Sentences with phrase «for much science»

And if you think that the UN pays for much science (mine included) then you clearly don't know much about how science works.

1 Arguably the inspiration for much science fiction traces back to classical mythology.

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As much as recent efforts to encourage women in STEM education and STEM jobs have helped move the needle a bit, the culture of science has often made life for women scientists harder than it already is — excluding them from clubby publishing and peer review networks and sometimes outright snubbing their achievements.

Or check out the complete CNN article for much more on the science of EQ.

The H1B highly skilled immigrant visa is limited to 65,000, with an additional 20,000 for holders of advanced degrees — not much when you consider that U.S. universities pump out 1 science graduate for every five China does.

According to a recent article by Stanford's Emma Seppälä for the Greater Good Science Center, «one of the most extensive studies on charisma found that charisma is not so much a gift as a learnable skill.»

By then, it's expensive and can often be too late in the process for medical science to do much good.

The government's Standing Committee on Industry, Science and Technology has released its report on e-commerce in Canada, titled «Pursuing the Promise,» and it paints the same picture we've known for some time now — that despite Canadians being among the most prodigious users of the Internet, they really aren't doing much online business-wise.

Since then, additional high - profile studies have come out — including an article, published in the journal of Psychological Science in the Public Interest, which found no evidence that brain games improve everyday cognition — but the topic is still very much up for debate.

Kevin Hogan, author of The Science of Influence, explains that «most people react to the fear of loss and the threat of pain in a much more profound way than they do for gain.»

Because beyond his typically bombastic proclamation that «it's already too late» for most women to become programmers is a much more important message: Computer science ought to be a basic part of school curriculum, giving both male and female students early exposure to an increasingly important skill set in today's economy.

Liboiron uses her position as the head of the Civic Laboratory for Environmental Action Research to advocate for open science hardware and lead «a small but growing movement for people who make technology and instruments open source,» something she describes as «very much against the model that runs many universities around the world.»

With so much science attesting to the enormous gap in effectiveness between email and face - to - face requests, why do so many people persist in opting for email?

Klemp believed in the science so much that he convinced investors to come on board for further research, including a repeat of all previous testing.

From implantable devices that provide a steady trickle of medicine over months, to patches that reduce the need for injections, to ingestible sensors that track how people take their meds, the bold new science of drug delivery may be doing as much to improve medicine as the medicines themselves in some cases.

And reams of social science research show that strong unions do much more than that: They bolster regional economies, increase democratic participation, and even strengthen the social safety net for non-unionized workers.

This is the first, in what will become a regular feature here on TheCloseShave.com, of low cost razor that I will be reviewing — not so much for the sake of science, but curiosity.

«We now know that young people who are going into the office for the first time are making decisions about who they work for not based on how much they're getting paid, but on the space design,» ASID president Randy Fiser told members of the design community at the recent Science of Design Conference at Liberty Science Center in New Jersey.

However much time they have — and in my opinion they are unlikely to have much more than 2 - 3 years in which to get credit growth under control, but there is no science to this so I can not know for sure — as Beijing moves forward in its struggle to rebalance the Chinese economy, we should keep three things in mind:

«To the extent that Japan devalues, the nature of its trade with its neighbors is one in which Japan is selling lots of capital equipment that they need, and capital equipment becomes that much cheaper, that would be a gift to its trading partners,» says Richard Samuels, Ford International professor of political science and director of the Center for International Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

But it is much, much more logical to use science to try and find out why we are here than just settling for whatever holy book it is you worship as truth and leaving it at that.

If you studied science, including evolution theory yourself, it would be much easier for you to believe in it.

Types of Moral Argumentation Regarding Homosexuality by Pim Pronk Eerdmans, 350 pages, $ 24.99 paper An interesting book not so much for the position it advances (approval of homosexual relations) as for the claim that any position on homosexuality (or anything else) must be reached on the basis of moral reflection independent of nature, science, or theology.

Not so much for the supernatural but for everyday guidance for a thousand ethical questions people are going have driven by science and money — as well as recognizing divine moments.

In a somewhat different vein, Tracy and Lash, while agreeing that the anthropic principle is untenable in science, find a certain kind of anthropocentrism appropriate in theology: (1) human beings are both products of and interpreters of the evolutionary process; (2) human beings are responsible for much of our world's ills: «if we are the «center» of anything, we are the center of «sin,» of the self - assertive disruption and unraveling of the process of things, at least on our small planet» (Tracy and Lash, 280).

The development of a new philosophy of science which radically questions the earlier mechanical - materialistic world - view within which classical modern science worked and also the search for a new philosophy of technological development and struggle for social justice which takes seriously the concern for ecological justice, are very much part of the contemporary situation.

For one thing, Hegel says as much: «As science, truth is pure self - consciousness in its self - development and has the shape of the self, so that the absolute truth of being is the known Notion and the Notion as such is the absolute truth of being (das an und für sich seiende).

Thanks to modern natural science these wholes can for Whitehead be much more closely investigated than they could for Aristotle with his rudimentary means of observation.

Some of it we put to use in technology, but much «big» science is for the sheer love of knowing how the universe began or what atoms are made of.

Much of the business of science is in imagining stuff we can't see (representational for all of our senses), then going forth to prove our hypothesis.

So much for God and science working together.

For those who think in this way, changing the structures of thought and perception built into so much of our science would be too indirect a contribution to the relief of suffering to be a true expression of Buddhist compassion.

Writing in Science (January 27, 1984), R. Jeffrey Smith shows that the deployment of the cruise missile, for example, resulted not as much from the Soviets» previous deployment of the SS20 as it did from commercial and political forces in the West.

The Holy Quran is all about giving simplified examples for the brains of that time, and addressed to illiterate Nomadic Beduins of the dry Arabian desert to understand and they have managed to do understand it and achieved miraculously for centuries in creating a multinational Islamic communities that has contributed so much to today's knowledge and science.

There are long passages in the last chapter of Science and the Modern World, for instance, which could easily have served as the source of some of Leopold's ideas, and which suggest that Leopold's notion of community could be derived from Whitehead's theory of organism without much difficulty.

Simple meteorological science is just too much for Austin or Rainy to grasp.

It serves other purposes that explain its length — for being such a devotee to science you show way to much blind faith in Richard Dawkins!

In the science community, you are rewarded as much for de-bunking bad science as for discovering new science.

Once you realize that the Bible does not purport to be a textbook of science, the old controversy between religion and science vanishes... The doctrine of the Trinity is much more abstruse than anything in relativity or quantum mechanics; but, being necessary for salvation, the doctrine is stated in the Bible.

as much as science interests me, i still rely on the bible for the truth.

There is nothing in the theory of evolution, nor in astronomy, or in geology, nor in paleontology, or any other branch of the sciences which contradicts Christianity, or any other type of theism (except Mormonism — we know scientifically that the Indian peoples of the Americas are not descended from the Jews — which is a key point of belief for them, much more central than there having been a literal Garden of Eden is for classical Christianity or Judaism).

And if anyone is afraid that he is in for some kind of esoteric rigmarole, may I try to alleviate his fears by remarking that the lecturers are all children of the twentieth century as much as they are professing Christians, alive to the astounding advances of contemporary science and technology, alive also to the deep — seated moral and cultural skepticism which has developed side by side with an increasing moral passion and sensitivity.

you're appealing to scientific findings as a basis for compassion... and yet science can not even define LIFE... much less compassion.

The importance of the medieval thinkers Buridan and Oresme for science had been rediscovered by the great twentieth - century French physicist Pierre Duhem, whose own work Jaki has done so much to restore to the prominence it deserves.

Science once said smoking was good for you, eating butter was bad for you, eating eggs was terrible for you, and decaffeinated coffee was much better for you.

In light of this fourfold division, it appears that the current disputes about Darwin and design are at bottom not so much conflicts between science and religion as disagreements about whether there is room for only one level — not a plurality of levels — on which to understand the story of life.

The mainstream mathematical culture, which, regardless of ontological commitment, is driven as much by esthetics as by science, seems to have had little meaning for him.

A general review of the endnotes from Gunter's paper reveals a fair number of sources who will corroborate the claim that Bergson's scientific views are nor only not outdated, but go very» much to the heart of current scientific methods and insights, but particularly, see A. C. Papanicolaou and Pete A. N. Gunter, eds., Bergson in Modern Thought Towards a Unified Science (New York: Harwood Academic Publishers, 1987), and for important background on how Bergson came to be seen as dated when he was not, see also, Milic Capek, Bergson and Modern Physics, (cited above) and The Philosophical Impact of Contemporary Physics (Princeton, NJ: Van Nostrand, 1961), and the volume edited by Gunter, Bergson and the Evolution of Physics (cited above).

... and how much worse it would be if she had relied on prayer rather than science - based medical care for her child.

As the developing sciences began to get into their stride, and that brings us into the last hundred years, there was a tendency for them, having refuted so much of what Christian orthodoxy took for granted, to establish their own form of dogmatism.