society and the media to discuss critical global issues and the contribution of science towards meeting the challenges they preWorld Conference on Science, is a biennial event that since 2003 has been successfully assembling scientists, decision - makers from the world of politics and industry, representatives of civil society and the media to discuss critical global issues and the contribution of science towards meeting the challenges they pScience, is a biennial event that since 2003 has been successfully assembling scientists, decision - makers from the world of politics and industry, representatives of civil society and the media to discuss critical global issues and the contribution of science towards meeting the challenges they preworld of politics and industry, representatives of civil society and the media to discuss critical global issues and the contribution of science towards meeting the challenges they pscience towards meeting the challenges they present.

-- Purpose After the highly successful 2015 World Science Forum held in Budapest, Hungary, the Royal Scientific Society of Jordan will host the 2017 biennial event themed «Science for Peace».

For Lisa, tying science exploration to real - world events, issues, and problems is all part of the science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) education process.

The sharing of knowledge is at the heart of the event, especially through its science programme which will include numerous seminars, workshops and debates led by world - renowned scientists on the latest breakthroughs in research.