The extraordinary
gulf between science and education was on sharp display this week.
Indeed, wrath and outrage are the only sane and appropriate responses to
the gulf between science and practice that, as Seidenberg notes, places millions of children at risk of reading failure, discriminates against poorer children, and discourages children who might have become successful readers.
So there is some sort of a strange
gulf between science and politics.
Forum: Time for an end to tribal warfare — Jeffrey Williams says
the gulf between the sciences and the arts should be bridged
March 28, 2018 • We all stand to lose from
the gulf between the sciences and the humanities, and the classroom is the ideal place for conversations between these two cultures to unfold, says professor Marcelo Gleiser.
Not exact matches
The same issue of the Daily Telegraph concluded its comments in an editorial: «How refreshing to be able to report a possible breakthrough that narrows rather than widens the
gulf between cutting - edge
science and traditional morality.»
At least seven immense, interdependent threats to the quality of life on spaceship earth continue to escalate: the population explosion; the widening
gulf between rich and poor nations; massive malnutrition (caused mainly by economic injustice, which produces maldistribution of available food); environmental pollution and degradation; the depletion of the irreplaceable resources of our finite planet; the growing threat of nuclear terrorism and eventual holocaust (with the equivalent of one and a half million Hiroshima - sized bombs in the arsenals of the world); and the worldwide tendency for the fruits of
science and technology to be used without ethical responsibility.
This can indeed be found in «A» level Religion and Philosophy revision books, and does little to help us combat the polemic of the
gulf between Religion and
Science.
A
gulf has opened
between science - workforce policy - makers and the mass of young scientists whose ranks they seek to expand.
True, those clients are not extra-terrestrials, but there is a wide
gulf between the worlds of law and
science, and Thompson's new job is to span it.
A common criticism of the
gulf between researchers and the public in
science understanding and interest is that many researchers aren't able to explain their work in terms the average American can understand or find relevance in.
She feeds the interested nonspecialist reader like myself lucid (and slightly heterodox) pocket accounts of Galileo's trial, of the relations
between science and magic, of quantum physics and general relativity theory and the
gulf between them, of superstring theory and the current belief in ten dimensions — simplifying the complexities of 2500 years of history gracefully and without strain.
So over the last six months, a vast
gulf has opened up
between the media - stoked perception that the climate
science has been exaggerated and the research - driven evidence that the true situation is worse than we thought.
But to so fundamentally misunderstand scientific peer - review (and how scientists talk about it) reminded me just how big the
gulf still is
between the scientific community and even the best
science reporting in the media.
Mergers are anticipated
between National Bank of Abu Dhabi (NBAD) and First
Gulf Bank (FGB), Mubadala Development Company and the International Petroleum Investment Company (Ipic), and Abu Dhabi has revealed plans to merge two oil production arms of the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) and is working on merging its three
science and technology centres.