Sentences with phrase «social scientists now»

Some biologists and social scientists now suggest that, quite unlike animals, humans can become dominant by making friends, building alliances, or deploying the gentle forces of compromise and persuasion.

Manuel Cebrian, a computational social scientist now based at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization in Clayton, Australia, won that challenge with his colleagues by using social media to hunt down 10 red weather balloons released across the United States.

Not exact matches

Then and now, although much less now, sociologists and political scientists tended to ignore or downplay «the religious factor» in social attitudes and behavior, including politics.

Gods will is for us humans today to evolved to a level of conciousness that will prepare us for the challenges of our future survival, Scientists now predicts of hardships in the future due to over population and changes to the natural environment.and that is happening now with activists through out the world are reminding us of protecting nature.That is why we need a phsychological revolution to hasten the evolution of consciousness that will address the problems.Ideological and philosophical enlightenment had the past great minds to develop ideas and belief because God sent them to reality in their times.Abraham, Jesus, Mohammad, Buddha, and many other religious leaders to teach humanity the doctrines that God willed to be appropriate and applicable in those periods of their existence, Also great philosophers in another dimension of social involvement were born to interprete and connect philosophically as the second element of our conscience, Kant, Marx and countless of them also were born.To complete the triangular structure or dimension of our conscience is knowledge.

Perhaps the key attraction of world - system theory, overall, is that it sensitizes social scientists to the growing global interdependence that now exists among nation - states.

Now, it would be very nice if economists and social scientists could tell us just where this level is» one might call it the social - democratic tolerance threshold.

Conventional wisdom used to hold that it was the changing sex hormones that made kids «crazy,» but scientists now understand that puberty kicks off changes in the brain that make youth more emotionally sensitive, more sensitive to their social world, more willing to take risks, and more vulnerable to mental illness and addictions.

Now scientists are discovering that contact with others through social media or a phone call from a loved one also causes the release of oxytocin.

With events from some of the country's leading social scientists, the Festival celebrates the very best of British social science research and how it influences our social, economic and political lives - both now and in the future.

Now, there's firm evidence for that from Durham University anthropologist Jamshid Tehrani and New University of Lisbon social scientist Sara Graça da Silva.

Now, an Indiana University faculty member who studies the spread of misinformation online is joining prominent legal scholars, social scientists and researchers in a global «call to action» in the fight against it.

My job now consists of mediating with developers to build a better product for scientists, hosting workshops and demos, attending conferences and doing social media marketing.

This article focus on the moral and social responsibilities of scientists then - Nazi period in Germany - and now.

Many social animals start to feel itchy after watching one of their fellows scratch, and scientists now have a better understanding of why an itch can spread through a group.

«A fifth of scientists now say that coverage of their work and discussion about their work in social media is also important for getting advancements in their discipline,» Rainie said.

Now that he knows what to look for, Benton hopes to unveil the colors of other feathered dinosaurs, helping scientists trace their relationship to birds and even decode their social behavior.

Now, a study by Facebook's in - house social scientists finds that this does indeed happen, though the effect is very small.

Indeed, we now need piloting through a maelstrom of ideas, claims, counterclaims and even onslaughts from social scientists.

The social scientists behind GamesWithWords.org are now asking you to watch 15 - to 30 - second clips of baby videos and take note of what attracts the tykes» attention.

Furthermore, there are now social media places for scientists, and thus one can easily look for like - minded researchers (if one does not know enough from the literature already).

The event that grew from social media conversations among scientists into a global movement is now scheduled to unfold in Washington and at least 608 satellite locations around the world.

Science NOW contacted Facebook's in - house social scientists about the work.

That advice is especially pertinent now, the scientists say, when people everywhere are linked by social and other media in an «information society.»

The Vermont scientists are now studying Twitter feeds to watch how emotions change within social networks in real time.

Now social scientists have studied these ancient stashes, called coin hoards, to answer a long - standing Roman mystery.

By now, applications of artificial life (Alife) are becoming commonplace: Social scientists use «evolutionary» algorithms to explore social interactions, for example, while biologists harness the equations for studying protein folding and lining up DNA sequSocial scientists use «evolutionary» algorithms to explore social interactions, for example, while biologists harness the equations for studying protein folding and lining up DNA sequsocial interactions, for example, while biologists harness the equations for studying protein folding and lining up DNA sequences.

But now some social scientists have rediscovered the appeal of adult supervision — provided the adults have doctorates and vast caches of psychometric data.

Taking into consideration broad, economic, technological, and demographic changes, the contributors — all leading social scientists in their fields — suggest that these global transformations will require youth to develop new skills, sensibilities, and habits of mind that are far ahead of what most educational systems can now deliver.

This isn't that social (let alone anti-social) scientist speaking now.

Participants: artist and poet Etel Adnan; artist Maria Thereza Alves; artist Korakrit Arunanondchai; artist Ed Atkins; conservationist Jonathan Baillie; architect Alessandro Bava; writer and media activist Franco «Bifo» Berardi; designer Irma Boom; Founder of The Whole Earth Catalog and Co-Founder of The Long Now Foundation, Stewart Brand; artist James Bridle; EDGE Foundation founder John Brockman; philosopher Federico Campagna; artist Heman Chong; martist Yve Laris Cohen; odel and actress Lily Cole; neuroscientist Molly Crockett; philosopher Helena Cronin; film - maker Adam Curtis; artist Jesse Darling; artist Benedict Drew; artist and poet Jimmie Durham; mathematician Marcus du Sautoy; palaeontologist Richard Fortey; agriculturalist and biodiversity archivist Cary Fowler; artists Gilbert & George; cultural critic and queer theorist Jack Halberstam; artist Susan Hiller; artist and designer Marguerite Humeau; choreographer Mette Ingvartsen; environmental social scientist Jennifer Jacquet; biologist and author Steve Jones; former Royal Navy Rear Admiral Nick Lambert; speculative designer Lisa Ma; biologist Georgina Mace; physicist Chiara Marletto; film - maker Sandy McLeod; artist and activist Gustav Metzger; artist Katja Novitskova; artist Trevor Paglen; artist Cornelia Parker; artist Hetain Patel; anthropologist Elizabeth Povinelli; evolutionary ornithologist Richard Prum; design writer Alice Rawsthorn; astrophysicist Martin Rees; Professor, Operational Research, Jonathan Rosenhead; artist Jeremy Shaw; artist Shimabuku; film - maker Eyal Sivan; writer Adam Thirlwell; environmental lawyer James Thornton; musician and sound recordist Chris Watson; artist Cerith Wyn Evans and artist Anna Zett.

Over 25 years since the World Wide Web phenomenon began, computer scientists, social psychologists, writers, and artists are now questioning how digital technologies are impacting our daily lives.

Raymond Pierrehumbert, a longtime climate scientist now at Oxford, stopped by The New York Times earlier this month for a long fruitful chat on climate change science and solutions and the hurdles — mostly internal and social (including political)-- that impede progress.

Social scientists were unable to see a problem, are going to try to fix one for all the kids now.

But it would be unfortunate if it led to still greater separation between physical and social scientists, with economists dominating the discussion of policy options even more than now.

* There is too much conflicting evidence about climate change to know whether it is actually happening * Current climate change is part of a pattern that has been going on for millions of years * Climate change is just a natural fluctuation in Earth's temperatures * Even if we do experience some consequences from climate change, we will be able to cope with them * The effects of climate change are likely to be catastrophic * The evidence for climate change is unreliable * There are a lot of very different theories about climate change and little agreement about which is right * Scientists have in the past changed their results to make climate change appear worse than it is * Scientists have hidden research that shows climate change is not serious * Climate change is a scam * Social / behavioural scepticism measures * Climate change is so complicated, that there is very little politicians can do about it * There is no point in me doing anything about climate change because no - one else is * The actions of a single person doesn't make any difference in tackling climate change * People are too selfish to do anything about climate change * Not much will be done about climate change, because it is not in human nature to respond to problems that won't happen for many years * It is already too late to do anything about climate change * The media is often too alarmist about climate change * Environmentalists do their best to emphasise the worst possible effects of climate change * Climate change has now become a bit of an outdated issue * Whether it is important or not, on a day - to - day basis I am bored of hearing about climate change

Perhaps this hard working social scientist will do another project and explore the mind of the AGW true believer and let us now how enlightenment in this anthropocene age of climate catastrophe functions.

Social scientists have a key role in convincing policy makers that, in the new context of the Anthropocene, geopolitics now has to be about sharing a crowded world rather than trying to dominate a divided one.

During a period as Lecturer and Reader in climate change modelling at Leeds University, I expanded my areas of research work even more broadly, so that I now work with social scientists, biologists, physicists and climate scientists on a range of projects.

Now that scientists are recruited into the business of social organisation, there more at stake than the discovery of the material world.

But, now that social scientists have started to count bodies in different historical periods, they have discovered that the romantic theory gets it backward: Far from causing us to become more violent, something in modernity and its cultural institutions has made us nobler.

Now to social scientists, such a public response can mean only one thing.

Maybe ParaNormal Science grows into something, but for now a conference that's little more than a social gathering is not a good use of a busy true scientist's time.

There is now ample consensus among social scientists that certain risks (such as academic failure, early psychiatric problems, and language delays) are highly correlated with poor outcomes.

In fact, in what is probably an unprecedented event, last month 110 renowned social scientists explicitly endorsed an article supporting shared parenting - no doubt as a signal to the academic community this is now settled science.

He also served as co-investigator with OSLC scientist Dr. Charles R. Martinez, Jr. (now director of the Center for Equity Promotion in the College of Education at the University of Oregon) on a variety of projects through the Oregon Social Learning Center Latino Research Team, including the Latino Youth and Family Empowerment Project I and II, which developed and tested a culturally specific parent training intervention for Latino families with youngsters at risk for substance use and related problems; the Adolescent Latino Acculturation Study, which was designed to learn more about how Latino families and their middle school youth who have immigrated to the U.S. adapt to life in this country; and PREVENIR, which developed and refined a culturally specific parent and teacher training program in four countries in Central America.