The first part of the report examines the nature of traditional knowledge and the triangular relationship between science, traditional knowledge and pseudo-science.
These include recommendations that ICSU support societies that are keepers and developers of traditional knowledge, that it foster training which equips young scientists and indigenous people to carry out research on traditional knowledge and that it organize an international symposium on science and traditional knowledge.
This publication was launched during the Plenary Thematic Session ' Indigenous Knowledge and Science: From Recognition to Knowledge Co-production' on 13 June 2012 during the five-day Forum on Science, Technology and Innovation for Sustainable Development, in Rio de Janeiro.
Although the demarcation between science and pseudo-science is difficult, they note, the demarcation between pseudo-science and traditional knowledge is fairly straightforward.
The report recommends the creation of an ad hoc working group on science and traditional knowledge.
Published in March of this year, the report makes a number of recommendations for strengthening ties between modern science and traditional knowledge.
True to the title of the book, many of these have involved experiments that explore the limits of human ingenuity in realms such as private space flight, brain science and digital knowledge-gathering.
Finally, it is dysfunctional because it is way too slow in translating new knowledge and science into helping human beings, at a time when we're going to have an enormous explosion in scientific knowledge.
Another side event on recognizing indigenous and local knowledge and building synergies with science (Item 5 of the agenda) will also be organized by UNESCO.
The spread between science knowledge and sports knowledge is one of the reasons why sports organizations have an outsize impact when they go green.
Drawing on more than 150 years of materials science and process engineering knowledge, Corning creates and makes keystone components that enable high-technology systems for consumer electronics, mobile emissions control, telecommunications and life sciences.
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As a first step, the Study Group recommends that ICSU actively promote cooperation between traditional knowledge and science at the United Nations World Summit for Sustainable Development in Johannesburg (South Africa) in August 2002.
The report was commissioned by ICSU's General Assembly in September 1999 to make a 'critical study' of the paragraphs in the Declaration and Science Agenda referring to traditional knowledge systems.
He remarks that the Western civilization is the first one to construct a science, a knowledge and description of nature that negates the sacred altogether.
To make the machine commercial strength and add depth to his materials science knowledge, he brought in Weinberg, his onetime chemical engineering professor at the California Institute of Technology.
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One solution, proposed by Matt Ridley, a British commentator on the social consequences of genetic knowledge (and former science editor of The Economist), might be the creation of medical-treatment funds, similar to pension funds.
It tested students on how much they knew about science and their ability to use scientific knowledge to address questions in daily life.
Knowledge of disease and the science of treatment are always evolving.
In this context, Princess Sumaya presented the objectives of El Hassan Science City to foster scientific knowledge and research.
At Maria's school, half the students don't pass Arizona's proficiency exams, which means they don't meet the bar for basic knowledge in math, reading and science.
The technology revolution increased the need for people with knowledge of science, mathematics and engineering, but the number of degrees granted in these hard majors is roughly stagnant.
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Ministers say the curriculum will be slimmed down, but there will be "detailed programmes of study" for English, maths and science that will set out the "core knowledge" expected.
By 2020, knowledge, the science base and technologies relating to biodiversity, its values, functioning, status and trends, and the consequences of its loss, are improved, widely shared and transferred, and applied.
Without leaving his scientific footing, Simon developed a bias for optimism about man, knowledge, science, technological progress and the future.
To get the most business value from the exploding quantities of data requires skills from all of these groups, combining business knowledge, analytical skills, and computer science.
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But science will come from lots of places, and basic knowledge travels freely.
They lack the specialists, up-to-the-minute knowledge about cutting-edge science, and the scale to become the low-cost player in the industry.
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Popularizing science includes all activities that communicate scientific knowledge and scientific methods to the public, outside the formal setting of classrooms.
One of UNESCO's main mandates is to promote the free flow of all forms of knowledge in education, science, culture and communication.
At this late stage, the documents are almost totally bereft of any reference to science, despite the fact that science is a prolific producer and user of information and knowledge.
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