Sentences with phrase «scientific language about»

«It's really vital that everyone be on the same page in terms of scientific language about this group,» Bird said.

Philosophers believed that this was true not only with respect to language about dogs but also with respect to scientific language about atoms and molecules.

The problem is that of language - games, in which mythological language is contradicted by scientific language about the same world.

Not exact matches

Scientific language («The temperature was -5 degrees Fahrenheit») seeks language that has a certain kind of precision lacking in our ordinary speech — a precision that we can quantify and test, that can be used to settle disputes about how cold it actually is.

But whereas in translating scientific prose the aim is simply to reproduce with complete accuracy the author's statements, in translating «poetic» language the primary aim is not just to reproduce statements about reality but, as far as may be, to make the same communication of reality — which will mean trying to reproduce something of the author's «tone of voice», something of the mood and colour of tie original.

The mistake arises when we take language which is deeply contextual, that is confessional, and in the case of Paul probably also liturgical, and turn it into objective assertions of a quasi scientific form that give us information about the eternal fate of non-Christians.

«Too often debates about AV are less like political arguments, and more like scientific discussions, where people get lost in a language of proportionality and preferences, probabilities and possibilities.

She has been awarded prizes for her writing about the scientific labor force, biomedical engineering, cancer genetics, depression, women's health, electronic medical records, apes that use sign language, and other topics by IEEE - USA, the American Association of University Professors, the American Psychological Association, the American Society of Journalists and Authors, Radcliffe College, and other organizations.

Scientific American asks an expert about the Trump administration's latest CDC language guidance

The proof is encompassed in four scientific articles that together fill about 500 pages, according to writer Marlene Weiss, who entered a mathematical realm where the language is so strange that hardly anybody but Mochizuki himself can find their way.

Alda: Yeah, I had been reading Scientific American I guess for almost about 50 years — pretty much every issue and pretty much every article — and I went from not having any idea what I was reading to getting a little bit more of a sense of a language; and it was to me like learning a new language.

«About one sixth of all people in the U.S. birthplace of Scientific American speak Spanish as a first or second language, and globally, it is spoken by more than 500 million,» says Scientific American editor in chief Mariette DiChristina.

Today Scientific American launches ScientificAmerican.com/espanol, which will provide Spanish - language online readers with authoritative insights and news about the latest developments that matter in science, technology and biomedicine.

A scientific disagreement — In an 1881 neuroanatomy atlas, Wernicke, a well - known anatomist who in 1874 discovered «Wernicke's area,» which is essential for language, wrote about a fiber pathway in a monkey brain he was examining.

The results, while not as deliberate and citation - heavy as one would expect in a scientific article, are presented in appropriate «uncertainty» language and include information about the statistics behind each finding.

When ppl complain about the conditional language in discussions re scientific literature, it shows that they do not understand the conditional nature of science.

Suddenly, average George becomes curious George, spending all his time reading books, creating ingenious scientific gadgets, and learning new languages in about the time it takes you and me to eat breakfast.

For example, science and English language arts teachers may have students read multiple texts about a scientific issue that is relevant to their lives or community, then ask them to evaluate the evidence and reasoning of the various texts in a collaborative discussion and write a persuasive essay in which they take a stance on the issue.

Sandwiched among the dramatic vignettes of the story, Greenwood pauses to pepper the book with historical sidebars about the «secret code» language used by those who helped shuttle slaves north to safety; a biographical sketch of Harriet Tubman, known as «Moses» to those along the route; a brief history of storytelling among southern slaves; a scientific explanation for the «swamp ghosts» many slaves encountered along their escape routes; an inside look at some of the methods used to hide slaves from capture; and much, much more.

«The beauty of the weather balloon project is that it's something captivating that provides many points of entry,» says Smith, «whether you're a student in an engineering class working on how to build a structure that's going to survive a fall from several thousand meters, or if you're in a science classroom trying to ask good scientific inquiry questions that could be tested, or if you're in language arts and you want to write a creative piece about what the balloon's journey might be.»

During one of their grade - level meetings, the language arts teachers brainstormed a way to connect the journey of the balloon to both creative and scientific writing by having their students write about that single experience from different perspectives.

The recent scientific consensus about the role of unspoken shared knowledge in the language transaction has implications for educational policy that American educators have not yet been willing to draw.

And about the highly efficient microbes that can turn a nice plateful of pasta into fat... Dunn's wry wit and his ability to relate potentially dry, if not downright boring scientific material in entertaining, non-clinical language makes me wish I could audit a few of his classes.

Pielke's divisive language about the ingenuous connection between greenhouse gas policy and human disease prevention imposes barriers between scientific disciplines when just the opposite is needed.

Both reviewers asked the author for more clarity and better presentation, style and language; none of them raised any concern about the scientific content of the manuscript.

These deviations from the traditional scientific process are brought about by a combination of strategies and tactics: professionalization of climate scientists, [39] the use of artificially constructed scientific consensus, [40] a wide range of rhetorical devices, [41] intimidating language, [42] «bullying» strategies, [43] political attacks, [44] and even civil and criminal litigation.

Never mind the ambiguity of May's choice of language, what is scientific about his argument?

GCM's can't make predictions about any of those aspects of climate, and to suggest otherwise is an abuse of «predict» as scientific language.

But that's I think because the public is uninformed about specifics, and even when an equally carefully worded phrase is used, where 98 % of scientists know it's not consensus, the same 50/50 split among the public will come up, and all that means is they don't know scientific language and the specifics of the issue well and otherwise it says a lot less than you might think at first glance it says.

«In engaging, easy - to - understand language, Climate Change Denial tells us all we need to know about global warming denial, explaining why, even though the scientific evidence is irrefutable, denial continues to prosper.

Kyoto has permitted different groups to tell different stories about themselves to themselves and to others, often in superficially scientific language.

My biggest concern about the climate report is that it presents a number of speculative, and sometimes incomplete, conclusions embedded in language that gives them more scientific heft than they deserve.

On p. 233 of Why We disagree About Climate Change, in Box 7.1, I make the statement «Risbey goes on to accuse those who do not adopt such urgent language in their descriptions of the science as failing in their civic duty in inform the public, a «scientific reticence» which falls short of the standards of impartial communication».

(16 July) On p. 233 of Why We disagree About Climate Change, in Box 7.1, I make the statement «Risbey goes on to accuse those who do not adopt such urgent language in their descriptions of the science as failing in their civic duty in inform the public, a «scientific reticence» which falls short of the -LSB-...]

In announcing the change, President Obama emphasized the need to «make scientific decisions based on facts, not ideology,» yet the new policy, as well as the language that the president used to explain it, underscores that the stem cell debate is in important ways not about scientific facts at all, but about the difficulty of balancing competing moral preferences.

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.

IJG's «Aims and Scope» appears to have been translated from a foreign language, as does the «About Us» of the umbrella organization, Scientific Research Publishing.

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