Sentences with phrase «much public science»

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Yet, while both are at the height of hype in the tech world, much of the general public still has trouble believing either has progressed beyond the realm of science - fiction.

Since then, additional high - profile studies have come out — including an article, published in the journal of Psychological Science in the Public Interest, which found no evidence that brain games improve everyday cognition — but the topic is still very much up for debate.

A colleague of mine, Stephen Zarlenga, has just published a historical study, The Lost Science of Money (2002), showing that public - sector fiat money has a much better record than privately created fiat money.

If I were choosing recent books in this area which most deserve to be read outside the country, I would start with Oliver O'Donovan's political theology in The Desire of the Nations; John Milbank's critique of the social sciences in Theology and Social Theory; Timothy Gorringe's provocative political reading of Karl Barth in Karl Barth: Against Hegemony; Peter Sedgwick's The Market Economy and Christian Ethics; Michael Banner's Christian Ethics and Contemporary Moral Problems; Duncan Forrester's Christian Justice and Public Policy; and Timothy Jenkins's Religion in Everyday Life: An Ethnographic Approach, which argues with a dense interweaving of theory and empirical study for a social anthropological approach to English religion which has learned much from theology.

Since we rely on science and public reason to regulate much of our existence, our belief becomes something private, tepid and inhibited.

After much petitioning by the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI), The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has announced plans to form an advisory committee meeting which will review clinical studies conducted on common food dyes including Yellow 5 and Red 40 and the link connecting them to adverse behavior issues in children.

«(Consolidation is) unlikely to reach the voters at this point, given the strong push - back against it, coming not only from communities in the city, but also much of the suburbs,» said Grant Reeher, director of the Campbell Public Affairs Institute and a political science professor in Syracuse University's Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, in an email.

Toward the end of my Ph.D., I realised that although I enjoyed being a scientist, I was much more interested in the application of science to public health and the environment than in basic science.

For many scientists, translating science from tech - talk to public - friendly, jargon - free English is about as much fun as disinfecting petri dishes.

Evangelical Christians constitute as much as 30 % of the U.S. population and their influence on public support and perceptions of science is considerable.

The principles of the scientific method may be constant, but much diversity can be found worldwide in how scientists are perceived — by themselves as well as by the general public — and how science is practiced as a craft.

But he faces a high bar: Mann has played a key role in climate science for decades, and the law generally requires a much higher burden of proof from public figures, said CEI general counsel Sam Kazman.

Science must drive public policy as much as possible, and I will continue to act on that belief.

One reason is that the public pays taxes that support much of the spending on basic science.

Next were the innovation years, which saw the birth of publishers such as the Public Library of Science and of software infrastructure that makes it much easier to launch a digital journal.

«What is a nuisance for rich - country researchers (constant emails) is a major corruption for developing - country science — a corruption of the legitimate and vital open - access publishing model and a corruption of the vast funds, much of which are public, invested in global health research.

Digital technologies have enabled a massive increase in writing, much of it for public consumption — which, lest we forget, used to be the domain of professionals, from medieval scribes to Victorian novelists to science journalists.

The reason there is so much support in Labour for increasing the funding of British science is that the problems of young scientists like Woolley and Cooke have become very public.

In only two weeks of driving, the district coordinator of science for the Port Chester, N.Y., public school system has driven at least 600 miles (965 kilometers) on the car and her fuel cell Equinox has gotten as much as 191 miles (307 kilometers) on its three full tanks (each holding slightly more than four kilograms, or 8.8 pounds, of compressed hydrogen gas).

Those who marched on April 22 are concerned with ensuring science's role in shaping public policy and with how much funding science receives.

Buried away in government departments and lacking public scrutiny, much of it did not meet the standards now expected of public science, he said.

This is not so much a case against forensic science as it is a case against science illiteracy of the public (and of course the attorneys representing the defendant).

But he worries that public support may not stay strong if science becomes too much of a political pawn.

He clearly relishes encouraging public understanding of science, but simply rewriting the text and ideas of A Brief History of Time (as he has been doing for much of the past 20 years) is not enough.

His paradox, then, is that much of the public's fascination with his science seems to rest squarely on the nonscientific aspects of who he is.

Fellows provide much - needed in - house expertise in the areas of science, technology and engineering, helping Congress to legislate more effectively on public policy issues of a scientific and technical nature.

And while much of the public is aware that the National Science Foundation (NSF) backs a lot of great and useful research, the agency knows that much of it could use more publicity.

The Malaria Capers, on the other hand, is just the thing for the scientifically literate, but may not do much to improve public understanding of science.

The Pontifical Council for Culture has been charged with explaining much of this unfolding Church doctrine to the public in a way that builds a philosophical bridge between science and theology.

Their argument is much the same: Who else, other than the federal government, can ensure that this science for the public good is reliably carried out?

Reporting their results Jan. 29 in PLOS ONE (published by the Public Library of Science), researchers say the study validates a tool that would let doctors decide much faster which severely sick children need to receive aggressive life - saving therapy.

Understanding how much society values those future people should be an influential component of climate policy decisions,» said Noah Scovronick, co-lead author and a postdoctoral research associate at Princeton University's Program in Science, Technology, and Environmental Policy (STEP), which is based at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.

Hey Gavin, if your job is to do «climate science» and not «persuade» the public, why do you spend so much time and effort with RealClimate.Org?

«The day signified much more than these teachers learning about some instructional materials,» said Dan Gallagher, the Science Program Manager for Seattle public schools.

In order to build trust between the public and an institution and their researchers, there is much additional information that can help them visualise and contextualise the science.

SEI 2106 shows oodles of data that almost everyone will conclude is very solid evidence denying my prediction (i.e., since academic science in the US is doing such a productive job and provides so much of value to the public, then all must be excellent!).

I'm doing a clinical research, writing grants, writing papers, and going down the academic route, but I care so much about the world that I'm also teaching the public, doing TED Talks, creating a website, writing books, and giving the public the same tools that I'm researching and letting them know, «Here's the science behind why I've designed it this way and why I'm doing the science this way.»

General Mills is being sued by the Center for Science in the Public Interest because Cheerios Protein doesn't actually contain as much protein as the front of the package claims.

When you go through the science, yeah, it's a perfectly natural response to get absolutely angry at the terrible science that had been done and how the public health community took it and converted it into these messages that could do so much harm.

A 2012 paper in the journal Psychological Science in the Public Interest concluded that sites «build their algorithms around principles — typically similarity but also complementarity — that are much less important to relationship well - being than has long been assumed.»

At least, the historical value excuses most of the shortcomings, this hailing from the end of film noir's height, revealing much on public tastes of the time and even touching upon the Cold War paranoia for which the decade and its parabolic science fiction are recalled.

Director Steven Soderbergh's big - budget thriller about the global spread of a mysterious illness stumbles by focusing too much on public policy and science and to little on the human drama as civilians and government officials race to stop the deadly outbreak.

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In retrospect, however, the frequent appeals to science and social science over the past century were usually not much more than rhetorical gambits meant to persuade the public and to disable the opposition.

For much of the past few years, reflecting general concerns about the quality of public schooling, discussions of magnet schools have centered on their potential for providing intensive instruction in such subjects as science and mathematics, serving as models of effectiveness, and increasing family choice within the public system.

This may not much matter when it comes to the study of material science or Renaissance poetry, but it does if we hope to see responsible researchers contribute to public discussion of education.

Despite President Johnson's personal interest in his arguments, Moynihan said, the years that immediately followed his report — the era of the Great Society — brought an approach to social science and to public policy that made the problem he had diagnosed much more difficult to address effectively, and even to talk about honestly.

This state of affairs may not much matter when it comes to the study of material science or Renaissance poetry, but it does if we're hoping to see responsible researchers contribute to public discussions about schools and schooling.

At Public School 10 on the edge of Park Slope, Brooklyn, parents begged the principal to postpone the lower school science fair, insisting it was going to add too much pressure while they were preparing their children for the coming state tests.

Barry Burden, a UW - Madison political science professor, said Walker's approval ratings don't provide as much of a cushion as he's had in past election cycles, and visiting schools and providing more money for schools might rebuild public support.