Sentences with phrase «time in a scientific way»

Is it even possible to select the greatest video games of all time in a scientific way?

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Hinton, a British - born Cambridge University graduate, added: «Now is the time for us to lead the research and shape the future of this field, putting neural network technologies to work in ways that will improve health care, strengthen our economy and unlock new fields of scientific advancement.

«The way we think about it is that we used to have a very narrow focus on weight, and now weight is one of things we focus on but it's not the only thing,» Gary Foster, Weight Watchers» chief scientific officer, told Time magazine in late 2015.

Perhaps it is now time to recognize that the third world - changing scientific achievement of the last century is not the unmitigated good that much of Western culture claims it is — and that treating the sexual revolution as a unambiguous, indeed undeniable, boon to humanity can lead to a lot of personal unhappiness, homicidal ghouls like Kermit Gosnell, and the deployment of coercive state power in ways that threaten civil society and democracy.

So before religion goes by the way of the horse - and - buggy, someone with a brain in the evangelical church leadership needs to realize how ridiculous they sound every time they spew scientific nonsense.

Whitehead pointed out long ago, in Science and the Modern World, that the habits of medieval rationalism prepared the way for the scientific discoveries of the seventeenth century, an insight given far more documentation, depth, and scope in the writings of the historian and philosopher of science Stanley L. Jaki in our time.

Much of the time, theories will have to be adjusted and altered according to experiment and observation.BUT... Some of the time theory becomes fact... provable scientific fact, such as that we can use silicon and germanium in such a way that we can create electrical switches from these elements and we can use this to create computers.

In a way, every new scientific discovery is a proof that we're headed towards a time when we don't need God as an explanation any more.

So, too, his view that standards of truth will vary from one time and place to another, as well as his denial that there are available to any rational agent standards of truth sufficient to resolve fundamental moral, scientific, and metaphysical disputes in a definitive way.

In a very real way, our time and the surrounding culture may be defined by scientific and technological advances, and perhaps even more by the incoherent and confused responses to these advances.

As we explore these issues our itinerary will be as follows: (1) we shall look first at several ways in which reflection on science has contributed to the feeling of cosmic exile and therefore to our environmental carelessness; (2) then we shall examine how theologies from our own Christian tradition that have hovered closely, even though critically, around modern scientific cosmologies have perpetuated the same feeling of cosmic exile; and (3) finally we shall look briefly at how a cosmological understanding of religion centering on the notion of adventure can both reconcile us to the evolving universe and at the same time allow us to embrace the feeling of religious homelessness present in religious teachings.

He can in this way realign philosophy with contemporary scientific theory, while at the same time providing the latter with a «ground» in immediate experience which had been lacking in traditional empiricism, modeled as that was on corpuscular theories of nature.8 In his early work, Whitehead employs Bradley's antiatomism within a classically empiricist framework; redefined as a continuum, sensation still plays its conventional role as a theory of «presentation» (EPNK 60), the given foundation of the reflective processin this way realign philosophy with contemporary scientific theory, while at the same time providing the latter with a «ground» in immediate experience which had been lacking in traditional empiricism, modeled as that was on corpuscular theories of nature.8 In his early work, Whitehead employs Bradley's antiatomism within a classically empiricist framework; redefined as a continuum, sensation still plays its conventional role as a theory of «presentation» (EPNK 60), the given foundation of the reflective processin immediate experience which had been lacking in traditional empiricism, modeled as that was on corpuscular theories of nature.8 In his early work, Whitehead employs Bradley's antiatomism within a classically empiricist framework; redefined as a continuum, sensation still plays its conventional role as a theory of «presentation» (EPNK 60), the given foundation of the reflective processin traditional empiricism, modeled as that was on corpuscular theories of nature.8 In his early work, Whitehead employs Bradley's antiatomism within a classically empiricist framework; redefined as a continuum, sensation still plays its conventional role as a theory of «presentation» (EPNK 60), the given foundation of the reflective processIn his early work, Whitehead employs Bradley's antiatomism within a classically empiricist framework; redefined as a continuum, sensation still plays its conventional role as a theory of «presentation» (EPNK 60), the given foundation of the reflective process.9

Those who reacted in a purely defensive way to the presentation of Darwin's theories failed to grasp the truth of the new scientific discoveries and set their minds and hearts against the new discoveries, spending so much time and energy defending the indefensible that they failed to make truly relevant the deepest insights of the faith.

Scientific method, as taught in the UK, means that we first propose a hypothesis, then find ways of testing it, then try it out sufficient times to demonstrate what we need to know.

All moral values must ultimately be grounded in human nature, and in my book The Science of Good and Evil (Times Books, 2004), I build a scientific case for the evolutionary origins of the moral sentiments and for the ways in which science can inform moral decisions.

It's probably worth at least a footnote that like many things in our memory, they are not always as trustworthy as you think — and I think some people would go back and look at some of those old issues and be a little bit disappointed that some things were not exactly the way that they remembered them — but the fact is that for its time, Scientific American was a fantastic science magazine.

Huxley's effectiveness as a populariser is said to have «depended on his being behind the times... his philosophical, scientific, and economic paradigms are in significant ways pre-Heideggerian, pre-Einsteinian, and pre-Keynesian».

To our knowledge, never before has a videogame intervention been developed with such extensive input from its target audience, and tested through rigorous scientific methods over a long stretch of time, demonstrating that kids will engage in a game with serious content and learn things that impact the way they think and potentially what they do.»

The research, published in the journal Scientific Reports, shows for the first time that the way in which fat is made within the body is not «pre-programmed» during the early years of development as previously thought but even in adulthood cells can be influenced by our environment to change the type of fat that is formed.

Jansson says that being compensated for his time «does not in any way cloud my judgment as an independent investigator of scientific discoveries.»

Nevertheless, Physica, Aristotle's treatise on the nature of motion, change, and time, stands out because in it he presented a systematic way of studying the natural world — one that held sway for two millennia and led to modern scientific method.

Landing humans on Mars is a completely achievable feat with current technology — if you are okay with the idea of a one - way ticket, points out physicist and Scientific American columnist Lawrence Krauss in an op - ed in yesterday's New York Times.

Led by the National Center for Scientific Research «Demokritos», in Greece, the project team aims to find ways to induce and stabilise the silicon and germanium and prove for the first time that silicene has a physical existence.

According to our current scientific understanding, at least most galaxies (including our Milky Way and those in Messier's catalog) have formed during a comparatively short period, at about the same time, within the first billion years after the universe started to expand, from an initial hot state.

«In some ways, InSight is like a scientific time machine that will bring back information about the earliest stages of Mars» formation 4.5 billion years ago,» said Bruce Banerdt, the principal investigator for InSight at JPL.

Finally, the scientific approaches to the analysis of samples is changing all the time: that is that options are increasing all the time and the treatment options are changing all the time so large scale studies set up to recruit sufficient patients and test them in a particular way must be «future proofed» so that the results stand the test of time.

Once you have no more symptoms at all on the elimination diet, it is time to reintroduce high FODMAP foods one at a time in a very scientific way in order to see how far you can expand your diet.

«The scientific world has undergone a revolution in the way it understands the gastrointestinal tract, specifically the role played by the bacteria that live there... we've only just recently appreciated that if the microbiota are not being properly attended to — if they're not being fed enough plant fiber or if they're being indiscriminately wiped out by the overuse of antibiotics or they're damaged over time by excessive amounts of stress hormones — a Pandora's Box of bad things gets opened up.

Most of all my chronic psoriasis patients had failed many times and followed enough dead - end streets when it came to psoriasis recovery.When I formulated the Psoriasis Program, my goal was to create the most complete natural psoriasis solution covering every facet of treatment in a way that was easy to understand, follow and implement in your life, yet was proven to be highly effective, scientific and clinically - proven.

We first meet Lena, whose scientific speciality is the study of cancerous cells and the genetic information they contain, as she's being interrogated by men wearing biohazard suits about an experience she's just been through, a mysterious trip to an indescribable place where time itself moved in mysterious ways.

And in the process, Boser acknowledges one of the fundamental contradictions related to this accrued scientific knowledge of education and human development: At no other time have we known so much about human potential — the plasticity of the brain, the conditions that activate and stimulate human performance, and the ways technology can deliver knowledge and skills - training at a scale and efficiency that was unimaginable even a decade ago.

In case it is compared to their own philosophies, because the psikhé remains historically valued, their wised ways, their heels, and not their scientific philosophies held at a time.

Interestingly enough, every time I corner a fanatic with scientific facts which they can not argue or disprove, they either dismiss me as «anti-God» and a «secular humanist» or they start spouting reams of misapplied and irrelevant «scripture» at me, like good little sheeple and like that will in any way, shape or form prove anything... Which just proves to me that common sense and actual reason doesn't come into it.

I and my friends have been testing our phones and to be fair, we tried to do it in as scientific a way as possible: all in the same area, at the same time, from the same provider.

That said, for those of us who have heard again and again that dogs are just domesticated wolves living in a «pack» of humans — and who hasn't heard that more times than you can count, thanks to the popularization of the concept on TV — it might be helpful to learn all the scientific reasoning behind how wolves and dogs are different (and how we misunderstood wolves and their pack interactions for a very, very long time), why those «alpha dog» approaches aren't the best way to relate to your dog (and in fact, can even cause more problems), and why alternate approaches like positive reinforcement and reading the body language of a dog as a dog and not a mini wolf do work.

In her review, ArtsATL critic Meredith Kooi admires the way Romany «takes these historical scientific methods, the technologies of the time, the chromatic scale, and creates a lovely show.»

This represents the scientific view of the time, those garbled versions that appeared in the press of the time don't change that but they are what is remembered, similar misrepresentation goes on to day and is a very unreliable way to find out what the scientific view is on any subject.

We talked about the filmmakers» efforts to convey the creation story in a way that meshed the storytelling power of the Bible with time scales and images reflecting scientific understanding of the origins of Earth and species.

I realise the scientific community's forecast regarding the time window in which to accomplish what needs to be done to reverse our environmental destruction is most often bleak, but in a perverse way, if it weren't getting so bad, we wouldn't have a hope in hell of taking action.

Failures in the Earth system are already beginning to occur in a number of ways at a GMT increase of only 0.8 oC; GMT does not address huge regional differences in temperature increase; a temperature target doesn't even address ocean acidification; and we are frittering our time here (and in numerous scientific papers) addressing 2oC as if it is a reasonable target???

Last year in an earlier post on asteroid impacts, Mr. Schweickart mused on an issue at the heart of Dot Earth — how political systems, reflecting human nature, still seem to be having a hard time integrating scientific understanding, uncertainties and all, in ways that result in policies and investments that could blunt risks while fostering prosperity.

Finally, I hope you'll take time to listen below to two rich discussions of ways to build more focus on scientific insights, and the value of scientific research, into the political process in this country.

In less entertaining but more important ways, we respond to scientific predictions all the time, even though we have no independent capacity to verify the calculations.

Since that time three or four years ago, there has been no comfortable way for the scientific community to raise the spectre of serious uncertainty about the forecasts of climatic disaster... It can no longer escape prime responsibility if it should turn out in the end that doing something in the name of mitigation of global warming is the costliest scientific mistake ever visited on humanity.

«It is especially impressive to see the way in which the NIPCC has summarized findings in the beginning sections of the book in a way that will be quick and easy for media to grab quotes from (in fact, I challenge open - minded journalists to do that), while, at the same time, going into details, with many prominent peer - reviewed scientific references, on each of the main topics in the following chapters.

Tomorrow we'll pay attention to that very interesting new study about clouds — a bombshell we think — but today we have another one that should serve as a foundation to scientific thinking about climate forcing, namely the suggestion that «not all climate forcers are equal» — equal in the way they act as a cooling or warming force, considering important factors like time scale and the geographical characteristics of a planet with a 3D atmosphere and a northern hemisphere with land masses and a southern hemisphere with just mainly a lot of oceans.

It briefly identifies the morally indefensible tactics used by a campaign designed to undermine mainstream climate science in ways that utterly fail to acheive minimum norms of responsible scientific skepticism while at the same time greatly endangering many of the world's poorest people The video distinguishes responsible skepticism, something that should be encouraged, from morally abhorrent disinformation.

Since to me (and many scientists, although some wanted a lot more corroborative evidence, which they've also gotten) it makes absolutely no sense to presume that the earth would just go about its merry way and keep the climate nice and relatively stable for us (though this rare actual climate scientist pseudo skeptic seems to think it would, based upon some non scientific belief — see second half of this piece), when the earth changes climate easily as it is, climate is ultimately an expression of energy, it is stabilized (right now) by the oceans and ice sheets, and increasing the number of long term thermal radiation / heat energy absorbing and re radiating molecules to levels not seen on earth in several million years would add an enormous influx of energy to the lower atmosphere earth system, which would mildly warm the air and increasingly transfer energy to the earth over time, which in turn would start to alter those stabilizing systems (and which, with increasing ocean energy retention and accelerating polar ice sheet melting at both ends of the globe, is exactly what we've been seeing) and start to reinforce the same process until a new stases would be reached well after the atmospheric levels of ghg has stabilized.

In addition to inherent scientific uncertainties slowing response, a variety of human and institutional barriers stand in the way of adaptation measures: long lead - times for rule changes; ideological resistance; a preoccupation with the near - term; false perceptions that climate impacts either won't be too painful or are off in the distant future; business - as - usual assumptions; and lack of national leadershiIn addition to inherent scientific uncertainties slowing response, a variety of human and institutional barriers stand in the way of adaptation measures: long lead - times for rule changes; ideological resistance; a preoccupation with the near - term; false perceptions that climate impacts either won't be too painful or are off in the distant future; business - as - usual assumptions; and lack of national leadershiin the way of adaptation measures: long lead - times for rule changes; ideological resistance; a preoccupation with the near - term; false perceptions that climate impacts either won't be too painful or are off in the distant future; business - as - usual assumptions; and lack of national leadershiin the distant future; business - as - usual assumptions; and lack of national leadership.

As the Australian blogger Joanne Nova summarised Tol's findings, John Cook of the University of Queensland and his team used an unrepresentative sample, left out much useful data, used biased observers who disagreed with the authors of the papers they were classifying nearly two - thirds of the time, and collected and analysed the data in such a way as to allow the authors to adjust their preliminary conclusions as they went along, a scientific no - no if ever there was one.