Sentences with phrase «starting point of science»

Not exact matches

A lot of science and fellow meditation experts back him up, pointing out several needless hurdles to getting started.

According to Science Daily, Dr. Nagy, senior investigator at the Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute of Mount Sinai Hospital, there is a «new method of generating stem cells that does not require embryos as starting points and could be used to generate cells from many adult tissues such as a patient's own skin cells.»

Because of his philosophical starting point (science goes from simple to complex), Dawkins does not regard the existence of the staircase as something whose existence needs to be proved, but rather as a logical necessity that only needs to be illustrated.

The point of evolutionary science, he says, is to explain how complex things get made from a simple start.

This particularity of our starting point has been highlighted by the social and historical sciences.

At that point in Science and the Modern World where Whitehead observes: «The relation of part to whole has the special reciprocity associated with the notion of organism, in which the part is for the whole»; he confirms: «but this relation reigns throughout nature and does not start with the special case of the higher organisms» [SMW 149].

Belief in the creation of the world in time, contrary to Artistotle's belief in an eternal universe, led Buridan to the concept of inertia, which isbasic to the understanding of local motion, itself the starting point of physics and hence of all modern science.

Maybe the fact that 335M # / week to fund NHS and reduce the cost of living are science fiction helps to start with the more populist point.

For Harris, the hotline can also serve as a starting point for human rights groups which are not yet sure of their needs but understand that science can benefit their work.

«We used the science of energy as the starting point,» said George DeBoer, deputy director of Project 2061 and the grant's lead investigator.

Indeed, in my book I pointed out that quite a lot of the big foundations of science preceded 1940, and then after the huge influx of American government funding, people said, «Well, the government's doing that,» and they started turning their attention to other things.

Montillo uses the classic novel Frankenstein as her starting point to explore the shady science and changing social mores that inspired Mary Shelley's 1818 tale, and folds details of Shelley's personal life into a broader history of early anatomists and alchemists.

«You could imagine, just because of the different ancestral starting points, that the Tibetan birds maybe all went one (mutational) route, and the Andean birds typically did things a different way,» said co-author Jay Storz, Susan J. Rosowski Professor of biological sciences at Nebraska.

Kazuaki Sakoda of Japans Nanomaterials Laboratory at the National Institute for Materials Science notes that the «work clearly demonstrates that even Plancks law — the starting point of the era of quantum mechanics [used to predict these interactions]-- can be modified.»

Based largely on testimonials from SGR members, it provides a good starting point if you've never really given the ethical side of science much thought before.

While this does not reveal any burning interest in science, at least he starts with a clean slate, enthusiasm and, as Science and Education pointed out last week, a sense of science, at least he starts with a clean slate, enthusiasm and, as Science and Education pointed out last week, a sense of Science and Education pointed out last week, a sense of humour.

His epochal text, De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres), is often conceived as the starting point of modern astronomy, as well as a central and defining epiphany in the history of all science.

Over a 4 - year period POWRE financed over 600 women nationwide at a critical stage of their science careers — the point at which the proportion of women starts to decline precipitously.

In a follow - on project to be conducted in collaboration with MedUni Vienna's Institute of Pharmacology and Center for Addiction Research and Science (AddRess) and, in particular, with drug and dopamine expert Harald Sitte, amongst others, the objective is now to find out whether, and, if so, how, activation of DeltaFosB can be prevented and how this highly promising starting point can be used to treat the onset of addictive behaviour.

Thus, what science has to say about an issue appears to be a reasonable starting point for lawmakers or bureaucrats seeking to forge consensus on a given issue; in a time of extreme polarization, there is some reason to believe that science can offer common ground.»

This might, I suspect, be the point at which you start to wonder what any of this has to do with Science.

The key point, he says, is that bright Americans «are turning away from science as a career because it offers a life of tremendously hard work, delaying all sorts of personal milestones — starting a family, buying a home --» while providing «almost no future job security.»

Long - standing research collaborations between British and European Union (EU) scientists suggest a starting point for rebuilding relations to support scientific advancement, wrote Graeme Reid, chair of science and research policy at University College London.

«Recognizing our shared values of awe at the universe and desiring the good of society helped provide me with a starting point for conversations concerning faith and science.»

The Green Bank Science Center is the starting point for your guided tour of the Green Bank Observatory site.

«These dress rehearsals enable our science teams to fine - tune their data acquisition techniques including pointing commands, iron out any software bugs, and get used to working with the data, well in advance of the start of the main mission starting next year,» Svedhem said in a press release.

We start with the birth of that adventure, the zero emission concept and the unique public / private partnership that made it possible for the station to become an international reference point, both in terms of environmental management and support of polar science.

The work, reported in the June 11, 2009 issue of Science Express, an advance, online publication of the journal Science, might also be a starting point on the way to exotic new materials that repair themselves or transform in response to their environment.

The starting point for the studies was a detailed catalog of all kinases in the cell, similar to one published in December 2002 in the journal Science.

In addition to the work of English and King and projects supporting robotics in schools, the review suggests primary teachers may find the following evidence - based programs useful as a starting point: Primary Connections, EngQuest, CS Unplugged and the Wonder of Science Challenge.

Since the first round of tests in 2000, no country has improved more than Peru (76 points in mathematics, 57 in reading and 40 in science), although it starts from a low base sitting 65th out of 65 countries in 2012.

So does another thing Ms. Gee says when she starts each science class telling us about a leader of color in science — she says she will never stop showing her blackness, because at one point we couldn't.

the process of using the local community and environment as a starting point to teach concepts in language arts, mathematics, social studies, science and other subjects across the curriculum.

And none of them showed up with huge backlists to start out with (Granted, they've all been insanely prolific, but I do want to point out that these were science fiction and fantasy people, not authors writing romance or erotica or whatever genre you've heard is super popular).

If you are at the beginning of your thesis, but are simply unable to come up with a suitable topic and starting point, we can provide you with a range of social science dissertation ideas or example material.

Director Richard Parry's programme cites thematic starting points for the festival, found in the nine core exhibitions, including «identity, science fiction, and society in the era of the internet».

In June I took the current draft of that paper as my starting point to get into current climate science: Start with Hansen, start with the most credible worst - case scenario or lowest - CO2 target proposed, work backwards to see how well suppoStart with Hansen, start with the most credible worst - case scenario or lowest - CO2 target proposed, work backwards to see how well suppostart with the most credible worst - case scenario or lowest - CO2 target proposed, work backwards to see how well supported.

In terms of method, the negative hypothesis of a BAU doubling of CO2 had to be the starting point, but once this was proven (if not by IPCC 1, then to the extent of last year's joint statement by the world's 11 leading National Science Academies) there was surely a need to provide projections based on a positive hypothesis of cogent action being instigated, as the means of defining for society just what those cogent actions consist of.

To get a feel for his views, which put the longtime Communist Party legislator in line with Tea Party talking points, start with the blistering critique of the appointment by Steve Schwartzman of the Environmental Defense Fund, who's been immersed in Brazilian environmental and forest science and politics for decades.

«Aimed at reflecting the major scientific issues facing earth science at the start of the 21st century, the questions represent where the field stands, how it arrived at this point, and where it may be headed,» the academy said in a news release.

An ideal starting place for exploring the science pointing to the enduring nature of such divides is Paul Slovic's «The Feeling of Risk.»

Finally, this all points to another reality — that if you care about blunting the buildup of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, you'd better start hoping for a lot more basic science on how to capture that gas cheaply and stash it away for safekeeping.

Perhaps the climate science community, with that starting point, has an eye for any corroborating evidence of global warming and a tendency to throw out dissenting info.

This seems to me to be the practical problem with the whole «get the politics out of the science» starting point.

And then extend that to «the frontiers of science» instead of industry — «reasonable ideas» are only starting points.

She needs to denounce the consensus manipulation of the term «science», acknowledge the motives that drove it for 40 + years born of eco-radicalism of other kinds as a better starting point.

The COP was in a bind because their starting point and assumption is the validity of IPCC science.

With respect, may I suggest that until you convince the population and governments of India and China (for a start) that there is a PROBABLE repeat PROBABLE likelyhood of AGW and thus facilitate the possibility of them coming on board in terms of actual, physical and verifiable emission reductions — only then is there any point in taking this discussion further to «settle» the science and derive a solution that actually works.

Science historians would point out that Professor Revelle did not prompt the first CO2 measurement in the atmosphere; what he prompted was the first sampling of air from locations around the world, and it was actually Harry Wexler, the head of the Weather Service at the time, who prompted and actually funded the start of the long - term monitoring program by David Keeling on Mauna Loa — so Revelle did play a very important role in stimulating observations (and in 1965 he chaired the panel on this issue that prepared a quite insightful appendix for the report of the President's Scientific Advisory Council), but Revelle was not the very first to urge CO2 be measured in the atmosphere.

Fortunately most science isn't as politically charged as climate science, otherwise the starting point for many of Dr. Curry's ideas to succeed would first require the step of establishing diversity through political affirmative action for faculty hires, not feasible within a reasonable timeframe, if at all.