Not exact matches
One of the striking ironies of our age is that while physics, formerly the «hardest»
science, is becoming
increasingly less materialistic, biology (and to some extent physiology and brain
science) are now the strongholds of materialism in
science.
For Teitelbaum, the issue has
increasingly become one in which
science and engineering careers are
less attractive as the «opportunity costs» of acquiring the necessary training continue to go up.
Except for very special
science libraries containing collections of rare and ancient materials,
science libraries now are underutilized and
increasingly seem unnecessary; since maintaining traditional libraries necessitates spending quite a lot of money every year, it is easy to predict that they will be converted into much
less costly fully digitized libraries.
Much like calorie counting, it's not necessarily an exact
science, but something that becomes
increasingly important if we go to extremes of macronutrient composition (i.e.
less than 10 % of calories from fat or carbohydrate).
She's co-authored a recent paper — «The early bear gets the goose: climate change, polar bears and
lesser snow geese in western Hudson Bay» — showing that bears in that region are foraging
increasingly on shore, eating grasses and particularly relishing (apparently) snow geese and their eggs [UPDATE: Ms. Gormezano described grass (and kelp) foraging in my
Science Times story but that's not in the paper; her co-author properly rejected the use of the word «relished»].
My sense is
increasingly that what's under attack is
less and
less the merits of the climate consensus and more and more the credibility and integrity of scientists and
science itself.
I'm not even a regular scientist, much
less a (sound of choir, ray of sunlight from parted clouds) «CLIMATE Scientist», so don't really know what goes on behind the curtain, but I will say that it is
increasingly apparent to me that much of «
science» (save that bastion of purity, mathematics), has been corrupted by greed, a political agenda (whose operatives are dupes of the former, really, viz..
As surely as a rising tide lifts all thrones, rising levels of CO2 raise all temperatures, leaving him
increasingly hot under the coronet, and sounding ever
less like a
Science Lord (Ashby and Zuckerman come to mind) and ever more like a wannabe Jack Cade, with the added disadvantage of sounding very like a lawyer.