Sentences with phrase «in science culture»

I was a sophomore at Harvard that year: 19 years old and steeped enough in science culture to laugh off his comments at first.

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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.

Everyone's favorite astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson's StarTalk Radio is a comedic podcast where deGrasse Tyson discusses science, pop culture and more with some of today's hottest names in tech, such as Elon Musk and Alexis Ohanian.

In his book The World in 2050: Four Forces Shaping Civilization's Northern Future, Laurence Smith, a professor of geography and earth and space sciences at UCLA, argues that we're about to see a productivity and culture boom in the north, driven by climate change, shifting demographics, globalization and the hunt for natural resourceIn his book The World in 2050: Four Forces Shaping Civilization's Northern Future, Laurence Smith, a professor of geography and earth and space sciences at UCLA, argues that we're about to see a productivity and culture boom in the north, driven by climate change, shifting demographics, globalization and the hunt for natural resourcein 2050: Four Forces Shaping Civilization's Northern Future, Laurence Smith, a professor of geography and earth and space sciences at UCLA, argues that we're about to see a productivity and culture boom in the north, driven by climate change, shifting demographics, globalization and the hunt for natural resourcein the north, driven by climate change, shifting demographics, globalization and the hunt for natural resources.

«Based on evidence gathered from focus groups and interviews conducted in U.S. coal communities, we argue that coal communities that have experienced mine closures have already begun an economic and social transition, one that is based on reshaping their culture and sense of identity,» wrote professors of Indiana University in a paper published in the March issue of Energy Research and Social Science.

Some would - be defenders of Silicon Valley culture have responded that since only 20 % of computer and information science degrees were awarded to women (as of 2008, down from 37 % in 1985) we are exactly where we ought to be.

«The current political situation in Austria is a culture of mistrust against traditional parties,» says Peter Filzmaier, a political science professor at Danube University in Krems, Austria.

Outside contributors» opinions and analysis of the most important issues in politics, science, and culture.

But in spite of the enthusiasm for science that accompanied each wave of globalization, as a historical rule it was primarily commerce and finance that drove globalization, not science or technology, and certainly not politics or culture.

Other important decisions included: understanding that investing in marketing was critical to generating sales; focusing on sales training, including the science and art of selling, was critical for building an expert and successful sales team; and most importantly creating a can - do business culture where coming to work was fun.

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GFI's science and technology department is involved in the development and promotion of the science of plant - based cultured meat, dairy, and egg technologies.33 They are currently focused on core foundational work — making connections with organizations and writing white papers and «mind maps» — and as such they do not yet have a significant track record.34 They have produced Technological Readiness Assessments — documents detailing the current state of technology, and evaluating where more research is needed.35 All the research GFI does is published, so that the industry as a whole can benefit.36 One of their biggest successes over the last year are the presentations that Senior Scientist Liz Specht gave to various venture capitalist firms.

As Canada's leading innovation centre, MaRS brings together leaders across a range of disciplines — in science, business and beyond — to help boost the success of emerging ventures and to stimulate a broader culture of innovation.

Lauren earned her MSc in Gender, Media and Culture from The London School of Economics and Political Science

For instance, while Star Wars has very evident religious Buddhist and Taoist overtones, Star Trek shows religion from a cold perspective (e.g., science is supreme and only cultures and worlds without an in - depth knowledge of science need religion).

'» Asked to paint a picture of the company in 20 years, the executives mentioned such things as «on the cover of Business Week as a model success story... the Fortune most admired top - ten list... the best science and business graduates want to work here... people on airplanes rave about one of our products to seatmates... 20 consecutive years of profitable growth... an entrepreneurial culture that has spawned half a dozen new divisions from within... management gurus use us as an example of excellent management and progressive thinking,» and so on.

Gelernter, a student at Yale in the 1960s, and a longtime professor of computer science there, focuses on the change, which he thinks is decisive for elite culture today.

That's laughable too, but he is correct in claiming that science has no real answers as to why we're here or why every culture in history has had a belief in a mysterious, unseen, omnipotent being.

Bottum opines that we should prepare ourselves for the next chapter in the culture wars, in which the left here will get into step with its European compatriots, espousing a militant skepticism toward science while maintaining their polemic against the religious right, but this time for its uncritical embrace of scientific progress.

Unfortunately, the increasingly popular approach to finding truth in our modern -» thinking» culture is one based solely on natural science.

Science, Jews, and Secular Culture By David A. Hollinger Princeton University Press, 178 pages, $ 24.95 This short and eclectic collection of essays and lectures is weakly tied together by the argument» central in some chapters, marginal in others» that science was a powerful tool in the secularization of American cScience, Jews, and Secular Culture By David A. Hollinger Princeton University Press, 178 pages, $ 24.95 This short and eclectic collection of essays and lectures is weakly tied together by the argument» central in some chapters, marginal in others» that science was a powerful tool in the secularization of American cCulture By David A. Hollinger Princeton University Press, 178 pages, $ 24.95 This short and eclectic collection of essays and lectures is weakly tied together by the argument» central in some chapters, marginal in others» that science was a powerful tool in the secularization of American cscience was a powerful tool in the secularization of American cultureculture.

The International Information fundamentally represents the dominance and penetration of the technocratic culture into the life of the peoples in the third World, either in the form of science and technology transfer, or in the form of economic development and coqercial advertisement, or in terms of the inculcation of military values such as national security doctrine and peace propagenda.

The point is that our culture has reached a level of understanding where many of the well educated scientific and cultural leaders of our day have abandoned supersti - tion in favor of science and reason.

Protestant liberals were bent on proving that genuine Christian faith could live in mutual harmony with the modern developments in science, technology, immigration, communication and culture that were already under way.

In 1996 he reflected upon the purpose of the above Secretariat in Culture and Faith, «Science affects our twentieth century culture in many wayIn 1996 he reflected upon the purpose of the above Secretariat in Culture and Faith, «Science affects our twentieth century culture in many wayin Culture and Faith, «Science affects our twentieth century culture in manCulture and Faith, «Science affects our twentieth century culture in manculture in many wayin many ways.

China needs to find or develop a worldview that allows it to recover much of its traditional culture and values in a way that also opens it to the knowledge that has been gained by Western science.

Every people has its culture, whether primitive or advanced, and this culture is discerned in the folkways and moral standards, forms of family life, economic enterprises, laws and modes of dealing with lawbreakers, forms of recreation, religion, art, education, science, and philosophy that constitute the social aspects of human existence as contrasted with the bare biological fact of living.

The culture concept is one of the great illuminating ideas of modern science, comparable in importance to the concept of evolution in biology, the concept of electromagnetic and gravitational fields in physics, and the concept of the atom in chemistry.

The contemporary «learning society,» overwhelmed with information, knowledge and entertainment, requires discerning and constructive responses of an even greater order than those of the early church in the sophisticated rhetorical culture of the Roman Empire, or the early modern Western church faced with printing and transformations in scholarship, geographical horizons, sciences, nations and industries.

Reason consolidates itself in terms of techniques, e.g., hunting, fishing, farming, handed down by the tribe to the next generation, evolving still more in terms of greater and more refined techniques and in terms of greater area of human activity; it unifies itself through the compilation of human experience not only in technique and art but in organized bodies of knowledge, the sciences, and all these achievements of reason resulting in a culture which in turn unify groups of people into cultural groups, civilizations, etc..

In oral cultures you could never have a well - developed science because science requires the recording and sharing of detailed information that the human brain can't provide through purely oral means.

Following on the British government's decision in favour of promoting English rather than Oriental or Vernacular education in India, and to seek the help of private agencies in the task, the Missions started Christian colleges for imparting education in Western culture and modern science with the teaching of English literature at the centre of secular courses and spiritually interpreted by the teaching of Christian Scripture.

The Commission realized that western culture and science could not destroy the traditional idols but has also introduced into India new gods like Rationalism, Scientism, Individualism and Materialism which had no sense of the sacredness of human persons and was converting technology into a force for exploitation of the industrial workers and dehumanization of peoples» lives in the cities of India.

A word needs to be said about art in the second sense, which like the products of applied science to which it is closely related, is a dominant note in our culture.

Notes Walton, «Through the entire Bible, there is not a single instance in which God revealed to Israel a science beyond their own culture.»

John D. Inazu is associate professor of law and political science at Washington University in St. Louis and a visiting fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture at the University of Virginia.

David Hollinger, professor of American intellectual history at Berkeley, suggests in Science, Jews, and Secular Culture that secularized Jews wanted to promote the reputation of a Yankee aristocrat who was so emphatically non-Christian.

In this context we should like to warn against the snobbery of certain circles who imagine that natural science, technology and social planning have nothing to do with culture, which in their view can only be created by individualistic eliteIn this context we should like to warn against the snobbery of certain circles who imagine that natural science, technology and social planning have nothing to do with culture, which in their view can only be created by individualistic elitein their view can only be created by individualistic elites.

One could turn to many artists for a precedent for a newly evangelised culture comprising imaginative activities that are open to the transcendent, a culture that integrates human creativity in art, literature and science with the call to holiness, to a life that acknowledges truth, goodness and beauty as having their source in the divine.

What natural science stimulated, industry furthered in the very mode of activity it promoted and the ethos it tended to generate within communities and within culture as a whole.

So rather than wearing out my voice in calling for an end to evangelicalism's culture wars, I think it's time to focus on finding and creating church among its many refugees — women called to ministry, our LGBTQ brother and sisters, science - lovers, doubters, dreamers, misfits, abuse survivors, those who refuse to choose between their intellectual integrity and their faith or their compassion and their religion, those who have, for whatever reason, been «farewelled.»

In the Abbasid period Muslim culture became society - oriented, with emphasis on such subjects as the sciences and engineering and architecture; but no contradiction was felt between these fields and religion, for all scholars combined religious knowledge with mastery of other fields of learning.

This applies particularly to many of our time who have been schooled in the thought of Western culture, say from the period of the enlightenment through nineteenth - century philosophy and science.

By and large, we use the word «culture» in a more restricted sense to refer to art, religion, philosophy, and science.

He noted the peril of specialization in modern culture, which tends to isolate religious thinkers from those in philosophy, art, politics and science.

Science tried to be born in every great culture previously but always failed.

In a misguided effort to close the gap between the «the two cultures,» humanists join the sciences in denying privileged status to inherited belieIn a misguided effort to close the gap between the «the two cultures,» humanists join the sciences in denying privileged status to inherited beliein denying privileged status to inherited belief.

Our Western culture, in fact, is primarily «left hemispheric» in its application of rational thinking to almost every facet of human existence: science, economics, politics, education, religion, law (the French word for law, droit, comes from «right hand,» the hand that rules and is controlled by the left hemisphere).

He has been called by a modern English historian of Chinese culture «one of the most remarkable and brilliant men in history» (Joseph Needham, in Science and Civilization in China, 2 vols.

In an increasingly secularized culture it always astonishes many people that Christian faith and Christian churches should believe in the arts, the humanities, and the scienceIn an increasingly secularized culture it always astonishes many people that Christian faith and Christian churches should believe in the arts, the humanities, and the sciencein the arts, the humanities, and the sciences.