Sentences with phrase «purpose than science»

Not exact matches

Tanking is obviously an inexact science, and has much more to do with lineup construction and the allocation of playing time than anything else — players are professional athletes, and convincing them to lose on purpose to bring younger, cheaper new talent to their franchise isn't exactly a great sell.

(Barron's) • In Search of the Perfect Recession Indicator (Philosophical Economics) • A Fireside Chat With Charlie Munger (MoneyBeat) • Complexity theory and financial regulation (Science) • Five Pieces of Conventional Wisdom That Make Smart Investors Look Dumb (CFA Institute) • This Lawyer Is Hollywood's Complete Divorce Solution (Bloomberg) • Curiosity update, sols 1218 - 1249: Digging in the sand at Mar's Bagnold Dunes (Planetary Society) • The Plot to Take Down a Fox News Analyst (NYT) • Ask the aged: Who better to answer questions about the purpose of life than someone who has been living theirs for a long time?

Each chapter discusses an aspect of the one theme that the central purpose of all education — whether in homes, schools, churches, business organizations, community agencies, or the mass media, and whatever the area of learning, whether science, art, health, or international relations — should be the transformation of persons from the life of self - centered desire to that of devoted service of the excellent, and at the same time the creation of a democratic commonwealth established in justice and fraternal regard rather than in expediency.

There was general agreement that Whitehead's earlier books, up to and including Science and the Modern World of 1926, would be likely to be more fruitful for this purpose than the later Whitehead of Process and Reality.

AAAS presented Kokabee with the 2014 Scientific Freedom and Responsibility Award in absentia «in recognition of his willingness to endure imprisonment rather than apply his scientific expertise for destructive purposes and for his efforts to provide hope and education to fellow prisoners,» said Alan Leshner, then AAAS CEO and executive publisher of Science in a letter to Ayatollah Khamenei requesting Kokabee's release.

If you could obtain a high - resolution map of all possible combinations of reaction conditions and their corresponding outcomes, the development of such reactions for specific purposes like diagnostic tests would be quicker than it is today,» explains Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) researcher Yannick Rondelez at the Institute of Industrial Science (IIS).

«Scholarships give our students the gift of freedom: to make career choices based on purpose and passion, rather than the price of education; to use time to study, explore science, and volunteer to help others, rather than working to make ends meet; and to succeed because someone who never met them saw enough potential to invest in their dreams,» said Catherine Lucey, MD, vice dean for education at UCSF's School of Medicine.

Linking practical work to theoretical concepts is a problem for many science teachers, partly because we have a different purpose for teaching experimental work, than our students have for doing it.

Beatty, who has been using and studying CRS products for more than a decade, acknowledges that the language and purpose of the question cycle, which he says is «to form habits of mind and find the limits of knowledge,» sound more ivory tower than AP Bio, but he contrasts the current norm — the quick and shallow recall of facts required of American high school science and math students — with his larger objective: renouncing the myth of coverage, the idea that what a teacher covers in class matters.

She was created for a purpose so revolutionary, someone was willing to kill for it.Seventeen - year - old Lexi Matthews keeps two secrets from her elite boarding school classmates she s the daughter of a famous and controversial geneticist, and she can influence people s thoughts.But after new student Jack DeWeese heals her broken arm with an anything - but - simple touch, he forces Lexi to face a new reality her abilities reach much further than speaking to the minds of others.After Lexi s father goes missing and she receives threatening emails, she can t decide whether to fall into Jack s arms or run and hide.As Lexi seeks answers to what she and Jack are, she discovers a truth more unsettling than anything her science books can teach.

A higher education research facility that receives public money or a facility that provides research in collaboration with a higher education facility that confines dogs or cats for science, education, or research purposes and plans on euthanizing a dog or cat for other than science, education, or research purposes must first offer the dog or cat to an animal rescue organization.

[45], [46], [47], [48] According to Watts» announcement of the OAS: «The purpose of The OAS is to provide a paperless and entirely online professional organization that will represent individuals who have been unrepresented by existing professional organizations that have become more activist than science based in their outlook.

Thus (for example) goals to enhance economic growth and reduce poverty should sit alongside environmental considerations in any research funding strategy, and as I've noted emphasis should be given to reducing the uncertainty rather than simply projecting the extremes of it forward for little useful purpose (a high volume of current research in climate science).

If this was an issue of science for the purpose of advancement of our understanding, the question would be is the value of the net effect from the combination of geothermal heat transfer and permanent energy uptake 3, 6.5, or 18.05 Watts / m ^ 2; but as this entire issue is nothing more than a politically motivated fabrication the only question of concern seems to be who said what about whom and were they justified in doing so.

It seems to me that the shortcomings of climate science today reside not in the quality of its data, which is already close to as good as it's going to get with our present resources, at least for the purposes of immediate advances in climate science, but rather in its inability to answer the following questions with anything better than consensual guesswork.

This blog is in danger of becoming another contrarian talking shop, where so called «sceptics» reinforce each others entrenched views and continue to demean the scientists rather than challenge the science with more science, which is the rightful purpose of scepticism.

The Skeptical Science page is a disappointment to me because while presenting a warmist's view on issues with a lot of information it is obviously biased and has a clear purpose of influencing rather than informing.

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