Sentences with phrase «of early science»

In fact, that appears to be the focus of much of their early science classes.

They highlighted the research that illustrates the value of early science knowledge and skills to later academic success, even beyond science achievement.

STEAM Park builds on every child's natural curiosity and desire to create, explore, and investigate the world of early science, technology, engineering, art, and maths (STEAM) through creative play.

Considering the importance of early science instruction, it makes sense to choose a program that directly addresses the way in which young students think and learn.

The spectacular development of early science gave rise to the eighteenth - century optimism that increase of knowledge would lead inevitably to happiness and virtue.

This experiment was considered to be one of the earliest science projects conducted in the area of weight gain which led to many assumptions and research on why is gaining weight a mega issue and how to address this issue.

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As an example, they cited outside research and «early evidence» from a previous study Matias conducted on Internet messaging board Reddit that involved showing readers of Reddit's «r / science» forum rules for commenting.

Environmentalists have long scrutinized Exxon Mobil for giving money «to dozens of right - leaning interest groups whose main purpose was to cast doubt on that very science» despite understanding the link between global warming and the burning of fossil fuels as early as the 1970s, according to the New York Times.

After a downturn in violence in the early years after the turn of the century, deaths related to Mexican drug wars totaled 121,669 between 2006 and 2012, according to a recent report from the Justice in Mexico project at the University of California - San Diego's Department of Politic Science and International Relations.

By summer the development staff had working demos of Sammy's Science House, the third in Edmark's early - learning line; Thinkin» Things 2, the second in its critical - thinking line for 4 - to 8 - year - olds; and the first two titles in a line called Imagination Express, a series of interactive story - writing programs for 6 - to 12 - year - olds.

• Grail, a life sciences company focused on early cancer detection that operates as a subsidiary of Illumina Inc. (Nasdaq: ILMN), raised more than $ 900 million in Series B funding.

The pre-eminent American science journalist, Gleick herein explores the history and effects of knowledge communication between humans, drawing a link from African talking drums and the earliest alphabets through the telegraph — once «a nervous system for the Earth» — to Wikipedia and Twitter, and the current state of information overload from which so many claim to suffer.

In fact, Mary Shelley is considered one of the earliest writers of science fiction.

Dollar Shave Club's subsequent $ 1 billion sale to Unilever was no fluke: Science helped steer that ship, but the earlier viral advertising success of Dollar Shave Club demonstrated the cultural cohesion between the companies.

«The prospect of being able to make important product design decisions early on in my career was enough to sell me,» says Briana Whelan, a University of Virginia computer science and mathematics major who joined APT as an associate product manager despite being recruited by Google, Microsoft, and KPMG.

Look at STEM (science, technology, engineering and math)-- if we focused on finding early indicators of high performers in our education system, then treated them differently as they progressed through school as potential Canadian innovators, by the time they got to Grade 12 and were thinking about university, they would be wildly ahead of the innovation curve.»

Peregrine is one of the early adopters of a new breed of profit - analyzing software that promises to transform the dark art of pricing into an exact science.

This outdoor - adventure lover's paradise is one of the most educated metro areas in the U.S.. Also, the local Colorado Collaborative for Girls in STEM, funded by the National Science Foundation, aims to get girls interested in science and technology careers eaScience Foundation, aims to get girls interested in science and technology careers eascience and technology careers early on.

Never mind that his reason for abandoning a political science degree at the University of New Brunswick early was because he got a job working for the province's premier.

A graduate of Bunbury Cathedral Grammar, Andrew Hall admits he was hardly a model student when he started a science degree in the early 1990s at the University of Western Australia.

Commissioned in the exciting early days of the Shuttle program, it proved that Canadian science and engineering could match any in the world.

Because beyond his typically bombastic proclamation that «it's already too late» for most women to become programmers is a much more important message: Computer science ought to be a basic part of school curriculum, giving both male and female students early exposure to an increasingly important skill set in today's economy.

The BBC piece by By Renuka Rayasam takes this science and runs with it in a direction that will please anyone who has shuffled foggy - headed through decades of early morning start times.

But research on the contact lenses began several years earlier at the University of Washington, where scientists worked under National Science Foundation funding.

• GRAIL, Inc., a Menlo Park, Calif. - based life sciences company, has agreed to combine with Cirina, Ltd., a Hong Kong. - based company focused on early detection of cancer.

The battery is still in the early stages of development, with a recent paper describing it published in the journal Energy & Environmental Science.

The Secret Life of the Grown - Up Brain: The Surprising Talents of the Middle - Aged Mind (Viking) is a roundup of the most recent science on how the human brain ages, as well as a guide to «toning up your brain circuits» to better weather the onset of age — which is itself a relatively new problem for humankind, writes author Barbara Strauch, The New York Times «s deputy science and health and medical science editor, whose earlier book, The Primal Teen, considered the teenage brain.

Of course, increasing the ranks of women in the life sciences has to begin with encouraging girls to get involved in STEM fields at an early agOf course, increasing the ranks of women in the life sciences has to begin with encouraging girls to get involved in STEM fields at an early agof women in the life sciences has to begin with encouraging girls to get involved in STEM fields at an early age.

If yours is a bit shorter, you're most likely an early riser, says Katherine Sharkey, MD, PhD, associate director of the Sleep for Science Research Lab.

Earlier this month, social science researchers published an analysis of mortality data from the Puerto Rico Vital Statistics System to compare the historical death averages for September and October to deaths this year.

She earned her Master's Degree in Early Childhood Education from Hunter College and obtained her Bachelors of Science Degree in Chemical Engineering from Tufts University.

LONDON — Conservative strategist Stephen K. Bannon oversaw Cambridge Analytica's early efforts to collect troves of Facebook data as part of an ambitious program to build detailed profiles of millions of American voters, a former employee of the data - science firm said Tuesday.

You could imagine things that, I don't know the science of this that well, but there are early markers of things like heart attacks and possibly there are things people could wear that would help alert them very early.

Bezos had an early love of computers and studied computer science and electrical engineering at Princeton University.

According to a letter (PDF) written by the university earlier this week, five department servers were compromised, which all had the personal information of students who took classes in computer science, materials science and engineering and world languages.

These early security problems should come as no surprise to anyone involved in the field of computer science, but those entering Bitcoin from a financial background will want nothing to do with the currency until the payment system can be made fool - proof.

The Cintrifuse Syndicate Fund is a strategic fund of funds focused on top - performing, early stage venture funds in technology and life sciences.

On any given day, Canada's leading researchers unravel the mysteries of biology in state - of - the - art labs throughout the Toronto Medical Discovery Tower and the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research; early - stage science and technology companies put business plans into action in the MaRS Incubator; organizations across the innovation spectrum grow their businesses in the Heritage Building — the original brick façade of the old Toronto General Hospital.

Bringing Science To Early Stage Investing Social Starts is a $ 60M + venture capital partnership with a uniquely data - driven approach to investing in moment - of - inception and Series A financing rounds.

The G7 would be matched with an initial annual cohort of 23 early stage companies, sourced from mentors, benefactors, the Next 36, other accelerators and, most of all, university science labs.

We have seen many early stage VC shops and Angel Groups move out of the early stage life - science sector over the past decade and in particular the past 3 - 4 years.

I could sit here and point out how stupid you are for believing in science, a group of people that once believed the Earth was flat as early as a few hundred years ago, or believed that bleeding someone out was the best way to cure the flu... or as early as the 40's and 50's that it was okay for people to drink water with high levels of radiation because it would give you energy and cure what ails ya.

These efforts gathered steam in the early years of the last century as the Progressive Movement sought at once to break the power of the old party bosses and to bring the insights of the social sciences to bear on public life.

In the earliest stages of a religion people are typically looking for ways to explain the unexplainable, such as why it rains, why natural disasters happen, why people get sick, there are seasons, what the stars are, and countless other questions for which current science had no answer thousands of years ago.

Even primitive societies were aware of it, and it inspired not only feelings of religious awe (many expressions of which are found in the Bible itself) but also the earliest attempts at mathematical science.

The model that informed much of early modern science, and is still influential today, was the medieval clock, complete with moving figures.

Now in his earliest metaphysic embedded in Science and the Modern World Whitehead did address a problem common to philosophers of that period: how to find a workable substitute for space, time, and matter, the discredited notions of scientific materialism.

In the early period, down to 1922, White - head was preoccupied with mathematics, logic, and philosophy of science.

The contemporary «learning society,» overwhelmed with information, knowledge and entertainment, requires discerning and constructive responses of an even greater order than those of the early church in the sophisticated rhetorical culture of the Roman Empire, or the early modern Western church faced with printing and transformations in scholarship, geographical horizons, sciences, nations and industries.

The development of a new philosophy of science which radically questions the earlier mechanical - materialistic world - view within which classical modern science worked and also the search for a new philosophy of technological development and struggle for social justice which takes seriously the concern for ecological justice, are very much part of the contemporary situation.