Sentences with phrase «more of a science project»

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As he prodded the prime minister, Nye, best known as the host of the 1990s PBS show «Bill Nye the Science Guy,» and more recently for the Netflix series «Bill Nye Saves the World,» cited a study by a group called The Solutions Project that concluded Canada could live entirely without fossil fuels if it fully embraced renewable energy sources.

Your kid asks you for more money to spend on Candy, say... you know he / she eats too much candy already so you say no... Then the kid who was supposed to cover her school science project out of pocket money that she saved says she will spend the pocket money on candy and you pay for the science project.

This is the de-divining of man and it is the project of those who hold the idea that there is no more to reality than what the most developed science describes.

If by the latter we mean the description of familiar objects of perception or of the objects which science defines by its methods of observation and measurement, then the reference of poetic language projects «ahead» of itself a world in which the reader is invited to dwell, thus finding a more authentic situation in being.

For even more Halloween fun, my kids and I have been checking out the Kids in the Kitchen section on their website, which has hundreds of kid - friendly craft ideas, printables, edible art projects, activity sheets and sweet science projects!

We worry far more about their fifth - grade science fair project than their sense of integrity.

In addition to activating teens, the aquarium is also opening the citizen science project to its volunteer base of more than 800.

It's got all kinds of camping art projects, more fun science, recipes and some awesome pretend play!

The comparative framework included the seminal work of German and Japanese urban climatologists, as well as the more recent climate policy initiatives of New York City and the City of Manchester.The project was a collaboration between MARC and the Centre for History of Science Technology and Medicine.

But the board took a more skeptical view of the Christian Science Reading Room project, which its developers, Peter and Rebecca McCauley, already estimate will generate a nearly 11 percent return on their investment without any tax breaks, and a nearly 28 percent return if the IDA approves the $ 35,000 in incentives they are seeking.

Of special interest is Michael Nielsen's TEDx lecture linked there, which gives a great success story, the Polymath Project, but discusses why crowdsourcing has been slow to take hold in science more broadly.)

Since 1985, Project 2061 has led the way in science education reform by first defining adult science literacy in its influential publication Science for All Americans and then specifying what K - 12 students need to know in Benchmarks for Science Literacy, which helps educators implement science literacy goals in the classroom; the AAAS Science Assessment website with more than 700 middle school test items; and WeatherSchool @ AAAS, an online resource where students can use real - world data to learn about the fundamental principles of weather and cscience education reform by first defining adult science literacy in its influential publication Science for All Americans and then specifying what K - 12 students need to know in Benchmarks for Science Literacy, which helps educators implement science literacy goals in the classroom; the AAAS Science Assessment website with more than 700 middle school test items; and WeatherSchool @ AAAS, an online resource where students can use real - world data to learn about the fundamental principles of weather and cscience literacy in its influential publication Science for All Americans and then specifying what K - 12 students need to know in Benchmarks for Science Literacy, which helps educators implement science literacy goals in the classroom; the AAAS Science Assessment website with more than 700 middle school test items; and WeatherSchool @ AAAS, an online resource where students can use real - world data to learn about the fundamental principles of weather and cScience for All Americans and then specifying what K - 12 students need to know in Benchmarks for Science Literacy, which helps educators implement science literacy goals in the classroom; the AAAS Science Assessment website with more than 700 middle school test items; and WeatherSchool @ AAAS, an online resource where students can use real - world data to learn about the fundamental principles of weather and cScience Literacy, which helps educators implement science literacy goals in the classroom; the AAAS Science Assessment website with more than 700 middle school test items; and WeatherSchool @ AAAS, an online resource where students can use real - world data to learn about the fundamental principles of weather and cscience literacy goals in the classroom; the AAAS Science Assessment website with more than 700 middle school test items; and WeatherSchool @ AAAS, an online resource where students can use real - world data to learn about the fundamental principles of weather and cScience Assessment website with more than 700 middle school test items; and WeatherSchool @ AAAS, an online resource where students can use real - world data to learn about the fundamental principles of weather and climate.

The Coalition's working groups have produced a number of resources including an annotated bibliography of science and human rights, guidelines for scientists working on human rights projects, examples of collaborations between scientists and human rights organizations, a primer on scientific freedom and human rights, and more.

These resources include an annotated bibliography of science and human rights, guidelines for scientists working on human rights projects, examples of collaborations between scientists and human rights organizations, a primer on scientific freedom and human rights, and more.

For more information about the genesis and goals of the Perceptions Project, read this detailed description from the winter 2013 issue of the American Association for the Advancement of Science's Professional Ethics Report.

In consultation with the AAAS Center for Public Engagement, the AAAS DoSER «Engaging Scientists» project supports scientists in becoming more effective ambassadors for their research interests, their disciplines, and for science as a whole with a broad and diverse spectrum of publics, and particularly with religious communities.

There are many kinds of citizen science, among them: making field observations as in the sunflower project, analyzing images and video such as the terrific Zooniverse.org projects, data crunching with spare computing power, and more.

Fed up with the large projects that strangled their research in top - down bureaucracy, science leaders began calling for a European body more like the U.S. National Science Foundation or the National Institutes of science leaders began calling for a European body more like the U.S. National Science Foundation or the National Institutes of Science Foundation or the National Institutes of Health.

«These observations show that ALMA is capable of delivering transformational science, even with less than half of the full array in use,» says Ewine van Dishoeck of the Leiden Observatory, who has been a major contributor to the ALMA project for more than 20 years.

Following our successful weekday series of science activities for parents and kids ages six to 12, which ran through May, we will post more fun projects, starting in October.

Jo Ellen Roseman, director of the long - term science literacy project, said improved ways of teaching how atoms and molecules behave in chemical reactions will prepare students for more advanced classes in high school and college.

According to a 2012 report from the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, the U.S. needs to produce approximately 1 million more STEM professionals during the next decade than is currently projected, yet «fewer than 40 percent of students who enter college intending to major in a STEM field complete a STEM degree.»

On January 11, President Bush's science advisor John H. Marburger III, who oversees the federal scientific enterprise as director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), issued a memo instructing the heads of all government research organizations to establish «appropriate policies to acknowledge more than one principal investigator (PI) when there is more than one collaborating investigator working on a Federally - funded research project,» according to a White House news rscience advisor John H. Marburger III, who oversees the federal scientific enterprise as director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), issued a memo instructing the heads of all government research organizations to establish «appropriate policies to acknowledge more than one principal investigator (PI) when there is more than one collaborating investigator working on a Federally - funded research project,» according to a White House news rScience and Technology Policy (OSTP), issued a memo instructing the heads of all government research organizations to establish «appropriate policies to acknowledge more than one principal investigator (PI) when there is more than one collaborating investigator working on a Federally - funded research project,» according to a White House news release.

Since the beginning of the Eleventh Five - Year Plan, the school has adhered to major strategic demands of national defense, constantly condensing the direction of the frontier research, focusing on improving the capability of independent innovation, undertaking major national science and technology research and a large number of research projects such as the National Defense Program 973 (which is called the National Basic Research Program of March 1997), Program 863 (which is known as the High - tech Research Development Program carried out by Deng Xiaoping in March 1986), and national defense pre-research and models, winning more than 260 provincial and ministerial awards.

«We're opening the doors to some very different kinds of science, a much bigger section of the sky, a more diverse set of target stars,» says Kepler deputy project manager Charlie Sobeck.

«Although the bill's sponsors say that sets the stage for doubling DOE's science budget, including that of the agency's Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA - E), at that rate the doubling would take more than 17 years.

In addition to the analysis published in Nature Climate Change, the scientists working under the Global Carbon Project umbrella published a more detailed technical analysis of the world's CO2 emissions yesterday in the journal Earth System Science Data Discussions.

For example, the calls from part of the scientific community for the National Science Foundation and National Institutes of Health to offer more «fellowships rather than project - based research assistant and post-doc funding are attempts to maintain a more master - apprentice type system.»

In versions of manuscripts for another project submitted to Cognition, Science, and Nature, Hauser claimed that «16 out of 16 subjects» responded more to poor grammar than correct grammar, when in truth 13 monkeys had responded to a greater degree.

Type 2 projects, involve educational research that closely examines factors that prompt undergraduates to drop out of the sciences, as well as factors that help them stay on to attain associate and bachelor's degrees in these disciplines, or otherwise to acquire more access to science and related careers.

Because STEP grants are considered institutional grants, projects are more likely to be funded if the plan intends to boost the number of all science, technology, engineering, and mathematics graduates — thus, making a large impact — as opposed to targeting one discipline or underrepresented group.

The Danish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Higher Education sponsors an Industrial Ph.D. program that, in its current form, has funded more than a thousand projects since 2002, most in health, natural sciences, and technology.

He's devoted more than four decades to the 58 - year wildlife ecology project, a dedication and passion indicative, to me, of what science is all about.

More than a dozen Nobel laureates denounced this proposition, mostly in the media but some to my face, as did the White House science advisor, the British science minister, the head of the Human Genome Project, and the editors in chief of the journals Science and science advisor, the British science minister, the head of the Human Genome Project, and the editors in chief of the journals Science and science minister, the head of the Human Genome Project, and the editors in chief of the journals Science and Science and Nature.

The tripmark exhibit is still being finalized, but already this art - science project has been on display at two conferences as part of an effort to make the public more aware of soil microbial life.

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has committed more than $ 1.3 million in funding from 2006 through 2011 for a project led by Alexey Onufriev, an associate professor in Virginia Tech's departments of Computer Science and Physics, to represent water computationally, because water is key to modeling biological molecules.

«From the vantage point of theoretical computer science, it's much more apparent how rare it is for a problem to be efficiently solvable,» says Ankur Moitra, the Rockwell International Career Development Assistant Professor of Mathematics at MIT and one of the leaders of the MIT - USC - UCSD project.

From the National Space Science Centre featuring a Soyuz rocket to the model ecosystems inside the Eden Project's multiple linked geodesic domes — tall enough to enclose the Tower of London — the science centers offer much more than inner - city renewal, says @Bristol chief executive John Science Centre featuring a Soyuz rocket to the model ecosystems inside the Eden Project's multiple linked geodesic domes — tall enough to enclose the Tower of London — the science centers offer much more than inner - city renewal, says @Bristol chief executive John science centers offer much more than inner - city renewal, says @Bristol chief executive John Durant.

He further has said that science and faith pose no conflict for most religious people, including more than 12,000 Christian leaders who have signed the Clergy Letter Project in support of teaching evolution.

Optometrist and lead researcher on the project, Associate Professor Scott Read who is the director of research at QUT's School of Optometry and Vision Science, said children need to spend more than an hour and preferably at least two hours a day outside to help prevent myopia from developing and progressing.

«ASKAP is a really important scientific project in its own right but it will be more important when it is part of the SKA, which will be one of the most important scientific projects of the 21st century,» says Chris Evans, Australia's minister for science.

Though the most infamous of these efforts, called Project Camelot, focused on preventing insurgency in Latin America, other projects looked more broadly at using social sciences to help guide military actions, and like current efforts, they included quantitative and predictive uses of social science models.

«This groundbreaking and the massive underground excavation that will soon follow is a clear signal to the global science community that the U.S. is moving forward with its ambitious plan to host a global megascience project centered on elucidating the properties of neutrinos as a centerpiece of its high - energy physics program for the next two decades or more,» says David MacFarlane from the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory.

«The mechanical shuffling that occurs as dislocations pop up and over those atomic bumps creates a domino effect of more dislocations,» said study co-author Daryl Chrzan, a professor of materials science and engineering who led the theoretical effort in the project.

The ERC, perhaps the most popular science program to come out of the European Union, funds more than 1000 individual researchers doing cutting - edge projects.

CitizenScience.gov includes a catalog of federally supported citizen science projects, while Challenge.gov is a hub for competitions run by more than 80 federal agencies to gather innovative solutions from the public to solve technical, scientific, and creative problems.

This year, more than 70 per cent of the MRC's «alpha - rated» research proposals, which include projects at the cutting edge of science, had to be turned down for lack of funds.

A survey by Roach and Sauermann of more than 400 graduate students at three Research I universities shows that some of the aspiring researchers do strongly possess what Sauermann and other researchers call «a taste for science,» which they define as a desire to do basic research, to determine the direction of one's projects, to publish in peer - reviewed journals, and to participate actively in the scientific community.

In To Be A Scientist, Donald Braben describes the enterprise of science, taking as his main example the Venture Research Project, the blue - sky research funded by BP in the more expansive days of the 1980s.

U.K. scientists had thought that their days of participation in large - scale projects were numbered when the current government, in its first spending review in 2010, slashed funds for capital spending in science projects by more than 50 %.