We cover trends in (subfields of) philosophy of science, current news / science stories that link up with issues in the philosophy of science, informal philosophy of science conference reports, stories from the world of academic philosophy from a philosophy
of science angle, and anything else that might take our fancy.
But perhaps you want more
of a science angle.
NO... but people that believe in the biblical fantasy will always try to add some kind
of science angle to it so as to legitimize the badly written piece of crappy fiction..
Not exact matches
While there are the
science fiction - driven
angles of AI, like robots, self - driving cars, Internet
of Things, and augmented reality, there are also more practical applications that affect business owners every day, especially those working in the virtual customer service world
of online retail.
As our review
of the CTS «
Science and Religion» pamphlet later in this issue shows, we would have a different
angle, particularly concerning the nature
of the renewed concept
of the «form» to which Fr Selman refers.
I laugh at this Neochristian / Intelligent Design
angle in which
science has now become confirmation
of proof
of god.
Science and metaphysics too, providing the latter is viewed as a natural mode
of cognition and is not unconsciously supplemented by theological knowledge about God's saving action in the history
of redemption, can each from their own
angle quite well think
of God as the transcendent ground
of all reality,
of its existence and
of its becoming, as the primordial reality comprising everything, supporting everything, but precisely for that reason can not regard him as a partial factor and component in the reality with which we are confronted, nor as a member
of its causal series.
Rather than make their case from scripture, the couple have approached the issue from another
angle, as DeVon explains: «There's a tremendous amount
of science and research been done to show there's value in practising delayed gratification.
Vico's fantasia abhors partial vision, and the great mathematician and astronomer Henri Poincare is on his side when he observes in his Last Essays that in questions
of ethics
science alone can not suffice because it «can see only one part
of man, or, if you prefer, it sees everything but it sees everything from the same
angle.»
Among those
angling to replace the current chairman, Chief John Odigie - Oyegun, are a former Governor
of Edo State, Mr. Adams Oshiomohle; a former President
of the Senate, Chief Ken Nnamani; and the Minister
of Science and Technology, Dr. Ogbonna Onu.
After my postdoc, I decided it was time to part ways with academic
science and seriously considered my career options in the commercial
angle of science.
The Swiss Federal Institute
of Technology in Zurich (ETHZ) covers
science from all
angles.
On Friday, I posted a review
of the articles in the 16 August issue
of Science that have interesting career
angles — or all but one article.
«The primary purpose
of [Bioteach] is to simply provide a focal point
of freely accessible reference and educational resources that have a life
science angle,» says Dr. Dave Ng (pictured at left), founder
of the site and leader
of the Advanced Molecular Biology Laboratory (AMBL) at UBC.
The two studies funded by the National
Science Fund (NSF) in the US and the High Impact Research (HIR) program in Malaysia tackled the issue
of bone - implant integration from different
angles.
«Using a robotic arm to immerse an object on an axis at various
angles, and measuring the volume displacement
of each dip, we combine each sequence and create a volumetric shape representation
of an object,» says Prof. Andrei Scharf,
of Ben - Gurion University
of the Negev, Department
of Computer
Science.
The very shallow sun
angle on the rings caused the clouds
of debris to look bright against the darkened rings in pictures from Cassini's imaging
science subsystem.
Using a scanning tunneling microscope, scientists observed nanoscale peaks and dips on a sheet
of copper, with
angles of a few degrees, researchers report in the July 28
Science.
«
Science and the broader social issues aren't going to stop being relevant, so there will always be interesting
angles in need
of discussion.
Due to their tiny size, irregular shape and limited viewing
angle, commonly used microscopic imaging techniques can not always capture the whole object's shape often leaving out valuable information that can be important in numerous areas
of science, engineering and medicine.
The positive relationship between swimming speed and larval orientation
angle suggests that there was also an active response to tilting in turbulence,» said Karen Chan, assistant professor
of life
sciences at HKUST and one
of the co-authors in the study.
«The tilted -
angle standing surface acoustic waves method has the least disturbance or disruption to the living cells being separated compared to other available methods so far,» said Ming Dao, principal research scientist, materials
science and engineering, Massachusetts Institute
of Technology.
Read about the project's history, politics, and business
angles, and meet some
of the effort's unsung heroes in this week's
Science News section.
«The
angled approach allows for greater use
of hip momentum, which creates more rotational momentum — more angular momentum — in the foot,» says William Barfield, a specialist in biomechanics and orthopedic
science at the College
of Charleston and the Medical University
of South Carolina.
The «Groovy Galilean Satellites» session at last week's Lunar and Planetary
Science Conference (LPSC) covered the moons from a wide range
of angles: analysis
of past mission data, testable hypotheses for future missions, and discussion
of the use
of ground - based data.
«With MESSENGER, we have now obtained images
of the entire planet at high resolution and, crucially, at different
angles to the sun that show features Mariner 10 could not in the 1970s,» Steven A. Hauck, II, a professor
of planetary
sciences at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, and the study's co-author, said in a statement.
«This is important biotechnologically, because if you look at if from the
angle of genome editing, the delivery
of small genes into cells is much easier than the delivery
of large genes,» said Rotem Sorek
of the Weizmann Institute
of Science in Israel who was not involved in the work.
In a Forensic
Science class, students learn from police department forensic investigator Ryan Andrews how to calculate the
angle of impact
of individual bloodstains and use strings to determine the area the bloodstains would have originated.
Notes and guidance (non-statutory) Pupils should be introduced to the use
of symbols and letters to represent variables and unknowns in mathematical situations that they already understand, such as: • missing numbers, lengths, coordinates and
angles • formulae in mathematics and
science • equivalent expressions (for example, a + b = b + a) • generalisations
of number patterns • number puzzles (for example, what two numbers can add up to).
In Polman and colleagues» project, the writing criteria for
science news articles included «present the personal or local impact
of a timely, narrow, focused topic
of interest to the audience from a unique
angle» and «communicate information that accurately represents up - to - date
science and forefront the most important elements.»
For example, in school
science classes, students are manipulating variables such as forces,
angles, distances and time and observing the effects
of these changes in virtual environments that are sometimes difficult or impossible to create in normal classrooms.
«The inspiration came from various
angles, movies like Tron and other elements
of the
science fiction world.»
Diane has a PhD in Biology and has been teaching different
angles of science for over 20 years.
The popular press rarely looks at all
angles of a topic in the
sciences.
And those purveying the «culture / hype»
angle seem to me to be taking advantage
of the fact that most people won't learn the
science.
In fact, as a theme, it would make a great theme for a
Science Tuesday section, which could cover the topic
of population from all sorts
of angles.
A fashion statement with a
science angle, as seen at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute commencement weekend on the shoulder
of a talented chemistry major.
Apart from the fundamental scientific advances
of the breakthrough papers, there is an hierarchy
of classes
of lesser papers, along the lines
of those which — • Confirm or deny the main thrust
of a breakthrough paper by arriving from other
angles • Provide an alternative or improvement to the main findings
of breakthrough papers • Contribute more observation to the breakthrough paper and discuss its relevance • Seek to set a complementary base for a breakthrough in a related aspect
of science • Report the views
of a clutch
of authors about a topic they deem to have political importance • Ditto for educational importance • Write papers that are knowingly lacking good
science to place authors in one camp or another • Lambast an author or authors for being on the «wrong» side
of a polarised topic • Perform meta analysis Etc..
David Tyfield (DT): Â I don't think its just the media, but its the main thinking behind a lot
of policy. We would want to distinguish between technology and innovation, where technology is just new kinds
of machines. Innovation on the other hand is a much bigger issue than that and its not just the technical issue
of introducing new machines. My background is in looking at
science and innovation from a sociological political economic
angle, which means we treat innovation as a social process.
As an academic who tries (not always successfully) to practice sound
science himself, it is clear to me that Steele is a «scientist's scientist» — thorough and fair to the bone, not resting until he has looked at a complex problem from every
angle; faithfully following the evidence wherever it may lead; presenting each argument in keeping with Einstein's motto «as simple as possible, but not simpler»; giving credit where credit is due, even to those people who on the whole confound rather than clarify the issues; and doing all this with a lifetime
of learning and experience under his belt.
So the
science that forms our understanding
of the climate system and climate change has undergone tremendous challenge from many different
angles and continues to do so.
Indeed, Otto maintains that «Americans find themselves in an absurd and dangerous position: in a time when the majority
of the world's leading country's largest challenges revolve around
science, few reporters are covering them from a scientific
angle.»
The
science of catastrophic man - caused global warming is settled, no need to pay attention to what skeptic climate scientists say about the
science or its political
angles, such as the «97 % consensus» because they are paid illicit industry money to lie....
As these findings are discussed, argued, examined from many
angles, and made known through the usual scientific channels — laboratories around the world,
science departments
of universities, the National Academy
of Sciences, the National Research Council, peer review, replication
of results, etc., etc. — there will be disagreements.
The International Game Fish Association is a not - for - profit recreational fishing organization committed to the conservation
of game fish and the promotion
of responsible, ethical
angling practices through
science, education, rule - making, and record keeping.
That's simply looking at global warming from a different
angle, without lots
of science prerequisites.
The part
of the society who has been educated in atmospheric
sciences will probably already understand many features
of the GHE; however, they too may benefit from a new
angle in terms
of explaining the concepts to others.
I also have gone through the codes available in the CRU FOI2009.zip — those source files betray astounding level
of incompetence from several
angles... 1) management 2) computer -
science 3) quality assurance.
In further proof
of the value
of the author's proposed contribution to education, and offered as a gift to the State
of Indiana, is the fact
of his solutions
of the trisection
of the
angle, duplication
of the cube and quadrature having been already accepted as contributions to
science by the American Mathematical Monthly, the leading exponent
of mathematical thought in this country.
All in the name
of clicks
science, TechRax has previously established himself as enemy number one to Apple's Industrial Design team — doing everything from assaulting new iPhones with DeWalt
angle grinders to crushing an Apple Watch Edition between two magnets.