Sentences with phrase «of celebrity scientists»

But the importance of celebrity scientists is not just about narcissism and putting a public face on a field that, many would say, requires no public face because it encompasses The Truth.

He moved on to UCLA to pursue a Ph.D. with Dr. Roy Walford, who had become something of a celebrity scientist while pushing the idea that severely restricting caloric intake would extend life.

Not exact matches

In 1998, Le, then 20, was named Young Australian of the Year, a highly publicized government honor that made her a national celebrity and put her on a speaking circuit, where she hobnobbed with prime ministers, scientists, and international captains of industry.

As we become ever more immersed in information, we're ever more saturated with the opinions of experts, whether «mass» experts like celebrity CEOs, high - profile scientists, health professionals and consultants, or «local» experts — your doctor, stockbroker or auto mechanic.

And so the Riverside conference headlines the assurance of celebrity astronomer Carl Sagan, who says that «scientists and the religious community must work together to preserve the environment of the Earth.

In addition, the charitable trust «Sense About Science» organised a «don't destroy the research» petition in support of the scientists which attracted in excess of 6000 signatures from a wide variety of people, including celebrities Stephen Fry and Tim Minchin.

Last year, Declan Fahy, a communications lecturer at Dublin City University, argued in his book titled The New Celebrity Scientists: Out of the Lab and into the Limelight, that, for good or ill, celebrity scientists are more abundant today Scientists: Out of the Lab and into the Limelight, that, for good or ill, celebrity scientists are more abundant today scientists are more abundant today than ever.

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.

In a new study, scientists trained eight female Welsh mountain sheep to recognize photos of four celebrities: actress Emma Watson, former U.S. President Barack Obama, actor Jake Gyllenhaal, and U.K. newsreader Fiona Bruce.

DOUBLE TAKE Scientists trained sheep to recognize pictures of celebrity faces, and showed that the animals have advanced, face - processing abilities similar to those of humans.

Scientists trained sheep to recognize pictures of celebrity faces including those of Barack Obama, Emma Watson and Jake Gyllenhaal (experiment shown below).

He was a brilliant scientist, yes, but also a thoughtful philosopher and a master of his own celebrity.

Scientists with a high score on the index, named after the reality TV star Kim Kardashian, one of the most popular celebrities on the social media platform, should «get off Twitter» and write more papers, suggested Hall, who works at the University of Liverpool in the United Kingdom.

Advances in image - manipulation software have made it trivial to radically alter the appearance of models and celebrities in photos, notes Hany Farid, a computer scientist who studies digital forensics and image analysis at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire.

Human rights groups objected because of Obiang's abysmal record on human rights and their campaign gained support among scientists and celebrities.

Some decried the lack of scientists of color or female scientists on our list — just four women made the top 50, for example — and noted that our search strategy, which started with a handful of Twitter celebrity scientists and looked at who they followed, likely biased our discoveries toward white males.

IN DEPTH: Behind - the - scenes with Napster co-founder Sean Parker in Hollywood where celebrities like Tom Hanks and Keira Knightly turned out to meet the real stars: the scientists of Parker's new cancer institute.

Regardless of whether you think of Pluto as a planet or not — that debate is still raging among planetary scientists and celebrities alike — the New Horizons flyby was a historic moment for solar system exploration, and it deserved every bit of attention it got.

Other participants include renown scientists, thinkers, artists, policy makers and celebrities like George Whitesides, CEO, Virgin Galactic; Lou Friedman, Ph.D. astronomer and co-founder of the Planetary Society; Jill Tarter, Ph.D., co-founder of SETI Institute, astronomer and TED Prize winner; Mae Jemison, M.D., physician, engineer and entrepreneur; Hakeem Oluseyi, Ph.D., TED Fellow and Chief Science Officer, Discovery Channel; Amy Millman, CEO and co-founder Springboard Enterprises; Mmboneni Muofhe, Deputy Director, South African Department of Science and Technology; Pam Contag, Ph.D., CEO, Molecular Sciences Institute; Pete Worden, Ph.D., Chairman, Breakthrough Prize Foundation and former Director, NASA Ames; and, Kurt Zatloukal, M.D., Professor, Medical University of Graz (Austria), among others.

Participants include renown scientists, thinkers, artists, policy makers and celebrities like George Whitesides, CEO, Virgin Galactic; Lou Friedman, Ph.D. astronomer and co-founder of the Planetary Society; Jill Tarter, Ph.D., co-founder of SETI Institute, astronomer and TED Prize winner; Mae Jemison, M.D., physician, engineer and entrepreneur; Hakeem Oluseyi, Ph.D., TED Fellow and Chief Science Officer, Discovery Channel; Amy Millman, CEO and co-founder Springboard Enterprises; Mmboneni Muofhe, Deputy Director, South African Department of Science and Technology; Pam Contag, Ph.D., CEO, Molecular Sciences Institute; Pete Worden, Ph.D., Chairman, Breakthrough Prize Foundation and former Director, NASA Ames; and, Kurt Zatloukal, M.D., Professor, Medical University of Graz (Austria), among others.

Other participants include renown scientists, thinkers, artists, policy makers and celebrities like George Whitesides, CEO, Virgin Galactic; Mickey Fisher, Creator, EXTANT; Lou Friedman, Ph.D. astronomer and co-founder of the Planetary Society; Jill Tarter, Ph.D., co-founder of SETI Institute, astronomer and TED Prize winner; Mae Jemison, M.D., physician, engineer and entrepreneur; Hakeem Oluseyi, Ph.D., TED Fellow and Chief Science Officer, Discovery Channel; Amy Millman, CEO and co-founder Springboard Enterprises; Mmboneni Muofhe, Deputy Director, South African Department of Science and Technology; Pam Contag, Ph.D., CEO, Molecular Sciences Institute; Pete Worden, Ph.D., Chairman, Breakthrough Prize Foundation and former Director, NASA Ames; and, Kurt Zatloukal, M.D., Professor, Medical University of Graz (Austria), among others.

In case you missed it, a DIY rocket scientist named Mike Hughes recently launched a homemade rocket over the California desert as part of an ongoing mission to prove that the Earth is flat, becoming the latest celebrity in the recently resurgent flat Earth movement.

(STANFORD SCHOOL OF MEDICINE) For decades, doctors, scientists, celebrities, and cool - cat executives were all used in cigarette ads to deflect fears that smoking was dangerous.

Canadian - born celebrity trainer and nutritionist Harley Pasternak has a Masters of Science in Exercise Physiology and Nutritional Sciences and as well as training Hollywood's elite he has also spent time in the past serving as an exercise and nutrition scientist for Canada's Department of National Defence.

Clover neither sensationalizes nor heckles, he simply lays out the facts, and is merciless at pointing the finger at the guilty parties - from the trawlers with vast nets that destroy everything in their paths, to incompetent and / or dishonest scientists; to celebrity chefs who proudly display the «marine equivalent of panda, rhino and great apes» on their menus; to sports fisherman (23 % of endangered species caught in North American waters are caught by sports fisherman) and to the general public for whom eating fish has become «a kind of dietary talisman».

THE DRAWING CENTER «Exploratory Works: Drawings From the Department of Tropical Research Field Expeditions» sets the scene with old magazine articles and comic books; imaginative field - station re-creations by Mark Dion; a few tagged animal corpses as neat and compact as folding umbrellas; and a palmetto fan taken undersea in his bathysphere by the celebrity scientist William Beebe (1877 - 1962), whose field work is the subject of this exhibition.

In other words, he wins no matter what, because he is a celebrity and the rest of you are, well, mere scientists doing serious work.

One week ago Lewis was vaulted to celebrity status by conservative and contrarian Web sites and commentators when he disseminated his letter of resignation from the 48,000 - member American Physical Society over its support for what he called «the global warming scam, with the (literally) trillions of dollars driving it, that has corrupted so many scientists, and has carried APS before it like a rogue wave.»

I have come to believe that the tree ring science has been wildly over promoted in terms of its accuracy and acquired celebrity status, which the scientists of the time should have queried.

The FoS website as of December 21, 2005, in the middle of the federal election campaign, features the headline «Who needs scientists, when you've got celebrities!!!»

Anyone in small fields with celebrity scientists would be familiar of this «nest of vipers» effect.

What I think has happened is that some scientists, motivated by the very unscientific pursuit of prestige (big budget, flashy computer, big team, celebrity), ran their pitch by the politicians who saw the power of the story.

«What I think has happened is that some scientists, motivated by the very unscientific pursuit of prestige (big budget, flashy computer, big team, celebrity), ran their pitch by the politicians».

One of the world's «elite» and celebrity scientists, and a major force in global warming alarmism, provided a Twilight Zone interview (details here and here) in Australia.

Leftists, progressives, Democrats, liberals, socialists, crony - capitalists, communists, politicians, UN bureaucrats, crony - scientists, mainstream journalists and Hollywood celebrities are acknowledged as the world's climate - porn stars, as well as being in dire need of a basic manual titled «Climate for Dummies»... their statements regarding global warming and climate change continue to be living proof that stuck - on - stupid and cluelessness are in a constant battle to dominate the leftward thinking brain...

News of this finding flew around the world and the authors suddenly became the latest in a long line of celebrity climate scientists.

While none of these celebrities are climate scientists (as climate deniers are so hasty to point out), they are human beings with a legitimate interest in the future of our planet.

«The conclusions of a credible climate scientist with access to good data are very different than some of the rhetoric we've heard from Hollywood celebrities of late,» said Travis Davies, a spokesman from the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers.

Instead you've implied that celebrity astronauts are more knowledgable of climate science than actual climate scientists.