Sentences with phrase «scientific culture make»

Aspects of China's scientific culture make many «first - rate academics reluctant to return home to participate in the country's expected rise to superpower status.»

A specialized, urban - scientific culture makes such combinations hard to believe in.

Not exact matches

This is a far cry from liberal theology's effort to adapt Christianity to the modern world and make sense of culture on terms relevant to a rather confident secular and scientific age.

Indeed, most cultures in human history have generated no such marvel as the modern scientific movement, and even in our own culture, scientifically oriented as it is supposed to be, most people accept the benefits of technology and use the vocabulary of science but do not in fact choose to abide by the disciplines that alone make scientific productivity possible.

Immersed as we are in gadgetry, living a lifestyle which, in its very making, is explicable by scientific laws, our culture feels an inherent uneasiness in discussing things that can't be explained in this way.

Nevertheless, recent developments in the scientific culture, especially as we see them reported in books like James Gleick's Chaos: Making a New Science, suggest that Snow's greatest mistake was his failure to take into account the extent to which the literature of science is literature itself, which has all along anticipated much of what science ultimately spells out in its own terms — terms that have often enough seemed invidious to literature.

So after the fashion, the post-structuralists have answered Snow's complaint about the rift between the two cultures by demonstrating a way to make the study of literature just as scientific as the study of nuclear physics.

Theologically, they must accommodate to modernity by making Christian proclamation compatible with a scientific worldview so that faith can be acceptable to its «cultured despisers.»

You know that a scientific idea has penetrated popular culture when people start making jokes about it.

New research to be published January 13 in the journal Scientific Reports shows that some bacterial cultures adopt an all - for - one / one - for - all strategy that would make a socialist proud in preparing for the possibility of an antibiotic onslaught.

He likes nothing better than surfing journals the likes of Cereal Chemistry, Poultry Science, and The Bulletin of the Japanese Society of Scientific Fisheries.In fact, he's made a career of turning huge amounts of arcane food science, centuries of history and culture, and wonderfully oddball,just - for - the - heck - of - it facts into a good read for curious cooks and eaters.

The aim, according to Antonio Ruberti, the commissioner for research, «is to make European citizens and decision - makers more aware of the major issues of scientific culture and scientific education».

The Scientist and Noreen's Dream: The Meeting that Changed the Culture of How Scientific Progress Is Made Today

When: November 7th Why: It's actually pretty surprising that it's taken this long for someone to make a proper biopic about Stephen Hawking (not counting the 2004 TV movie starring Benedict Cumberbatch, of course), especially considering his prominence not only in the scientific world, but pop culture as well.

Leafing through it, you can examine close - up color photographs and scientific descriptions of species ranging from sponges to herons, compare maps by early explorers to those made with the latest Geographic Information Systems (GIS) technology, or reflect on the impact of military and industrial use of the bay on the local environment and culture.

But what makes Darwin's Ghosts amazing is she goes even further to investigate how the developing scientific thinking on the origins of life influenced the arts and popular culture.

«It takes time for the culture to be performed and come back to the veterinarian, therefore an antibiotic choice has to be made prior to all the scientific information,» she said.

It is comprised of artworks (artificiala)-- things like wooden masks, necklaces made from crocodile teeth; scientific instruments (scientifica)-- items used in hospitals and clinics at the time; and objects from foreign cultures (exotica).

350limit did not say to resort to magic rather than science, only that the authors have been blinded by the latter... I would refine that to refer to certain elements of scientific culture that tend toward extreme conservatism in making pronouncements or urging action — this isn't science, it's sociology, and the comments about «influencing policy» and «a particular political outcome» are also not science, or scientific.

The reasons for that are many: the timid language of scientific probabilities, which the climatologist James Hansen once called «scientific reticence» in a paper chastising scientists for editing their own observations so conscientiously that they failed to communicate how dire the threat really was; the fact that the country is dominated by a group of technocrats who believe any problem can be solved and an opposing culture that doesn't even see warming as a problem worth addressing; the way that climate denialism has made scientists even more cautious in offering speculative warnings; the simple speed of change and, also, its slowness, such that we are only seeing effects now of warming from decades past; our uncertainty about uncertainty, which the climate writer Naomi Oreskes in particular has suggested stops us from preparing as though anything worse than a median outcome were even possible; the way we assume climate change will hit hardest elsewhere, not everywhere; the smallness (two degrees) and largeness (1.8 trillion tons) and abstractness (400 parts per million) of the numbers; the discomfort of considering a problem that is very difficult, if not impossible, to solve; the altogether incomprehensible scale of that problem, which amounts to the prospect of our own annihilation; simple fear.