Not exact matches
Not only has
science made great strides in improving the lives
of those with physical challenges, but our fellow
citizens are also taught to be more kind and tolerant than
most people in other countries and other centuries.
Osborne and Alford do what they love
most, diving and publishing on novel methods
of science education, including
citizen science, where regular people gather data to support peer - reviewed
science.
Citizens» control over spending is not direct,
of course, but in
most Western countries public attitudes influence how well or how poorly appropriators fund
science.
Capitalizing on the unique expertise
of its members, the IAU through its Public Naming
of Planets and Planetary Satellites Working Group has now developed a project in partnership with Zooniverse — home to the internet's largest,
most popular and
most successful
citizen science projects [1].
The world
of Wakanda, a fictional African nation that is the world's
most technologically advanced but also quite possibly the world's
most secretive, is a bright, gleaming utopia for its
citizens, who live in a society where easy access to the metal vibranium means the kind
of post-scarcity society that
science fiction writers have been dreaming about for decades.
CCAMLR's Ross Sea MPA victory shows that, given a base
of strong
science and the combined voices
of concerned
citizens, the commission can do what is right by protecting the Southern Ocean and some
of the
most pristine environments left on Earth.
Through vivid chapters that describe the history and theory
of citizen science, detailed examples of brilliant citizen science projects, and a look at the movement's future, Citizen Science is the ideal guide for anyone interested in one of the most important trends in scientific pr
science, detailed examples
of brilliant
citizen science projects, and a look at the movement's future, Citizen Science is the ideal guide for anyone interested in one of the most important trends in scientific pr
science projects, and a look at the movement's future,
Citizen Science is the ideal guide for anyone interested in one of the most important trends in scientific pr
Science is the ideal guide for anyone interested in one
of the
most important trends in scientific practice.
Unnoticed by
most citizens, last week the United States Senate introduced the «Secret
Science Reform Act
of 2015.»
Please don't hijack the
science, and tell people like me, who understand
most of the
science (other than the intricacies
of climate models) better than 99 %
of US
citizens, and have followed the
science better than 99.8 %
of US
citizens, that we don't know what we are talking about.
With the exception
of the 1991 ICE memos — which I will get to shortly — the next
most favored leaked memo phrase is the one out
of the 1998 API documents, «Victory will be achieved when... Average
citizens «understand» (recognize) uncertainties in climate
science...» That isn't a sinister industry directive, it is a basic truism.
The key
science question for
citizens and their representatives is not whether
most recent warming is man - made but whether climate change, as Al Gore HAS put it, is a «planetary emergency... that threatens the survival
of civilization and the habitability
of the Earth.»
Most US citizens are aware that there has been an ongoing debate about the science of climate change, yet most American are completely unaware of the strength of the «consensus» position on climate cha
Most US
citizens are aware that there has been an ongoing debate about the
science of climate change, yet
most American are completely unaware of the strength of the «consensus» position on climate cha
most American are completely unaware
of the strength
of the «consensus» position on climate change.
Because a high percentage
of the arguments made by
most proponents
of climate change policy have been focused on adverse climate impacts that
citizens will experience where they live, while ignoring the harms to hundreds
of millions
of vulnerable poor people around the world that are being affected by GHG emissions from all - high emitting nations, along with claims that mainstream climate
science is credible and has been undermined by morally reprehensible tactics, there is a need to make more people aware
of:
I've seen the sort
of thing going on in climate
science also occurring in elementary - particle physics, but
most citizens do not care (or know) about that, because it has no significant political or economic implications.
JG: What are the
most important ways that average
citizens can take a participatory role in the evolution
of science and technology in society?
I think that you would be really interested in some
of the
most cutting - edge research that I have come across explaining crowds, open innovation, and
citizen science.