Sentences with phrase «in older sciences»

Women were effectively «on sufferance» in Oxbridge, particularly in older sciences such as physics and chemistry, in which they were a small minority.

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Saujani, whose six - year - old organization is tackling the gender gap in tech by training young girls in computer science, encouraged the nation's business leaders to double down on the effort in a wide - ranging panel discussion on attracting and retaining diverse talent.

The pair (Zeki, who is older, was studying computer science; Haroon, economics) designed websites for family and friends in their spare time, and quickly realized a website - creation tool would be a lot more efficient.

By summer the development staff had working demos of Sammy's Science House, the third in Edmark's early - learning line; Thinkin» Things 2, the second in its critical - thinking line for 4 - to 8 - year - olds; and the first two titles in a line called Imagination Express, a series of interactive story - writing programs for 6 - to 12 - year - olds.

But back in the day, in 1998, she was just an 18 - year - old computer geek, sitting in her dream class at her dream school, getting the stink eye from her computer science professor and trying not to cry.

Noah Ready - Campbell, who grew up in a small mountain town in Vermont, and Calvin Young, a Chinese immigrant whose family settled in the Virginia when he was 2 years old, both landed scholarship admission to boarding school (Philips Exeter and North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics, respectively).

And on the 2015 PISA — a worldwide exam that tests 15 - year - olds» math, science, and reading skills — Singapore was the top - performing country in each subject.

It's the science behind gut instinct, and it's why Gretzky, after thousands of hours spent on his backyard rink and playing in competitive leagues with older boys, was able to anticipate where the play was going.

The oldest technical research university in the US, Rensselaer Polytechnic is grounded by two principles: Help students apply science to everyday life, and use teaching methods not used in a typical classroom.

Mariah Jones, a 29 - year - old resident of the District who studies political science at George Washington University, said she thought Obama should have waited until after the final votes were cast in the primary contests to endorse — though she thought endorsements from top Democratic leaders were predictable.

Growing cells in Petri dishes sounds like the stuff of science fiction, but the basic elements of the science are actually decades old.

According to the latest report from the Chinese Academy of Social Science, it costs 490,000 yuan ($ 77,165) to raise a child from birth to 16 years old in an average city in China.

On any given day, Canada's leading researchers unravel the mysteries of biology in state - of - the - art labs throughout the Toronto Medical Discovery Tower and the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research; early - stage science and technology companies put business plans into action in the MaRS Incubator; organizations across the innovation spectrum grow their businesses in the Heritage Building — the original brick façade of the old Toronto General Hospital.

It takes faith to believe (as I stated before) that a 2,000 year old book has more correct Science in it than modern Science textbooks.»

A 17 - year - old California girl won $ 100,000 in a national science competition for her creation of a nanoparticle that can target and kill cancer cells.

What science fails to realize is that in addition to Evolution, we also have Mitochondrial Eve, who is roughly 5,000 years old, and who has been proven to be a common ancestor to humanity as a species.

Time to wake up and stop this silly belief in imaginary old world ideas and embrace science and reason.

You try being a 6 year old kid with an interest in science explaining how anything can travel fast enough to drop presents to every kid in the world.

Well, if it comes down to holy books, the oldest of the scriptures — the Rigveda of India has a take which is very different and much more in accordance with what science is finding:

But it's an entirely different thing if you completely ignore the Science and place you faith in a 2,000 year old book and you believe that book has more science in it than a modern sciencScience and place you faith in a 2,000 year old book and you believe that book has more science in it than a modern sciencscience in it than a modern sciencescience book.

When it was first said that the sun stood still and the world turned round, the common sense of mankind declared the doctrine false; but the old saying of Vox populi, vox Dei, as every philosopher knows, can not be trusted in science.

It matters when they get legislation passed at the state level to mandate illegitimate «science» be taught in schools, such that refutes big bang cosmology, evolutionary biology and an 11 billion year old universe / multiverse and 4.6 billion year old solar system.

These efforts gathered steam in the early years of the last century as the Progressive Movement sought at once to break the power of the old party bosses and to bring the insights of the social sciences to bear on public life.

Being LGBT is not a choice (regardless of what the 2000 year old book states, science says different and it is what science states that matters in the real world), there is no cure for it and there are plenty of people who are LGBT that are better christians than you could ever wish to be.

Women in Science: 50 Fearless Pioneers Who Changed the World by Rachel Ignotofsky — This could count as a picture book, I guess — the illustrations are so charming — but it's written with older girls in mind so I tucked it into this section.

First in the United States, then in France, Italy, Spain, and Latin America, more recently in Holland, Belgium, and Germany, and now at last in Great Britain, serious attention is being paid to its work, not least among Roman Catholics who are impatient with the older Thomism, which for so long has been quasi-official in that communion, and who are looking for a conceptuality which will be comprehensive in its sweep, open to newer knowledge and science, and available for Christian use.

I've watched in growing frustration as this false dichotomy has convinced my friends to leave the faith altogether when they examine the science and find it incompatible with a 6,000 - year - old earth.

When I was a teenager, my family moved to Dayton, Tennessee, a town famous for prosecuting and convicting a science professor for teaching evolution in 1925, and which sits right on the path of the old Trail of Tears.

And, he explicitly argues that this «traditional conservatism,» which is by the way, not an ideology, has the potential to address the age - old problems related to political science, while implicitly suggesting the possibility of recapturing man's tensional existence in the Platonic Metaxy, thereby restoring the order necessary to illuminate the divine - human encounter.

I believe the 85 year old (or whomever is in charge of the body once they are passed), should have the option of bequeathing their body to science and should the scientists take stem cells from the corpse, there is nothing wrong with that.

Today there is a university in Baghdad with faculties in the sciences and letters, and religious schools similar to the old Azhar exist in Najaf and Karbala for Shi`ites and in Baghdad for the Sunnis.

The old idea in science was that there was a permanent, final essence which we are looking for, although perhaps we have not got it yet.

It was, moreover, a Christian humanist vision which enabled him to reconcile his old science with his new faith and to reappropriate his Uncle Will's humanism in a religious framework.

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.

You also seem to not realize that much of science fiction is just a reimagining of the old myths set in some future time.

The new total viewpoint of Buber's science of Biblical study has without question created a new situation in Old Testament scholarship.

Anyone that tells you that «science» says the Earth is 6 billion years old has forgotten to tell you than there are many credible scientists who disagree and there are many discrepancies in the dating methods.

Nomimus At least in science, when a new idea comes up, it is possible to abandon older ideas.

Atheists can prove that science exists, that the earth is more than 6000 years old, that their is NO WAY to build the size ark that Noah built and do what is claimed in the bible, again when making extraordinary claims, we need evidence and we know that snakes do not talk, that the laws of physics can not be suspended and that nearly EVERY claim in the bible is false.

In his book Science, Truth and Democracy, scientific philosopher Philip Kitcher argues that the old way of doing science with its hierarchies, taxonomies and categories, such as could be applied to species, musScience, Truth and Democracy, scientific philosopher Philip Kitcher argues that the old way of doing science with its hierarchies, taxonomies and categories, such as could be applied to species, musscience with its hierarchies, taxonomies and categories, such as could be applied to species, must be...

A special feature keeping us up to date with issues of science and religion TEMPLETON WINNER, MIND AND MATHEMATICS In mid-March it was announced that this year's winner of the Templeton Prize — an extremely valuable prize awarded annually in recognition of, and promotion of, work for «research or discoveries about spiritual realities» — is Fr Michael Heller, a 72 - yr - old Polish priest and physics professoIn mid-March it was announced that this year's winner of the Templeton Prize — an extremely valuable prize awarded annually in recognition of, and promotion of, work for «research or discoveries about spiritual realities» — is Fr Michael Heller, a 72 - yr - old Polish priest and physics professoin recognition of, and promotion of, work for «research or discoveries about spiritual realities» — is Fr Michael Heller, a 72 - yr - old Polish priest and physics professor.

As Cosmos continues to turn heads and give this country a (much needed) renewed interest in science, the old debate about science and religion has come back to the forefront...

There may be apparent anachronisms in certain aspects of the Book of Mormon, but the same could also be said of any book of scripture and many old science books as well.

In that spirit the editors distanced them on February 2, 1938, from facile old modernisms that only wanted to be tied to science and progress.

Be a good little christard and keep off of the Atheist invented machine or maybe register for a grade 5 science class - an education outside of the out dated 2000 year old debunked crap you believe in, would do you good... maybe watch some COSMOS - short and easy to comprehend if you have an open - mind.

This destroys not just the foundations of science and everydayliving but also the very heart of the Faith as revealed in both the Old Testament and the New.

We give to science privilege in settling age - old questions of right and....

Best of all, this book closed with several chapters on pertinent theological questions for today, such as how to reconcile the Bible and science, how to understand the violence of God in the Old Testament, and how to make sense of what the Bible teaches about women, homosexuality, and the fate of those who have never heard the gospel.

He has more faith in science than the authority of the Old Testament.

When it was first said that the sun stood still and the world turned round, the common sense of mankind declared the doctrine false; but the old saying of Vox populi, vox Dei [«the voice of the people = the voice of God»], as every philosopher knows, can not be trusted in science.