Sentences with phrase «science wonk»

Unlike most SkS authors, I am not a climate science wonk and therefore am not able to respond to your question.

They wanted these West Point alums, these Motorola vets, these IBM management science wonks to establish order over what was a vibrant, kwan - like environment... not to mention back then, pre-PC-price wars, raking in cash for Dell while skewering its competition was easier and more palpably rewarding than it is today.

Not exact matches

At least a few people think a lasting boost in the regular appropriations for some science agencies is a real possibility, according to a well - informed Washington observer we'll call Polly C. Wonk.

Warner is all for transparency, but being a chemist himself, he knows how his colleagues think, and he's concerned that if green chemistry becomes mandatory, industrial chemists will misunderstand it, writing it off as a policy - wonk proposal when in fact it is solid science, built on the core principles of traditional chemistry.

I want to point out that when Nancy says «science» and wonks and researchers say «science» they are not talking about the same thing.

When wonks say science they are often proposing a word problem something like this: Teaching Practice A yields student success 88 % of the time.

Visit the foundation's Weekly Wonk blog for answers from Sharon E. Burke, an international and energy security analyst, Steve LeVine of Quartz, Daniel Sarewitz, professor of science and society at Arizona State University, and Russell Gold, senior energy reporter at the Wall Street Journal and author of «The Boom: How Fracking Ignited the American Energy Revolution and Changed the World.»

I would suggest that, as a policy wonk, you're not as much interested in the pure findings of science as you are in how those findings can be used to drive policy.

And like so many experts in so many other science fields, the IPCC climate wonks were wrong, spectacularly.

Lomborg and Pielke are policy wonks (almost wrote won'ts) who make elementary errors on the science to defend their policy goals.

Some are darlings, some just honest people doing an honest job, and some are political wonks who «administer» science in their field.

Romney's position on climate change science has shifted around as Brad Plumer documents on the Wonk Blog: