Sentences with phrase «latest science points»

And the latest science points a finger at climate change for this.

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In late 2001, Filippelli, by then a West Point grad with experience in computer science, had been gearing up for the United States» post-9 / 11 invasion of Afghanistan.

Science writers Carl Sagan and Fritjof Capra have pointed out similarities between the latest scientific understanding of the age of the universe, and the Hindu concept of a «day and night of Brahma», which is much closer to the current known age of the universe than other creation myths.

My point, in case it wasn't clear to you, is that in times past people have attributed phenomena in the physical world to supernatural causes, only to have science later debunk those explanations.

As I've pointed out, there have been instances in the past where people explained phenomena with spiritual answers, only to have those explanation later debunked by science.

As our review of Alister McGrath's latest book in this issue implies, he, along with many other contemporary science and religion writers, fails to make this discernment and thus, whilst making numerous helpful points, despairs of inferring properties of God from looking at nature.

Griffin brings together passages in Science and the Modern World which show that, from the later point of view, Whitehead should have drawn the conclusion of panexperientialism.

Whitehead's «method of extensive abstraction» is used not only in his early writings in the philosophy of natural science but also in his later, more metaphysical, writings to abstract from the complexity of the relations which comprise the datum of sense - perception and to isolate by a conceptual analysis those relations which express a uniform metric structure, that is, to «exhibit» a basis of uniformity in nature.21 It is the sense in which this uniformity is «required» that is the crucial point for further investigation.

The science is clear that our brains grow faster between the ages of 0 and 3 than at any later point in our lives.

A study, published today in Science Advances, found that when scientists used noninvasive brain stimulation to disrupt a brain region called the temporoparietal junction (TPJ), people appeared less able to see things from the point of view of their future selves or of another person, and consequently were less likely to share money with others and more inclined to opt for immediate cash instead of waiting for a larger bounty at a later date.

Professor Don Levitan, chair of the Department of Biological Science, writes in the latest issue of Marine Ecology Progress Series that bleaching — a process where high water temperatures or UV light stresses the coral to the point where it loses its symbiotic algal partner that provides the coral with color — is also affecting the long - term fertility of the coral.

With these pointed questions, Irving Lerch, chair of the American Association for the Advancement of Science's (AAAS's) Committee on Scientific Freedom and Responsibility, opened a meeting of European and American scientists who gathered in Washington, D.C., late last September to discuss whether or not scientific and engineering professionals should swear to an oath.

In these test settings, various science curricula were revamped to get them to jibe with the latest cognitive science research on effective learning, which points to more interactive approaches that include immediately and repeatedly putting new information to use.

Climate science still faces the dilemma articulated by the late Steve Schneider and misrepresented by his adversaries — how do we best ensure that the public arrives at an accurate understanding of climate change, when the «sound bite» limits on our speaking time to the media force us to choose between making a few points with all the appropriate caveats, vs presenting details of all the points we believe important but without acknowledging uncertainties?

TCG's investment strategy runs counter to the prevailing trend in life sciences venture capital toward assembling diversified portfolios of later stage, single product - orientated companies across multiple industry sectors, with proximity to value inflection points and the early identification of a Pharma «buyer» as key investment considerations.

Looking through the Science Guidance Booklet, Hazel also pointed out how the Patchwork Thinking strategy, for example, could be adapted to ensure deeper understanding when learners revisit areas of Science later in the primary years.

(Nine months later, in a special section of the Spring issue of The Wildlife Professional, Miller and David Jessup (another of the 14 co-authors on the 2008 paper, and a colleague of Miller's at the California Department of Fish and Game) were at it again, arguing simply, «the science points to cats.»

On the science pointing to a greenhouse influence, read Michael Levi's latest post, «How Likely Was Hurricane Sandy?»

I have a story in Science Times looking at the latest round of climate - treaty talks, one month ago in Bali, from the vantage point of Kevin Conrad, the young man who represented Papua New Guinea and shook things up with a strong rebuke of the United States in the final tumultuous session.

As has been the case for years, climate science points to measurably rising impacts from human - driven global warming later this century.

[Response: Unfortunately, you seem to have conveniently forgotten that Keigwin (and Pickart) published a paper in Science just a few years later in 1999 pointing that the appparent cooling (actually, the oxygen isotopic signal in question isn't entirely temperature, it is salinity as well, so the quantative 1 deg cooling estimate you cite is not actually reliable) in the Sargasso Sea is diametrically opposed by a substantial warming at the same time in the Laurentian Fan region of the North Atlantic off the coast of Newfoundland.

It raises other questions above; what should we really be doing in the sciences (broadly, not just climate and physics) and in society, at this late point?

In the late 1990s, while many other oil and gas companies were still questioning science pointing to a dangerous human influence on climate, BP pledged to cut its direct emissions of such gases 10 percent below 1990 levels by 2010.

The National Academies, the country's leading scientific advisory group, has published the latest in a decades - long string of reports laying out the robust science pointing to an increasingly human - influenced climate.

Its final report on climate science and solutions buried this point, as I pointed out here: «Panel's Latest Warming Warning Misses Global Slumber Party on Energy Research.»

«We are calling on policy - makers to respond to the prospect of triggering future climate tipping points by applying the brakes now and putting a high price on carbon emissions before it is too late,» says one of the authors, Tim Lenton, professor of climate change and earth system science at the University of Exeter.

Science is a weapon — a point I will return to later.

Instead, in his latest attack on Monckton's APS paper, he refers back to his earlier «cuckoo science» cited here, as if he had succeeded in «trashing» Monckton at that point.

Another was in the late 6th Century BC when there was not only the miracle of Ionia and Greece: philosophy, science, poetry, all reaching a point that wasn't reached again for 2000 years, but also in India a spiritual enlightenment that has perhaps never been equalled.

Earth has already warmed 1 °C from carbon pollution, and the latest science says the globe is already approaching many tipping points.

Not an exact science, else we would have profitable fortune tellers in abundance, but does the 2000 - 2010 temperature «flat spot» occur as a slowing point on the long term rise from the LIA (perhaps to peak one or more 66 year periods later in 2050 - 2060, 2120 - 2130)?

------- Reply: Are you saying all those points about «science» from the latest IPCC?

1:54 point:... later that summer, she started doing the work, unknown to me, that became her 2004, her December 2004 paper in Science... then she came under kind of a vicious attack from an organized lobby and I called her up one day and said, «How could you not know that would happen?»

FYI, Gore did put some early political muscle behind DARPA's damage resistant point - to - point military communication concept back in the late 80's, it just happened to become a great way to share cat videos or spread confusion about sound environmental science.

My understanding is that this is exactly the place for «laymen'to interact with scientists in order to get as clear an understanding as possible of what the latest, best science telling us about the state of the climate at this point, no matter how grim it gets.

The key point here is that, even as we struggle to come to terms with the latest climate science, we need to remember (see particularly James Davis» essay) that catastrophism is the «native terrain» of the right.

The consequences of such stagnation are serious: according to a recent study in Psychological Science, those who were more bored with their marriages at one point in time reported less marital satisfaction 9 years later.2 Clearly, boredom isn't something to ignore.

If you hear your co-parent or your children complaining about your showing up late, taking the kids to the wrong sports field, forgetting to buy the poster board for the science project, consider this: Your co-parent and children might have a point.