Sentences with phrase «past societies changed»

«New evidence from China and elsewhere show us that past societies changed environments far more than we've ever suspected,» said Kidder, the Edward S. and Tedi Macias Professor in Arts & Sciences and chair of anthropology at WUSTL.

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If the past two decades are any indication, the role of business in society has changed.

The future of bitcoin is uncertain, but with continuous positive gains over the past several years and an expanding interest in the development of blockchain, the technology is set to bring change to society in one way or another.

Dr. Lawler specifically reviewed how society has changed in the past half century.

Toby applies the prayer to the hopeful decline and eventual elimination of religion because of its obvious harmfulness to society: we can't change the harm religion has done in the past, so we must serenely move on; we must courageously overcome the dangerous influence of religion in our society; and we must know the difference between harm done and the harm that can be prevented from religion.

With so much profound change occurring, the sense arose among some European intellectuals that the differences between the new global society and the past few centuries is as great as that between the modern period and the medieval one.

«Despite the many changes that have taken place in American society and culture over the past 30 years, including new discoveries in biological and social science, there has been virtually no sustained change in Americans» views of the origin of the human species since 1982,» wrote Gallup's Frank Newport.

This past summer, the religious powers - to - be changed some of the wording in the bible to make it more applicable to today's society.

The question confronting us is how do societies get over the evils in their past and how do they change for the better?

This world of ours is a new world, in which the unity of knowledge, the nature of human communities, the order of society, the order of ideas, the very notions of society and culture have changed and will not return to what they have been in the past.

The state rather than addressing itself to the creation of civil society, has become largely a mediator of ethnic political equation; whereas what we really need is a dynamic re-interpretation of the past, taking seriously into consideration, the new elements of change.

«This world of ours is a new world,» wrote Robert Oppenheimer in 1963, «in which the unity of knowledge, the nature of human communities, the order of society, the order of ideas, the very notions of society and culture have changed and will not return to what they have been in the past» (Saturday Review of Literature, June 29, 1963, p. 11).

When Baby Boomer women had more sex than any generation in the past, it was a feminist revolution, changing the whole fabric of society.

In other words, our society's eating patterns have changed so dramatically in the past three or four decades that I just can't view any one treat given to my children in a vacuum anymore, as much as I'd like to.

«We're past the point where we can seriously debate whether climate change is real» Do you mean as a society, separated from the scientific facts?

The ESRC's Science in Society Programme that looks to explore the rapidly changing relations between science and the wider society is holding its final event, and will be discussing that science in society issues that have arisen over the past five years of the proSociety Programme that looks to explore the rapidly changing relations between science and the wider society is holding its final event, and will be discussing that science in society issues that have arisen over the past five years of the prosociety is holding its final event, and will be discussing that science in society issues that have arisen over the past five years of the prosociety issues that have arisen over the past five years of the programme.

Adds Andrew Rasiej, founder of Personal Democracy Forum, an online hub of how politics and technology intersect: «Obama's success online is as much about how our society has changed, how our media ecology has changed, just in the past four years.»

As society faces more conflict over natural disasters, natural resource use and climate change, scientists increasingly find themselves in the spotlight, forced to communicate findings in ways they haven't in the past.

Washington State University archaeologists are at the helm of new research using sophisticated computer technology to learn how past societies responded to climate change.

According to Manning, this research not only alters the perception of climatic changes on various scales, from short - term shocks to slower - moving, long - term changes, but it is also revolutionizing the understanding of human societies and how the forces of nature shaped them in the past.

The findings, published in the journal Nature Communications, show that integrating evidence from historical writings with paleoclimate data can advance both our understanding of how the climate system functions, and how climatic changes impacted past human societies.

A team of researchers from the University of Eastern Finland and the Finnish Meteorological Society found that over the past 166 years, the country's average monthly temperatures have increased by more than 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit), a 0.14 C change per decade.

The adoption of this new material coincided with other changes in past societies often including differing agricultural practices, religious beliefs and artistic styles.

Two speakers from the Geological Society conference «Past Carbon Isotopic Events and Future Ecologies» came to the SMC to discuss climate clues from the geological record and what they can tell us about present and future changes to the climate.

Wallace S. Broecker: Preface 1: Jean - Pierre Gattuso and Lina Hansson: Ocean Acidification: Background and History 2: Richard E. Zeebe and Andy Ridgwell: Past Changes of Ocean Carbonate Chemistry 3: James C. Orr: Recent and Future Changes in Ocean Carbonate Chemistry 4: Andrew H. Knoll and Woodward W. Fischer: Skeletons and Ocean Chemistry: The Long View 5: Markus G. Weinbauer, Xavier Mari, and Jean - Pierre Gattuso: Effect of Ocean Acidification on the Diversity and Activity of Heterotrophic Marine Microorganisms 6: Ulf Riebesell and Philippe D. Tortell: Effects of Ocean Acidification on Pelagic Organisms and Ecosystems 7: Andreas J. Andersson, Fred T. Mackenzie, and Jean - Pierre Gattuso: Effects of Ocean Acidification on Benthic Processes, Organisms, and Ecosystems 8: Hans - Otto Pörtner, Magda Gutowska, Atsushi Ishimatsu, Magnus Lucassen, Frank Melzner, and Brad Seibel: Effects of Ocean Acidification on Nektonic Organisms 9: Stephen Widdicombe, John I. Spicer, and Vassilis Kitidis: Effects of Ocean Acidification on Sediment Fauna 10: James P. Barry, Stephen Widdicombe, and Jason M. Hall - Spencer: Effects of Ocean Acidification on Marine Biodiversity and Ecosystem Function 11: Frances Hopkins, Philip Nightingale, and Peter Liss: Effects of Ocean Acidification on the Marine Source of Atmospherically - Active Trace Gases 12: Marion Gehlen, Nicolas Gruber, Reidun Gangstø, Laurent Bopp, and Andreas Oschlies: Biogeochemical Consequences of Ocean Acidification and Feedback to the Earth System 13: Carol Turley and Kelvin Boot: The Ocean Acidification Challenges Facing Science and Society 14: Fortunat Joos, Thomas L. Frölicher, Marco Steinacher, and Gian - Kasper Plattner: Impact of Climate Change Mitigation on Ocean Acidification Projections 15: Jean - Pierre Gattuso, Jelle Bijma, Marion Gehlen, Ulf Riebesell, and Carol Turley: Ocean Acidification: Knowns, Unknowns, and Perspectives Index

10:45 - 11:00 The impact of environmental change on past human societies in the Central Peloponnese (Greece) Ingmar Unkel, Helmut Brückner, Walter Dörfler, Christian Heymann, Oliver Nelle, Arndt Schimmelmann, HelenZagana

What frustrates me though, as a girl, is that even though society's attitude to sex has changed so much in the past two or three years alone, the attitude to women and sex hasn't changed at all.

Life here began in Old Town, with its medieval roots; society was very different back when this part of town was still fresh faced and spry, though some of the old inns still stand if you feel like sampling a date from the heady and seductive Dark Ages... Then take a stroll through New Town, dripping in Georgian decadence; here, you will be reminded that once upon a time the dating scene was a raucous, dangerous place, full of lust and lewdness... Okay, perhaps not all that much has changed, but the point we are trying to make is that Edinburgh's dating scene has shifted across the centuries to become what it is today — fairly sedate compared with the city's tumultuous past, but no less magical or intoxicating.

Society in the past has tended to look down on younger men dating rich women but times are changing and more and more things are becoming acceptable.

The face of our society has changed within past decades.

This story raises questions about the changes that have occurred in society over the past century and the direction that life will take in the next that will provide fodder for classroom discussion.

Even though the situation might have slightly changed within the past decennia with the introduction of peace education, sustainable economics, holistic learning and dynamic system modeling within education of economics and business, nevertheless, the concept of the self - made individual man or woman who benefits society by doing what's good for him or her is still being emphasized.

Yet it tells a story about a radical change in American society in the past 50 years that seems to have passed notice, whether popular or scholarly.

We'll check out the stories of the artists, the music, and their lyrics while wrestling with important themes such as society and the individual, membership in democracy, the legacies of the past, and those moments when people choose to change their worlds.

To blame them for all the ills of our society, for all the demographic changes of the past generation, for all the burdens imposed by courts and legislatures, is wrong.

How times have changed... but I'm old enough to have a true sense of all that has evolved over the past 60 years for our society, and particularly, women.

The worldwide movement to embed financial education into schools has gained impetus due to some major changes in society over the past decade, such as the Global Financial Crisis, an increase in youth debt (e.g. mobile phone debt) and research linking financial problems with low quality of life.

Complaints about cruelty to animals and dog fighting have dropped significantly during the past year, and Lawrence Humane Society officials credit changes made to city ordinances.

Wilmingon, DE (April 17, 2017)-- While the hotbeds of heartworm disease haven't changed dramatically in the past three years, the incidence numbers reported by participants in the 2016 American Heartworm Society (AHS) Incidence Survey indicate that the average number of positive cases per veterinary clinic has been inching upwards.

Relatively limited geographically but deeply rooted in civil society, the Resistance prefigured a democracy yet to come, provided a model for a regime change supported from below, and still gives us a way to grapple with our tragic past.

«I am particularly inspired with the work of past visionaries, be they conceptual artists, utopian urban planners, engineers effecting behavior or architects who sought to change society through their designs.

Because personal and collective memories are so inextricably intertwined with photographs — the result of the medium's progressive saturation of everyday life for the past century and a half — this revolutionary change in the production and dissemination of photographic images is altering society's relationship to memory.

In a follow up to the gallery's critically acclaimed group show «UPRISE / ANGRY WOMEN,» which opened during the week of the 2017 presidential inauguration, exhibition ONE YEAR OF RESISTANCE features artwork across all mediums addressing the issues our society has faced since the election such as immigration rights, women's rights, transgender rights, health care, climate change, white supremacy, gender equality, gun control, sexual harassment, as well as countless other issues which have given rise to mass protest throughout the United States and abroad over the past year.

In a follow up to the gallery's critically acclaimed group show «Uprise / Angry Women,» which opened during the week of the 2017 presidential inauguration, exhibition One Year Of Resistance features artwork across all mediums addressing the issues our society has faced since the election such as immigration rights, women's rights, transgender rights, health care, climate change, white supremacy, gender equality, gun control, sexual harassment, as well as countless other issues which have given rise to mass protest throughout the United States and abroad over the past year.

From the poodle skirts and New Look dresses of the Fifties to the bell - bottoms and afros of the drug - fueled Seventies and the padded shoulders and fingerless gloves of the Material - Girl Eighties, the past has dutifully furnished fashion with recognizable signifiers that reflected changes in society and were driven by major cultural undercurrents of their time.

As soon as his paper was published (1861) in the Proceedings of the Royal Society, he put out a press release for the London newspapers explaining that this result implied that all past climate changes were now understood and all future climate changes could be predicted simply from a knowledge of the concentrations of these «greenhouse» gases...

We do, however, have quite a few examples of past societies being thoroughly undone by regional climate change or ecological disruption (often human - induced), so we know to a certainty that that is a possible outcome.

Understanding past climate changes are of course also very interesting — they provide test cases for climate models and can have profound implications for the history of human society.

Scientific evidence indicates that the global climate is moving outside the bounds of past experience and can be expected to put new stresses on societies around the world, prompting examination of a variety of plausible scenarios through which climate change might pose or alter security risks for the United States.

Two studies published in the past week have troubling implications for the effects hurricanes have on society because of climate change, now and in the future.