Sentences with phrase «of pop science»
Apropos of current events, I've been reading Alan S. Miller and Satoshi Kanazawa's new book, Why Beautiful People Have More Daughters, a rollicking bit of pop science that turns the lens of evolutionary psychology on issues of the day, everything from suicide bombers to the porn industry.
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Editor Caroline van den Brul has changed Antenna into a brash weekly half - hour synthesis of the tricks of pop science television.
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Everyone's favorite astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson's StarTalk Radio is a comedic podcast where deGrasse Tyson discusses science, pop culture and more with some of today's hottest names in tech, such as Elon Musk and Alexis Ohanian.
Ten interactive exhibits and galleries at MoPOP, Seattle's Museum of Popular Culture (formerly the EMP) offer visitors a far - ranging tour of music history, contemporary pop culture, science fiction, fantasy and a variety of offbeat trends.
No, but you mean to tell me that we simply popped into existence out of nothing, simply from an involuntary shudder that magically happened in the middle of absolutely nothing and then slowly through the sheer force of will (or accident, or telepathy, science hasn't quiet made its mind up on that one yet) one little green gob of magic stuff morphed into humans.
Despite its shiny artifice, Luhrmann nonetheless seems to lack any deeper reflexivity other than pop psychology and the current tools of human management science.
The book covers some familiar ground: professors» emphasis on research over teaching, the domination of science over the humanities, the unseemly connections between college presidents and corporate boards, the eye - popping sums spent on athletic programs.
Given the law of gravity (when did it pop into existence and when is the last time you noticed something come into existence from nothing, I for one am getting bored with the so called science hyperbole.
Along with a plethora of pop stars, activists, writers, celebrities and politicians, Dr. Katharine Hayhoe, the scientific adviser to the Evangelical Environmental Network and director of the Climate Science Center...
Damn you Atheists with your super-cool legacy of pop culture, science, technology, arts and literature.
We've been wanting to try a fun and easy science activity that involves dropping a bunch of mentos candies into different kinds of pop.
Read about the science and history of popcorn and more details about what makes popcorn pop from the Popcorn Board.
Check out Sarah's easy - to - assemble science kit that yields 10 super cool, easy science experiments, including a tiny hovercraft, an Alka - Seltzer lava lamp and an exploding bottle of pop.
Today Emma is making toffee apples and popping a bit of science in for good measure!
Presented Pop Beads, Jelly Beans and Golf Balls: the Art of Presenting the Science of Breastfeeding.
Science Sparks is one of my «Must Go To» blogs and I highly recommend that you pop over there for a root around once you have finished reading this post!
It's the Science Forum today on Vox Pop as we welcome back our esteemed panel of experts to answer your science queScience Forum today on Vox Pop as we welcome back our esteemed panel of experts to answer your science quescience questions.
Each of the three cities have a proud humanist history, Manchester being associated with Robert Owen, the eighteenth century social reformer and founder of the co-operative movement; Alan Turing, mathematician and founder of computer science; Professor John Harris, philosopher and bio-ethicist; and Professor Brian Cox, physicist, TV presenter and former pop - star.
A pop culture icon and ground - breaking physicist, Stephen Hawking is one of the most prominent figures in modern science.
It wasn't official, of course, but the big idea kept popping up: Science as a whole should consider adopting the ideals of «Web 2.0,» becoming more like the community process behind Wikipedia or the open - source operating system Linux.
But otherwise, the few science and math teachers in pop culture have tended to resemble the wimpy Mr. Peepers or the clueless Mr. Boynton from the sitcoms of TV's «golden age.»
What's worse, the actual science too often gets lost in the pop culture circus dominated by publicity - hungry hucksters and companies pushing gluten - free products full of chemical thickeners and starchy substitutions.
Csikszentmihalyi's Finding Flow 2, which focuses less on pop psychology and more on science, landed a spot on the personal - favorites area of my bookshelf.
«This insight puts some of the pop - science claims about current youth in a historical perspective: Yes, current youth are different from older generations, but this seems to be a consistent phenomenon over time.»
Subjects in the issue include the importance of natural selection, the sources of genetic variability, human evolution's past and future, pop evolutionary psychology, everyday applications of evolutionary theory, the science of the game Spore, and the ongoing threat to science education posed by creationist activists.
Yesterday I asked: what is the best pop science song of all time?
«The mechanical shuffling that occurs as dislocations pop up and over those atomic bumps creates a domino effect of more dislocations,» said study co-author Daryl Chrzan, a professor of materials science and engineering who led the theoretical effort in the project.
Pop Quiz: Q. — The U.S. lags in science and technology A. — False As nations such as China and India increased their global science and technology presence over the past few decade, researchers have groused that the U.S. was in danger of losing its edge.
XIAMEN, CHINA — The drinks were flowing freely and firecrackers were popping off as Chinese and U.K. scientists celebrated the opening of a new Sino - U.K. center on environmental science and technology.
[Another Editor's note: interested readers might want to read our analysis of the «professional science master's degree» programs that are popping up all over the country].
After stealthily taking a couple of journalism classes, a job ad for covering geophysics at Science popped up.
To be fair, the same is often the case for humanities courses for science and engineering majors, but the big difference is that these students can not help but be bombarded by literature, music and art elsewhere as a part of the pop culture that permeates daily life.
To make that snap, the shrimp squirt jets of water that form air bubbles, which then pop, Lohse, Michel Versluis, also of Twente, and their colleagues argue in the Sept. 22 Science.
Icelandic pop singer Bjrk gave a series of shows at the New York Hall of Science this February in support of her latest album, called Biophilia.
There's no dignity in science for a warbler popped head - down in a weighing scale as part of a massive effort to track migrating birds
Last year, Dr Joe Briscoe and Dr Steve Dunn from QMUL's School of Engineering and Materials Science found that playing pop and rock music improves the performance of solar cells, in research published with Imperial College London.
They Might Be Giants» pop - savvy Here Comes Science CD / DVD set is likely to draw both kids and adults with its blend of hook - filled music and hard sScience CD / DVD set is likely to draw both kids and adults with its blend of hook - filled music and hard sciencescience.
«Out of a study of hundreds of compounds, just these two popped right out,» said Adrian Gombart, an LPI principal investigator and associate professor in the OSU College of Science.
More to explore Physicists Explain Mentos — Soda Spray from Scientific American Science of Mentos — Diet Coke explosions explained from New Scientist The Science of Coke and Mentos from EepyBird.com Why do Mentos mints foam when you drop them into soda pop?
«Graphene electronics are still in their infancy; however, our measurements and simulations project that thermoelectric effects will become enhanced as graphene transistor technology and contacts improve» said Pop, who is also affiliated with the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science, and the Micro and Nanotechnology Laboratory at the U. of I....
We are gathered for the annual meeting of HEAS, which stands for the High Energy Amateur Science group and meets in this shed every year on the first Saturday of October for a day of, in Hull's words, «anything that has to do with bangs, pops and sizzles.»
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This insipid science fiction musical concerns a group of students paying their way through school by forming a pop band.
To anyone new to Stranger Things Imagine ET, Aliens, The Goonies, The Thing, IT and many other 80's -90's Science Fiction / Horror films books mixed together that was infused of so many pop culture references from the same time that they become hard to keep track of at times well THAT is pretty much Stranger Things in a Nutshell!
It's a pre-pubescent boy's fantasy of cool: a mash of silly pop - science buoying a beautiful woman's mutation from impossible party girl into deity through the agency of stem - cell - related drug abuse.
A perfect summer's day, a perfect champagne picnic in a meadow — but just as science lecturer Joe (Daniel Craig) is about to pop the question to his girlfriend Claire (Samantha Morton), the peace is interrupted by an out - of - control balloon, and in the rushed confusion of the ensuing rescue attempt, a man falls to his death.
Leaning heavily on the same kind of pop culture references that made the early seasons of «Community» so enjoyable, «Rick and Morty» is like a vulgar love letter to science fiction, from its «Doctor Who» - inspired theme song, to its blatant similarities to «Back to the Future.»
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None of it is rocket science, but Phillips has a knack for directing comedy (he would later go on to helm 2004's fun «Starsky & Hutch») and the cast are all game for a laugh (most notably Tom Green, who pops up just often enough to plunge an entire mouse into his gob, swing a giant snake around a room, and indulge in some inter-generational snogging).
Julia Roberts, Rebel Wilson, Amber Rose (with ex Wiz Khalifa), ET «s Carly Steel, Miles Teller and fiancee Keleigh Sperry, «New Obsession» singer Frankie, and Bill Nye «The Science Guy» were just some of the stars who popped in on Saturday (May 19).