Harvard profs call for candidate debate on science

University Wire;  February 7, 2008 ;     477 words ......scrambling for their periodic tables. Science Debate 2008, a grassroots movement calling...a list of over 13,000 signers, Science Debate 2008 highlights the support from...University spokesman John D. Longbrake. Science Debate 2008, chaired by Republican representative...

Commentary: Office Visit: The great science debate?

THE JOURNAL RECORD;  February 13, 2008 ;     494 words ......play host to the presidential Science Debate 2008. The question is: If...child of a motley crew of science aficionados: 11 Nobel laureates...Yet Shawn Otto, the CEO of Science Debate, has insisted that this event...he has said, will be about science policy issues. Science ...

AAAS Joins Call for Presidential Debate on Science and Innovation Issues

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  January 26, 2008 ;     611 words ......Association for the Advancement of Science issued the following news...announced that it has joined Science Debate 2008, a major effort to mount a presidential debate on science, technology and the economy...the November election. "Science and engineering have driven...Launched in December ...

Clinton, Obama advisers tout science policies

University Wire;  February 19, 2008 ;     700 words ......two candidates had similar science policies, but different...low-income Americans to enter the science fields and research careers...bring their concerns about science into the public sphere and...is one of the sponsors of Science Debate 2008, an effort aimed to...candidates' policy issues ...

AAAS Urges Presidential Candidates to Address Key Science-Related Issues

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  March 17, 2008 ;     306 words ......publisher of the journal Science. "We are far from the days...important dialogue on how science and technology could help...invited to a debate focused on science and technology that would...idea for a presidential science debate has been organized by Science Debate 2008, ...

Name Your Issue: Science in the 2008 Election

NPR Talk of the Nation Science Friday;  February 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ......the presidential candidates to participate in a science debate called Science Debate 2008? If they were to, what issues should they...about some of these issues and make a case for a science debate is David Baltimore, winner of the 1975 Nobel Prize...

Science: The Human Touch So why all this fuss about science studies, asks...

The Independent - London;  June 28, 1998 ;     700+ words ...SCIENCE SETS THE standard for rationality in today's society, yet our attachment to science is anything but rational. This paradox captures the excitement...scholars who study the social and cultural foundations of science, known as "science studies". It also explains why practicing...

Making the Modern World.(largest historical gallery of Science Museum,...

History Today;  August 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ...The Science Museum, London, last year opened its largest...be used to answer them. The `history of science', including the histories of technology...in political history, had believed that science was the exception to the mid, and in his...

The science of the brands: alchemy, adevertising and accountancy.

International Journal of Market Research;  June 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ......expense of art or creativity. Though the methods of science are important for evaluation and measurement, the...seeing the process in terms of a blend of the new sciences of systems thinking, where novelty and surprise emerge...transformation of nothing into something. This view sees art, science and ...

Science of Science and Reflexivity.(Book review)

Social Forces;  September 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ...Science of Science and Reflexivity By Pierre Bourdieu University of Chicago Press, 2004...final lecture course at the College de France. It attempts to show how science produces transhistorical truths despite the fact that scientific production...

Science Without Borders

Skeptic;  January 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ...Science Without Borders The Universe In a Single Atom: The of Science and Spirituality by His Holiness the Daiai Lama. Morgan...Burden of Skepticism," the astronomer Carl Sagan opined: "In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's...

COLUMN: Science doesn't exclude science

University Wire;  November 27, 2006 ;     700+ words ......The war between science and religion rages...title "God vs. Science," an article in...discussion about science and religion. I...which the God vs. Science debate has been based...topic concerning science and religion has...regarding God and science is ...

Safe Food: Don't Let Science Get in the Way

The Washington Post;  October 25, 1998 ;     700+ words ...Science is a process, not a promise. It is by nature cautious...and cumbersome. It is only recently, for instance, that science has "proven," by the discovery of a mechanism, that tobacco...accumulated data, the safety of DDT is still debated. It took science a decade to demonstrate -- and not to the ...

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute President Shirley Ann Jackson calls for...

M2 Presswire;  February 18, 2008 ;     700+ words ......Presidential debate on science, technology, and...Presidential debate on science, technology, and...participate in Science Debate 2008. Launched...challenges are rooted in science, technology, and...greater interest in science, technology, engineering...register support for ...

Science and Politics in International Environmental Regimes: Between...

The Geographical Journal;  September 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ...Science and Politics in International Environmental Regimes: Between...political communities are complex and highly contested. Science and Politics in International Environmental Regimes attempts...these relations by analyzing the different ways in which science and politics have come together in ...