Sentences with word «nonscience»

Lubell retains his position at CCNY, where he teaches a popular course on astronomy for nonscience majors.

Those who pursued nonscience or applied science degrees («artsies,» as my mechanical engineering father and brother called them) were not up to the challenge to succeed in the real world of numbers and rigorous scientific experimentation.

Many enter graduate school, for example, with little or no astronomy background and yet their «bread and butter» in academic positions is teaching general astronomy to nonscience students.

While this prevailing opinion of nonscience graduates is rarely valid, there is an undeniable advantage to having a science degree.

From the outset, we wanted to cover all the important nonscience skills that young scientists need to acquire to be productive and successful.

As worthy as these scientists» scientific and public achievements are, when the average person can name maybe five science celebrities at the most — but could probably name more than 1000 nonscience celebrities (I'm just guessing, but if you have a few hours, try it)-- it's time to admit that we're using the word «celebrity» differently than the rest of the world is.

Although we also permit the presentation of an occasional nonscience idea, such as a recent presentation on fashionable nursing apparel, in practice we will hear talks on basic science, early - or late - stage technology, or pure business.

From its inception, the Career Development Center for Postdocs and Junior Faculty (CDC) has aimed to fill this deficit by educating young researchers in the large body of nonscience knowledge that young academic scientists need to advance their careers and the research infrastructure of the United States.

The men are most likely to be in leadership positions and math - intensive jobs, whereas the women are more likely to be in health sciences or nonscience professions.

For comparison, the average response to this question from nonscience Ph.D. students was 4.9, indicating somewhat more intellectual engagement.

The increasingly popular middle course, of doing one science and two nonscience A levels, may be interesting and even broadly educative, but is no use to anyone considering studying science further into higher education.

However, you can be considered with a 4 - year nonscience degree if you have taken several prerequisite science classes.

No wonder Ph.D. s have difficulty making transitions to nonscience careers.

We'll continue to offer the best how - to articles on the basic nonscience skills that scientists need to succeed.

Nonscience parts of the space program have borne the brunt of the cuts, but a bevy of science missions are also at risk, including the resurrection of Russia's lunar program.

«Science and Nonscience Concerning Human - Caused Climate Warming.»

That abject nonscience crap is public health dangerous.

Enough of this «greenhouse nonscience»... the study needed to protect «life as we know it» needing MORE «Public notice / concern» is in the production & consistent persistence of the Planetary Dipole, in both it's processes of production AND continuance.

Science Careers discusses the value of teaching science to nonscience majors and a podcast segment addresses the effects of teacher quality on early reading.

These concerns lie at the heart of an important book, The Myth of Scientific Literacy by Morris Shamos, who has spent many years in the US trying to communicate science to nonscience students.

If the student is still considering dropping the course and pursuing a nonscience course or major, you have to recognize that the realities we face sometimes dictate the path we pursue.

These concerns stem from an overly simple demarcation between science and nonscience.

The student is considering dropping the class and pursuing a nonscience course instead.

In fact, most of my friends from graduate school were nonscience majors.

In his 2010 book Nonsense on Stilts (University of Chicago Press), philosopher of science Massimo Pigliucci concedes that there is «no litmus test,» because «the boundaries separating science, nonscience, and pseudoscience are much fuzzier and more permeable than Popper (or, for that matter, most scientists) would have us believe.»

Like many pharmaceutical researchers, he has suffered through the drug industry's R&D downsizing in recent years and now is underemployed in a nonscience job.

But a recent informal study of 17,000 reviews done under the new system found that just 48 % addressed the nonscience criterion.

Such a claim doesn't match up with evidence in the classroom, says Ed Prather, associate staff scientist and senior lecturer with the Steward Observatory at the University of Arizona in Tucson, who teaches Astronomy 101 to nonscience majors.

«This is not a sound science budget, this is a nonscience budget,» said Senator Angus King (I — ME) at the Senate energy panel hearing.

If you only twiddle the knob labelled «CO2 ″ then it will be the only variable impacting the output... and if that same label represents the backward beliefs in CAGW «nonscience» (that's a new word that I lay claim to... nonsense, get it?)

It's nonscience (rhymes with conscience).»