Sentences with phrase «science luminaries»

It is interesting to trace the disciples of the Ehrlichs, who include climate science luminaries like the late Steven Schneider and the ever present Michael Mann.

The 2002 NAS report — Abrupt Climate Change — inevitable surprises — was written by a committee of climate science luminaries.

In July these finalists will come to Google's headquarters in Mountain View, Calif., to present their projects to an international panel of finalist judges, including science luminaries, technology innovators and Nobel laureates.

The world's largest general scientific conference offers technical sessions for registrants, featuring leading science luminaries, as well as free public lectures and hands - on fun for children.

HIGH - DEMAND BACKSTORY: Best - selling popular - science luminary Sobel is a reader magnet, and her latest will get an extra lift as it rides the wave of Hidden Figures and its movie incarnation.

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In an airy room lined with antique bookcases, the sounds of Cuba's vintage motor vehicles rumbling through the open windows, Foreign Secretary and Executive Director Sergio Jorge Pastrana began the meeting by introducing the visitors to some of the luminaries in the history of Cuban science.

That's the finding of a pair of related reports released yesterday by an international group of climate science and policy luminaries who warned that the window is closing to avert dangerous warming.

Basic science is dominated by some particularly luminous luminaries.

BRUSSELS — The headquarters of science academies often are ornate structures and their annual meetings grand affairs involving hundreds of luminaries.

Similarly, the entry for vaccinia, and even an essay on virology (one of 124 «windows» reviews by luminaries in their fields), mention smallpox without saying that it has been eradicated — one of the greatest achievements of medical science.

On August 22 — what would have been the 92nd birthday of science fiction luminary Ray Bradbury — we dubbed the site Bradbury Landing.

Much in the spirit of the Fraser Institute's damp squib we reported on last year, S. Fred Singer and his merry band of contrarian luminaries (financed by the notorious «Heartland Institute» we've commented on previously) served up a similarly dishonest «assessment» of the science of climate change earlier this year in the form of what they call the «NIPCC» report (the «N» presumably standing for «not the» or «nonsense»).

: Science Fiction, the 1950s and Us which features luminaries such as Steven Spielberg, James Cameron and Ridley Scott as talking heads.

This enlightening collection of essays by leading luminaries in fields ranging from psychology to political science was edited by Dinesh Sharma, Associate Research Professor at the Institute for Global Cultural Studies, SUNY Binghamton.

Veteran journalist Claudia Kalb asks us to do just that in Andy Warhol Was a Hoarder, a collection of 12 seemingly disparate stories of luminaries in architecture, science, politics and more.

As the first science fiction magazine on the market, Amazing Stories served as a proving ground for many writers who would later become luminaries in the...

His guests have included luminaries of the dismal science such as Robert Shiller, as well as popular authors like William Bernstein.

Inspired by direct experiences and observations of her surroundings as well as the films, plays, and novels of such luminaries as Alfred Hitchcock, John Cassavetes, Roman Polanski, Jack Smith, Jorge Luis Borges, Tennessee Williams, and Samuel Beckett and mainstays of popular culture like soap operas and science fiction, her work is carefully scripted and produced while maintaining an immediate sense of spontaneity and unpredictability.

He's in New York for the World Science Festival, along with a large flock of Nobel laureates and other luminaries.

As far as I can tell, this enormous undertaking — 24 hours of broadcast - quality television production for the Web, featuring luminaries from science and other realms — has had zero effect.

I had a jarring moment Wednesday night as I talked with some of the science, math and engineering luminaries attending the World Science Festival celebration of the achievements of the physicist Stephen Hscience, math and engineering luminaries attending the World Science Festival celebration of the achievements of the physicist Stephen HScience Festival celebration of the achievements of the physicist Stephen Hawking.

Bethell's source is the «Galilean electrodynamics of rightwing crank physicist Petr Beckman, commemorated in the Petr Beckman award, which has been accepted by a string of the scientific luminaries of the climate science denial movement such as Fred Singer, Sallie Baliunas and Willie Soon.

The main one is a statewide series of Chautauqua - like educational presentations by well - known science and economics luminaries like James Hansen, Stephen Chu, David Suzuki, Robert Reich, Joseph Stieglitz, Paul Volker, and Hank Paulson that leads from September up through the election.

AGU, APS, Royal Society (UK), AAAS (NRC and Science),... The list of fallen former luminaries seems endless.