Bruce Ames, a recognised authority, inventor
of useful science, changed his views over the years and is now writing commentary such as below:
Carelessly blaming global warming only adds to the dubious hype and mistrust
of useful science.
Not exact matches
Besides offering a
useful empathy workout to those
of us who are more privileged, as Gates suggests, it's also likely to help you appreciate what you have, and gratitude has been shown by
science to be a key to both happiness and success.
A forthcoming paper in Psychological
Science, from a research team led by Benjamin Baird and Jonathan Schooler
of the University
of California at Santa Barbara, demonstrates how daydreaming can be
useful.
I've culled the studies that are neither
useful nor funny - like the one that confirms women pretend to be happy about gifts they don't like while men don't, causing fights - to offer you a quick guide to the
science of the season:
That's the
useful insight
of a series
of small but intriguing studies carried out in the UK that recently published in the journal Psychological
Science.
And employees are right to loathe a practice that
science has shown yields little in the way
of actually
useful feedback.
I think a
useful system along these lines would go a long way towards de-emphasizing the importance
of «vanity journals» like Nature and
Science.
A Boston - based contributing editor, Freedman is the co-author
of A Perfect Mess, which examines the
useful role
of disorder in daily life, business, and
science.
A Second Opinion The folks at Sift
Science «are not the first people to come up with this, but they are the first making something
useful of it,» notes James Cannady, professor
of information assurance at the Graduate School
of Computer and Information Sciences at Nova Southeastern University in Fort Lauderdale, Fla..
Science isn't quite there yet, but a recent analysis from dating website Plenty
of Fish offers a few
useful insights into how to start a conversation and avoid the dreaded «seen» marker with no reply.
As a Biologist he should know the iterizations
of error
science goes through to get even one «fact:» remotely close to do something
useful with as technology.
In the second attitude, these gifts are corrupted: Philosophy,
science, history, poetry are merely recognized for the
useful knowledge they may happen to supply and are thus assimilated into the so - called great business
of human life - satisfying human wants.
But
science itself is a great intellectual adventure
of understanding and explaining that is free from the necessity
of providing
useful knowledge.
But the fact
of the matter is that as powerful as
science is, it has a long way to go before it can offer anything nearly as complete and practical and
useful to the subjective lives
of human beings as the teachings
of the various world religions.
In his encyclical letter on the importance
of St. Thomas» work, Pope Leo also alluded to the Church's need to maintain a deep study
of science: «When the Scholastics, following the teaching
of the Holy Fathers, everywhere taught throughout their anthropology that the human understanding can only rise to the knowledge
of immaterial things by things
of sense, nothing could be more
useful for the philosopher than to investigate carefully the secrets
of Nature, and to be conversant, long and laboriously, with the study
of physical
science.»
There are a number
of useful early chapters on the historical context
of the debate between
science and religion, where the authors juxtapose and compare the differing positions taken by various prominent psychologists / neuroscientists during the last century.
However,
science is not just a
useful source
of technology; it explains the world around us.
The imagery
of mechanism proved to be
useful to
sciences, such as biology in the late nineteenth century, which were only beginning to achieve measurability and predictability.
Useful theological distinctions have too often been overridden in textbook rehashes
of Christian
Science that try to make it «lie down» in some prefixed category (idealism, «Harmonialism,» Gnosticism, etc.).
No
USEFUL science experiment can include a god, as god is said to be capable
of anything, and thus is compatible with ANY experimental result.
Any specification
of the responsibilities that accompany our basic rights, any articulation
of the content
of the «laws
of nature,» any acknowledgement that the Church might be necessary for the state to judge and fulfill its obligations to the «power in heaven,» or any specification
of the meaning
of «nature and nature's God» — though article 1, sec. 8
of the Constitution may provide a clue when it empowers Congress «to promote the Progress
of Science and the
useful Arts.»
Theological language is never the «queen
of the
sciences» nor is it the only language
useful in describing the acts
of God.
With that in mind, I generally discount all
of the
science and knowledge that has been developed throughout human history as being
useful for living in the world we understand, but not truth by any means.
This body
of literature has generated some
useful hypotheses about the effects
of Puritanism on the rise
of science, its legitimation
of revolutionary dissent, and the qualities
of religious rationality, to mention only a few
of the themes that have been pursued.
A recognition
of the implications
of the I - Thou relation for epistemology would not mean a rejection
of those essential and eminently
useful objective techniques which the social
sciences have developed.
If we came to the cosmos armed only with the
useful but limited abstractions
of science, we might miss this pattern altogether.
This also confirms the way that partializing the truth (as we find in
science's quantification
of experience) is for both Whitehead and Bergson a kind
of falsehood, albeit
useful and needed.
Why not tell the pastor that if he wants to pray fine, but do something
useful too, like promoting math and
science education so we can develop alternative fuels and improve existing energy sources or encouraging other pastors to take the bus instead
of driving their Caddies and Rolls.
And the more scientific a man is, the more (I believe) he would agree with me that this is the job
of science — and a very
useful and necessary job it is too.
It will therefore be
useful to review briefly some main findings
of this fascinating
science.
Such Catholic philosophy is hamstrung by its failure to engage fully with material reality, and its credibility is shaken in the light
of the specific, successful and
useful results
of science.
The
science chapters are informative and interesting in their own right, and will provide
useful material for anyone likely to be debating the interaction
of religion and
science.
However, classifications such as these can be
useful for purposes
of research or treatment in
science and law.
The theological work which will be most
useful in the years ahead will be that which works out its motifs in correlation with the whole range
of the biological, behavioral, and social
sciences, and does so in language which has the widest possible touch with ordinary modes
of speech common to all educated persons.
Going forward, Seelig plans to create enzymes with
useful applications while he continues to explore the underlying basic
science of enzyme structure and function, aiming to learn more about the origin
of enzymes and how proteins evolve.
The cultural power
of science comes from its ability to explain many
of the observable workings
of reality, and also from the technology it creates, which can be very
useful in humanity's service.
Francis allows that
science and technology can lead to
useful innovations, crucial medicines, and a kind
of beauty in airplanes and skyscrapers.
But only when they are used by a society which is governed by the methods and results
of the new social
sciences of economics, sociology and psychology will they become
useful in the fullest manner.
He was at the conference to talk to us about chaos theory, and in particular about how the
science of complexity might be
useful to us as parish leaders.
Science is wonderful and this field is very interesting, but if we're going to get any presently
useful information from the specific field
of geological dating, it's much, much more recent stuff like climate evidence.
I can firmly say I am not at odds with
science - legitimate,
useful, and possessed
of compassion for all living beings.
Science and religion will be hopeful,
useful, and life - giving only if we learn to read them with new humility — as tales, as limited human renderings
of the Truth.
Interesting discussion — Totally agree about the «punching above their weight» problem with the current spate
of «popular» atheists and junk writers, as well as the «Hollywood» treatment
of Pullman, but you don't need to wade through Pullman's trilogy to get a
useful insight into institutionalism vs genuine spirituality — just pick up the excellent «The Dragon in the Sea» by Dune author Frank Herbert or «The Moon is a Harsh Mistress» by Robert Heinlien — great works from the Golden Age
of Science Fiction literature.
On the contrary, most
of the discussion sponsored by the Templeton Foundation assumes the mutual autonomy
of the
sciences and theology and that mutual respect is the prerequisite for
useful conversation.
The history
of science provides many examples
of this combination
of analogy and innovation in the creation
of models which were
useful in generating theories.4 The «Bohr model»
of the atom, in which «planetary» electrons revolve in orbits around a central nucleus, resembles the solar system in certain
of its dynamical properties; but the key assumption
of quantum jumps between orbits had no classical parallel at all.
You can find many
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Science - Backed Health Benefits
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I'm hoping
Science Sparks will be a useful resource for teachers, home educators and anyone who just wants to investigate the wonderful world of science with their ch
Science Sparks will be a
useful resource for teachers, home educators and anyone who just wants to investigate the wonderful world
of science with their ch
science with their children.
If we would only fund «
useful» things, then a good 50 %
of all
science would be completely de-funded.
It distills the most
useful information about the art and
science of parenting into bite - sized summaries with real examples
of what to say and how to say it.