Sentences with phrase «for scientific talks»

Often these figures are not optimal for scientific talks or oral or written presentations to audience members from outside the field.

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This is the first thing we talk about in Lean Startup because you can not do any of the techniques of Lean Startup — the rapid experimentation, the scientific approach, the broad development — none of it makes any sense and can't work unless you have a vision for what you are trying to accomplish.

Netflix description: «Emmy - winning host Bill Nye brings experts and famous guests to his lab for a talk show exploring scientific issues that touch our lives.»

Sometimes scientific findings of such head - slapping obviousness — talking on the phone makes you a worse driver and men generally favor large breasts, for example — that they make the average lay person wonder how anyone ever got funding to investigate the question in the first place.

For all those who are talking to themselves today, thinking that some supernatural deity is listening to them, please seek professional psychiatric help before you hurt someone or yourself in the name of your sky fairy, vote against others» rights, or promote your chosen flavor of insanity over the scientific method.

«The European talks of progress because by the aid of a few scientific discoveries he has established a society which has mistaken comfort for civilization».

And now we get to watch while Creationists imprison Nye in a tower until he recants his sacreligous talk much in the way Galileo was imprisoned by the Church for supporting the scientific theory that the Earth revolves around the Sun rather than the universe revolving around the Earth.

’28 Kuhn's portrayal of normal science as dominated by unchallenged dogmas, his failure to specify criteria for paradigm choice, and his talk of «conversion» and «persuasion» all seem to these critics to threaten the objectivity and rationality of the scientific enterprise.

There is therefore a foundation for distinguishing scientific talk from theological talk in one and the same world.

It is not necessary for me to recount why Bultmann finds this incredibility in the form; suffice it to say that he is not committed to any particular scientific world - view, although Jaspers and others have charged him with this, but is simply stating that the contemporary man does not as a matter of fact think or talk in terms of such a form.

When a believer bit.ches and moans about how if gay marriage is legalized, next is polygamy, in.cest and beastiality, (because for some reason all of those things are related) and we reject that because 1) beastiality is stupid because we're talking about two consenting adults 2) Polygamy is not really immoral but just incredibly tricky legally to design docu.ments that would make sense and 3) inc.est has some scientific ramifications and most of us can agree that as far as icky se.xual stuff goes, that ones a doozy.

The Voyager series threw out the word «quantum» about as much as Chopra does, and I suspect for the same reason: It sounds scientific - ish, and helps make it appear like they know what they're talking about.

It's far too easy for theists to talk people into philosophical circles, causing them to lose sight of the scientific and logical shortcomings of their beliefs.

I have no idea what your talking about, I've called for our Governor to answer with Scientific data the questions New Yorkers have about Fracking, and if the Science is right and questions are addressed in a rational manner we can decide as a State if Fracking is feasible.

Asked about including new rules for scientific research of guns in the bill, Emanuel suggested that was extraneous, comparing it to the distracting talk of «midnight basketball» programs the last time Congress tried to pass major gun control legislation in the early 1990s.

Gadêlha and the Oxford SIAM committee planned the agenda of the events they will hold this academic year, including an induction day for newcomers, student seminars, scientific talks by professors, networking events, visits to industry campuses, and an annual conference.

For Aguilar, who learned about the program from a professor, «I thought it would be a really great way to practice scientific communication and talk about conservation.»

Scientific American staffers Mark Fischetti and Robin Lloyd talk with podcast host Steve Mirsky about sessions they attended — including those about algae for energy, dissecting the astronomy in art, and attitudes about climate change — at the recent meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

One thing is for sure: While you may not be able to talk in scientific terms about what makes a basketball shoe the greatest, you still know it when you see it.

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For the Insights story, «Beating the Flu in a Single Shot, «appearing in the June 2008 Scientific American, Alexander Hellemans talked with Walter Fiers of Ghent University in Belgium.

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Jon Foley, director of the University of Minnesota's Institute on the Environment, talks with podcast host Steve Mirsky (pictured) about his article in the April issue of Scientific American, «Boundaries for a Healthy Planet».

For Science Talk, the podcast of Scientific American, I am Steve Mirsky.

Welcome to Science Talk, the weekly podcast of Scientific American for the seven days starting August 22nd.

This was the gist of a talk Newman delivered on a cool, gray day last fall to a packed lecture hall in the cavernous Boston Convention and Exhibition Center, where more than 5,000 emergency physicians from around the world gathered for the Scientific Assembly of the American College of Emergency Physicians.

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At the recent meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Stony Brook University's Robert Crease talked about how a 1999 article in Scientific American on Brookhaven National Laboratory's Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider and a future Nobel laureate got a few people thinking the planet was in jeopardy.

Ulrich, for instance, writes about «the need for research to establish scientific guidelines to help interior designers select art that is reliably stress reducing and physiologically supportive...» But he is talking only about art in hospitals and in other medical contexts, where he believes the sole critical standard is whether art «improves outcomes in patients, and if it doesn't, it's bad art.»

Trevor Mundel, president of global health at the Gates Foundation, talks to Scientific American editor - in - chief Mariette DiChristina about the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) and the efforts to create vaccine platforms for rapid responses to epidemics.

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Author and journalist Carl Zimmer talks about the search for the physiological and biological basis of intelligence, the subject of his article in the October issue of Scientific American magazine.

Well that's it for this edition of the Scientific American's Science Talk.

Welcome to Science Talk, the weekly podcast of Scientific American for the seven days starting October 1st, 2008.

For Science Talk, the podcast of Scientific American, I'm Steve Mirsky.

Welcome to Science Talk, the weekly podcast of Scientific American for the seven days starting November 22nd.

This year O.H.S.U. is hosting seven weeks of activities, including talks by leading brain researchers and science writers such as Jonah Lehrer (a contributing editor for Scientific American Mind), a workshop for teachers, a brain fair and a scientifiScientific American Mind), a workshop for teachers, a brain fair and a scientificscientific meeting.

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Social scientist Roly Russell, of the Sandhill Institute in British Columbia, talked with Scientific American's Mark Fischetti at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science about potentially better measures than GDP of a nation's well - being

Scott: Well, we talked about this a lot and we've been working with the scientific societies and education societies that we work with, but we also work with the celebrities community and so we have a kind of a broader range of folks that we interact with than most science co-organizations because, you know, National Center for Science Education is this very odd hybrid of an activist organization, but still a scholarly organization at the same time so.

Listen for clips from some of these lectures on the Scientific American Science Talk podcast, including Fovell's explanation as to why the notion of a freezing air mass that descends on New York City in the movie The Day After Tomorrow is goofy.

At climate talks in Copenhagen a year ago, delegates were galvanised by the scientific arguments for reaching an agreement to cut emissions.

Steve: Welcome to Science Talk, the weekly podcast of Scientific American for the seven days starting December 19th, I am Steve Mirsky.

Steve: Welcome to Science Talk, the weekly podcast of Scientific American for the seven days starting May 28th, 2008.

For more on this work, check out the August 25th episode of Science Talk, the weekly Scientific American podcast.

In this episode, Liz Johnson and Felicity Arengo from the American Museum of Natural History take Scientific American podcast host Steve Mirsky for a walk in the park — Central Park — to talk about the spring bird migration and the role that Central Park and other green spaces plays in the lives of birds and other animals.

Scientific American's David Biello talks about his article in the November issue that examines America's nuclear arsenal and options for the future and Scientific American Mind magazine «sKaren Schrock gives us a rundown from the big neuroscience meeting, that she attended last week.

Well that's it for this edition for Scientific American's Science Talk.