Sentences with phrase «for scientific culture»

The European Commission has declared 22 to 26 November European Week for Scientific Culture.

Gago presented his director's report in Brussels at the closing conference of the European Week for Scientific Culture at the end of January.

Not exact matches

They work to secure media attention for their own work as well as for plant - based and cultured meat companies, and they have been covered in more than 480 scientific and mainstream media venues.16 Little is known about the impact of these interventions on public opinion, though it seems that raising public awareness of cultured products may be valuable, especially since the field is so new.

Christian faith challenged the pessimism and resignation of ancient culture and unleashed new possibilities for political organization, cultural expression, scientific and technical exploration, and the emergence of the individual.

Bottum opines that we should prepare ourselves for the next chapter in the culture wars, in which the left here will get into step with its European compatriots, espousing a militant skepticism toward science while maintaining their polemic against the religious right, but this time for its uncritical embrace of scientific progress.

«Culture is «a study of perfection» which «moves by the force, not merely or primarily of the scientific passion for public knowledge, but also of the moral and social passion for doing good.»

For Genesis, that audience is an ancient near - eastern culture, not our modern scientific one.

Now we regard scientific technology with the same reverence that classical culture had for religious worldviews.

Unfortunately, a whole culture has arisen in this country that denies basic scientific facts at the behest of misguided religious and political groups for both idealogical and economic reasons.

... So the question for us is how to offer a coherent vision of society, culture and the human being to people who would like to understand where to put these dimensions - the spiritual and religious and the scientific.»

Since then, for a number of reasons (air and water pollution, health concerns ignored and in fact unknown by scientific medicine, ecological issues), this questioning of the omnicompetence of the scientific method to uncover the truth, and of the creative value of technological «progress,» has deepened and spread and now penetrates much further into the culture as a whole.

For like Whitehead and Dewey, Kadushin understood that the concept of organic thinking offered an approach to logic and the foundations of knowledge that was an alternative to the perversions of the sort of blind faith in natural science that had come to dominate the intellectual cultures of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries; an alternative that did not attempt to devalue science or replace it with a nonrational mysticism, but which did attempt to place scientific thought into a broader cultural context in which other forms of cultural expression such as religious and legal reasoning could play important and non-subservient roles.

The final result was the rejection within mainstream culture of biblical literalism with its repudiation of history, geology, and the scientific method, and an acceptance of the contributions of science, of evolution and Freudian psychology, of a «higher criticism» of the Bible, of the move from an agrarian economy to an industrial economy and its need for high technology, and of a rearrangement of political views to accommodate social planning and reform which became known in the churches as the Social Gospel.

It is difficult to deny that many of the potential dangers for humanity in the development of a scientific but secular culture outlined by Gaudium et Spes have now become a reality.

Enlightenment ideals provided a less controversial scientific basis for a common culture, but Protestantism played a significant supportive role, especially in its nonsectarian guise.

For better or worse, the controversy was upstaged when another rift began to develop, now between the traditional culture and the counterculture, which never had any doubt about whose bones the future resided in, and in fact was inclined to believe that literary and scientific intellectuals had long before entered into an unholy alliance to repress the questing human spirit.

The difference between education understood only as training in technical skills within the ideology of the economic growth and education for promoting a technical society within the framework of a culture of «scientific temper, humanism and the spirit of inquiry and reform», is indeed great.

Not only is there scientific evidence for it, but numerous cultures mention flood stories in their history.

For example, the historical and theological areas may be combined into an area described as «Interpretation of Christianity» while the older «practical» field is divided into two, one dealing with «Church and Culture» (sociological, psychological, and philosophical studies of church phenomena in American culture) and the other dealing with the practice of ministry construed as the application of social scientific and psychological theory to clergy responsibiCulture» (sociological, psychological, and philosophical studies of church phenomena in American culture) and the other dealing with the practice of ministry construed as the application of social scientific and psychological theory to clergy responsibiculture) and the other dealing with the practice of ministry construed as the application of social scientific and psychological theory to clergy responsibilities.

The Laboratory Manager should promote a culture of quality to the entire company and be an invaluable resource for scientific knowledge, training and education.

Former Washington Post Beijing bureau chief, Philip Pan, author of Out of Mao's Shadow: The Struggle for the Soul of a New China, discusses the science, technology, environment and culture of China with Scientific American's David Biello, who recently spent almost a month reporting from the country.

During college and his first years of graduate school at the University of Hawaii, Winter soaked up indigenous Hawaiian culture while also seeking scientific tools for understanding the local environment.

Fitzgerald found that «Hawkeye has proven to be a highly suitable popular culture character for use in scientific communication and outreach.

New research to be published January 13 in the journal Scientific Reports shows that some bacterial cultures adopt an all - for - one / one - for - all strategy that would make a socialist proud in preparing for the possibility of an antibiotic onslaught.

There is a certain scientific culture that is difficult to relate to for a nonscientist,» he says.

Much has been written about the triumph of geek culture, but what I am seeing all around goes deeper: not just a fondness for comic books and fantasy novels, but a wholesale embrace of scientific thinking in popular entertainment.

The march and its organisers have faced criticism for their approach to issues involving diversity of leadership and the inclusion of marginalised groups — problems that have long plagued scientific culture.

He likes nothing better than surfing journals the likes of Cereal Chemistry, Poultry Science, and The Bulletin of the Japanese Society of Scientific Fisheries.In fact, he's made a career of turning huge amounts of arcane food science, centuries of history and culture, and wonderfully oddball,just - for - the - heck - of - it facts into a good read for curious cooks and eaters.

One advantage of looking at «scientific culture» rather than «public understanding», is that it allows for preferences and interests as well as the substance of what is taught.

Most significant of all, for the formation of scientific culture, is the inclusion of science, in some form, in primary schools right across Europe.

Although this shift could give archaeologists more control, Kelly would rather see scientific inquiry balanced with respect for Native American culture.

Barriers to research replication are based largely in a scientific culture that pits researchers against each other in competition for scarce resources.

For those individuals subject to retrieval methods that left them bereft of contextual information or material culture, you may question what value to important scientific study might they be?

In a surprising and innovative move, the delegates also agreed that scientific findings from animal behavior research — including the concept that some cetacean species have cultures — should be considered in conservation decisions and strategies for these marine mammals.

Presumably New Scientist is not the most important place to raise this concern as its existence is a major challenge to the dominant culture, but as readers you might consider doing your bit for a new culture by giving science books to your less scientific friends and relatives for Christmas.

Additional support was provided by the Max Planck Society in Germany, a Grant - in - Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas and the G - COE program for the field of Chemistry from The Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology in Japan, and by Creative Scientific Research from The Japan Society for the Promotion of Science.

Because hers were the first human cells cultured continuously for use in research, Lacks» identity was revealed in a scientific journal in 1971 in reference to the landmark accomplishment.

Related sites The Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture, and Science The Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO)

The aim, according to Antonio Ruberti, the commissioner for research, «is to make European citizens and decision - makers more aware of the major issues of scientific culture and scientific education».

Funding for the study was provided by Japan Science and Technology Agency Strategic Basic Research Program ACT - C and Grant - in - Aid for Scientific Research (B) from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Japan.

In somewhat ambiguous language, the law demanded that CANU allow as members all those who joined DANU before September 2011 and «whose results in scientific or artistic endeavors have an extraordinary importance for the science, culture, or art of Montenegro and its general societal development.»

With Erez Aiden, Michel recently used millions of books digitized by Google to build a scientific tool for measuring trends in our shared culture, history, and language going back hundreds of years.

In the extreme, there is bred in our culture of science a level of entitlement to public financial support for research.When members of Congress fail to pass funding increase upon funding increase, year after year, the scientific community reacts with disbelief and indignation.

The work was supported by the National Science Foundation (DMR - 1307056), the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (Grant - in - Aid for Scientific Research (B), 15H03981), the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (Dynamic Alliance for Open Innovation Bridging Human, Environment and Materials) and the Center for Spintronics Research Network at Tohoku University.

For islet culture from Tg - hIAPP mice, isolated islets were cultured in RPMI - 1640 (11875 - 083; Thermo Fisher Scientific), supplemented with 10 % FBS, glutamine, and antibiotics at 37 °C in 5 % CO2.

Funding: This work was supported in part by the Grant - in - Aid for Scientific Research (B) and Grant - in - Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas «Systems Molecular Ethology» from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) of Japan.

His support for adult stem cell research, his sponsorship of the bi-annual Vatican Stem Cell Conferences, and his leadership in the field of renewable energy led to his appointment by the Vatican as Scientific Advisor to the President of the Pontifical Council for Culture of the Catholic Church and, most recently, as The Pontifical Council Admonitor and Senior Advisor in regards to Regenerative Medicine.

The impaired ability of human corneal endothelial cells (HCECs) to divide, both in vivo and in culture, has been well documented in the scientific literature for a number of years [1 - 6].

Key focus areas of the workshop will include: • Recognizing and understanding leadership in a science setting • Using negotiation as a tool in scientific discussions and problem solving • Identifying and resolving conflicts in the lab • Dealing with difficult people and situations in a scientific setting • Communicating your ideas and plans in a way that engages others • Leading productive scientific team and project meetings • Setting goals for and giving useful feedback to scientists • Creating a positive lab culture • Identifying, interviewing and hiring the best scientists for your team.

As part of one of his projects Shain tried to culture neurons, which means he tried to grow them in a petri dish (or, if you want to sound scientific you can say he was growing them in vitro, which is Latin for «in glass»).