Sentences with phrase «ideas about biology»
Those who believe these nonsensical ideas DO hold the rest back - be it in creationist ideas about biology, or stem cell research, or limiting over-population via contraception, you name it.
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Think about that for a moment: Are we so delicate that we can not address even the idea that biology may play a role in the types of careers we have?
«The idea of being able to use biology to design and engineer living things that can do things like cure disease or eliminate organ waiting lists, or even revert climate change, or help us live on other planets — that's more what was exciting about it,» he says.
We have appointments that can't be changed, bills that need to be paid, work that can't be done flexibly, and ideas about what our children should be doing that have no basis in biology.
Project 2061 receives funding to develop a multimedia curriculum unit to help high school biology students understand complex ideas about energy.
Tom Kirkwood of Newcastle University, UK, disagrees with the idea of a limit to human lifespan: «The idea does not really fit what we already know about the biology of the ageing process.
Above all, synthetic biology «requires a new way of thinking about biology: the idea that cells are machines and they can be rebuilt the way that electrical engineers now design circuits [and] instruments,» Glass says.
He presented his idea one day to a roomful of about 30 colleagues at Yale's «Worm Meeting,» the weekly gathering for researchers studying C. elegans, the lowly nematode widely used as a model organism in developmental biology.
His quip that «politics is applied biology» was used by the Nazis, as were his ideas about the positioning of races on the Darwinian template that he is crediting with inventing: the evolutionary tree.
One of the most delightful, witty, and beautifully written of all natural histories, The Voyage of the Beagle recounts the young Darwin's 1831 to 1836 trip to South America, the Galápagos Islands, Australia, and back again to England, a journey that transformed his understanding of biology and fed the development of his ideas about evolution.
Using methods and ideas from mathematics, physics and biology, they characterized the shape of eggs from about 1,400 species of birds and developed a model that explains how an egg's membrane determines its shape.
The findings are «very surprising» and will lead to a revision of basic ideas about auxin biology, says Mark Estelle, a biochemist at the University of Texas, Austin.
Clark had always liked the idea of international cooperation; he had been active since 1969 in planning summer school courses about molecular biology on the Greek island of Spetses, which were funded by the Advanced Study Institutes program of NATO, the European Molecular Biology Organization, and the Federation of European Biochemical Societies.
We tried to keep an open mind but some of the ideas we had — including an aberrant immune reaction — were beyond what we thought is amenable to study in wildlife diseases, given that so much less is known about wildlife biology than human or laboratory animal biology.
«There's lots of different ideas about what might be happening, but we don't know yet what the underlying biology is,» Snyder said.
The basic idea in the grant proposal was that teachers had to overcome their squeamishness in talking about sex; indeed, they needed to learn how to stand in front of the classroom and describe intimate body parts using their students» vernacular, rather than the technical terms found in biology textbooks.
While many people blame standardized testing for narrowing the elementary school curriculum to reading and math, the real culprit is «a longstanding pedagogical notion that the best way to teach kids reading comprehension is by giving them skills — strategies like «finding the main idea — rather than instilling knowledge about things like the Civil War or human biology.»
It's a longstanding pedagogical notion that the best way to teach kids reading comprehension is by giving them skills — strategies like «finding the main idea» — rather than instilling knowledge about things like the Civil War or human biology.
Very interesting (especially the bit about tracking movements... LOL) I like the idea of a colour reader for «how to» books, and a biology textbook in blk / whte is just not the same.
True, the theory of common descent through natural selection has been called the unifying concept for all of biology and one of the greatest scientific ideas of all time, but that was no excuse to be fanatics about it.
The Next Generation Science Standards lay out core ideas K - 12 students should understand about the basics of science — from biology, to physics and chemistry, to earth science.
He has half - baked ideas that defy the laws of physics, aka pseudo-science, and a folksy surface charm that appeals to some (but not all from what I've read) people who for some weird reason have an aversion to accepting or learning about basic physics, chemistry, biology, geology, oceanography and any and all earth system sciences.
The American preference for basing custody decisions for the very young on biology rather than on relationships is based on three ideas about parent - child relationships.