Sentences with phrase «problems in the world of science»

He surmises that the root cause of the brain drain that is afflicting many countries stems from «structural problems in the world of science.»

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It was February 2013, and Rose was waiting for Catherine McGeogh, an Amherst University professor in computer science, to run the third of a series of trials to prove that his company's latest computer model, the D - Wave Two, could solve some of the world's most fiendish computational problems.

In a larger context, the conflict between General Fusion's vision and the criticism it generates illustrates the problem of the orthodox and the heretical in the science world, says TurchIn a larger context, the conflict between General Fusion's vision and the criticism it generates illustrates the problem of the orthodox and the heretical in the science world, says Turchin the science world, says Turchi.

I will have to live my whole life surrounded by a world filled with mental midgets who have fooled themselves that faith and belief in deities is the answer instead of using their minds to work out problems, study science and figure out how we leave this planet when it becomes inhabitable in 4 billion years.

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.

Rather, the problem is to get them to reject irrational and supernatural explanations of the world, the demons that exist only in their imaginations, and to accept a social and intellectual apparatus, Science, as the only begetter of truth.»

Wrestle as we may with the problem of pain in God's world, there is still a meaning in the refrain of that story, «And God saw that it was good,» which neither philosophy nor science can set aside.

This does not solve the Christian's problem of attaining an integrated world view, for the religion that arises in contemporary science may be in tension with aspects of Christian belief.

The problem is to get [people] to reject irrational and supernatural explanations of the world, the demons that exist only in their imaginations, and to accept a social and intellectual apparatus, Science, as the only begetter of truth.

Richard Lewontin, a Harvard geneticist: «The problem is to get [people] to reject irrational and supernatural explanations of the world, the demons that exist only in their imaginations, and to accept a social and intellectual apparatus, Science, as the only begetter of truth.»

He chaired the World Council Conference on Faith, Science, and the Future (at MIT in 1979) and is the author of several books, including The Human Presence: An Orthodox View of Nature, in which he addresses environmental problems from an Orthodox perspective.

Four recent major studies of human problems support a measure of optimism in human affairs: Arnold Toynbee's A Study of History; Quincy Wright's Study of War; Gunnar Myrdal's study of color caste in America, entitled An American Dilemma; and the essays edited by the cultural anthropologist, Ralph Linton, entitled The Science of Man in the World Crisis.

Another is the belief by experts and technocrats that all the problems of the world will be solved by science and technology; we are still in the grip of the modern worldview.

10 See the very clear explication in Ernest Nagel, The Structure of Science: Problems in the Logic of Scientific Explanation (New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc, 1961), pp. 207 - 09.

In other words, the problem of science and religion is part of the deeper and more pervasive question whether the world in its totality can be made into a clear object to be mastered by our mindIn other words, the problem of science and religion is part of the deeper and more pervasive question whether the world in its totality can be made into a clear object to be mastered by our mindin its totality can be made into a clear object to be mastered by our minds.

And indeed, it was in the vague, groping efforts of Whitehead in Concept of Nature, Science and the Modern World, and Religion in the Making, that Wieman found such exciting prospects for a whole new way to get at the problem of God through the joint efforts of science and reScience and the Modern World, and Religion in the Making, that Wieman found such exciting prospects for a whole new way to get at the problem of God through the joint efforts of science and rescience and religion.

It reminds me a little of the superficial and hackneyed rhetoric of the teenage atheist who thinks he's the first person in the world to discover the problem of evil, or the New Atheist saloon - bar bore: «Church is boring... Christians are bigots and hypocrites... science has disproved religion... The Bible contradicts itself... why can't we just love Jesus and reject religion?»

As Whitehead's formulation of his program becomes plausible, his basic philosophical problem will become clear: Only a relativistic cosmology, in Whitehead's view, «brings the aesthetic, moral, and religious interests into relation with those concepts of the world which have their origin in natural science» (PR xii / vi).

It is impossible to prove by science either that the world is fundamentally deterministic or indeterministic, and so science provides no way tosolve the problem of God's action in the world.

The Conrad Foundation's Spirit of Innovation Challenge (SOIC) presents high school students with a very broad challenge: create an innovative product that provides solution to a real - world problem such that someone can pay for it, by applying principles in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM).

The problem is that science tells us otherwise: sensitive tests reveal that pretty much everything in the modern world — fresh fruit included — comes with a cocktail of chemical extras.

«Our solution of the Kirchhoff - Plateau problem brings beautiful mathematical results close to what happens in the physical world,» says Dr. Giulio Giusteri, coauthor of the paper which was recently published in the Journal of Nonlinear Science.

Most of the attacks, especially the most severe ones, occurred in zones of conflict or repressed states, but it would be wrong to believe that this problem doesn't concern the Western world, SAR's Executive Director Rob Quinn writes in an email to Science Careers.

«Climate change is arguably the largest collective - action problem the world has ever faced,» said lead author Nick Obradovich, a doctoral candidate in the Department of Political Science in UC San Diego's Division of Social Sciences.

Andrea Korte / AAAS Students in science, technology, mathematics, and engineering need to take an active role in shaping their coursework and exploring ways to address real - world problems, said the president of the AAAS Pacific...

It was a place «where he could contact and invite all the best researchers of the world to discuss all the problems and ideas all around hominization,» Fullola Pericot writes in an e-mail to Science Careers.

The Centre for Interdisciplinary Science was set up in 2005 to develop new approaches to the teaching of undergraduate university science through real world problems, such as climate change, which do not fit into a single scientific discipline and require research across subject speciScience was set up in 2005 to develop new approaches to the teaching of undergraduate university science through real world problems, such as climate change, which do not fit into a single scientific discipline and require research across subject speciscience through real world problems, such as climate change, which do not fit into a single scientific discipline and require research across subject specialisms.

The «magical world» created by his father became for Dr. Lomvardas the entry point into the real world of science, where he would one day work with Nobel laureates Eric Kandel and Richard Axel and conduct research into the molecular mechanisms of olfactory receptors — «one of the most enigmatic and complex problems in biology.»

But this year, the three top winners of the 75th annual Intel Science Talent Search (STS) tackled head on the problems they saw in the world.

Recently I was invited to give a talk at the UNAI - START (United Nations Academic Impact — Science and Technology Accelerating Rapid Transformation) conference, on the role of nanotechnology in developing new solutions for energy, water, and health care — problems reaching crisis proportion in our world and requiring urgent action across all levels.

The laureates spoke with science writer Alan Brown about the joys of hard problems in science, and how AFM continues to change the way we see the world.

In 2014, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) built on a 62 - year tradition of translating basic science into technologies that ensure national security, address pressing real world problems and expand the boundaries of fundamental science.

In today's modern times of behavioral addictions, the sacred science of Kundalini Yoga and meditation brings solutions for the concerns and problems of our modern world.

New Recommendations from the National Sleep Foundation - The Atlantic January 2015 - Poor Sleep in Adolescence Predicts Future Problems, Study Says - Los Angeles Times January 2015 - How Sleep Keeps You Healthy, Helps You Heal - Discovery News September 2014 - Lack of Sleep Increases Risk of Failure in School Among Teens - Science World Report, from Sleep Medicine August 2014 - Sleep Woes in Old Age May Be Linked to Brain Cell Loss - Health magazine August 2014 — University of Chicago Study: Getting More Sleep Could Cut Junk Food Cravings in Half — CBS News August 2014 — University of Montreal Study Shows Learning Is Best Enhanced During Sleep - Jewish Business News February 2014 - Link Found between Sleep Duration and Depression - Psych Central February 2014 - Less Sleep, More Time Online, Raises Risk for Teen Depression — National Public Radio

The problem with the film isn't in its placement in the realm of science fiction films as much as its placement in the real world, where the plot necessitates a triple - jump for every leap in logic to get us from point A to Z. For instance, the film pushes forward the notion that scientists don't give any thought or research whatsoever to the ramifications of their inventions before unleashing them on the world at large.

That the most exciting bits of Black Panther have to do with world - building — the futuristic costuming, the urban design, the smooth assimilation of the technological into the everyday — point to another problem with the CGI - driven mass destruction template of science fiction: it doesn't account for the ways in which the cultural place of technology — and the resultant shape of our technophobia — has evolved over time.

Cesar Armendariz, director of community outreach for USC's health science campus, says former university president Steven Sample set the tone with his philosophy that faculty and staff didn't need to solve the problems and ills of the world, but they could make a difference in their backyard.

«What I am seeing now,» computer science teacher Carla Cruzan told Education World, «is that there is no getting around the problem of young children being placed in front of keyboards.

For nearly 15 years, the veteran science teacher has had students examine real - world problems as part of the environmental - studies curriculum at Silverado High School, in Las Vegas.

Tenth - grade world history students interview Chinese immigrants and record their stories; ninth - grade physical science students design and strength - test mock airplane wings; junior English students research, write, and illustrate children's nonfiction picture books; algebra students of all grades investigate a public - transit problem and propose solutions to city officials; sophomore geometry students build scale models of museums they've designed; students across the grades in an environmental - stewardship class raise public awareness of a polluted river — all are examples of academically challenging projects that also manage to engage the minds, hands, and hearts of most high school students across a wide range of abilities and interests.

This curriculum encourages learners to synthesize their knowledge of Language Arts, Social Studies, Mathematics, Science, Technology and Engineering through participation in a collaborative «real world problem solving» setting.

Using real - world data to solve real - world problems is a key component of quality performance assessment tasks, particularly in Math and Science.

Medical science and governments around the world scramble in an effort to solve the problem, but twenty - five years later there is no cure, and an entire generation grows up with a population of fewer than a thousand women.

References: CDC: World Rabies Day GARC: The Problem of Rabies Science Direct: Rabies Vaccine is Associated with Decreased All - cause Mortality in Dogs WHO: World Rabies Day

It would be nice if we lived in a world where, when faced with an environmental problem, reporters only have to discuss risks delineated by science and the range of societal responses.

I think it is over the heads of Myron Ebell's intended audience, however, and it may be necessary to write an overview — at high - school level — that explains the relative value of inductive and deductive methods in science, use of multi-compartment models in general, the sorts of problems they regularly entail (formulation, measurement, n - body calculation, brute - force computer simulation, experimental repetition, real - world validation, emergent properties, catastrophic regime - shift, assignment of probabilities, etc.) and how these are variously or provisionally overcome, according to the science you are practicing.

Keep in mind none of this prevents me from trying repeatedly to explain climate science, reveal efforts to distort climate findings, and lay out, in an unvarnished way, the real - world options for cutting greenhouse - gas emissions and the lack of effort under way to tackle the energy challenge underlying the climate problem.

1) The first point is mainly a values question (how to apportion limited resources in a world with current problems and looming risks), but also has some interpretation of science (that the risks from accumulating CO2 are not significant; see Point 2).

My sense about the climate emails that have been stolen and the information they have provided is that they have released a barrage of additional information which makes clear the robustness of the science, the multitude, the enormous multitude of different strands of evidence that support the urgency and the severity of the problem, that have been managed in multiple places around the world.

James J. Kay described Post-normal science as a process that recognizes the potential for gaps in knowledge and understanding that can not be resolved other than through revolutionary science, thereby arguing that (in between revolutions) one should not necessarily attempt to resolve or dismiss contradictory perspectives of the world (whether they are based on science or not), but instead incorporate multiple viewpoints into the same problem - solving process.