Sentences with phrase «scientific culture of a country»

«This is an amazing opportunity to change the scientific culture of a country and connect the community closely... to the world of science and technology,» he adds.

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Unfortunately, a whole culture has arisen in this country that denies basic scientific facts at the behest of misguided religious and political groups for both idealogical and economic reasons.

Former Washington Post Beijing bureau chief, Philip Pan, author of Out of Mao's Shadow: The Struggle for the Soul of a New China, discusses the science, technology, environment and culture of China with Scientific American's David Biello, who recently spent almost a month reporting from the country.

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.»

We need more scientific idols that exemplify that there are no borders in science, neither between countries nor between cultures or schools of thoughts.

His idea was to create a new way of stimulating scientific innovation in Spain such that it steered clear of the civil servant culture that plagued the country.

The countries in question undertake to improve fisheries governance in the region by upgrading data collection and scientific evaluation, establishing an ecosystem - based fisheries management framework and developing a culture of compliance to combat illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing.

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.