It has fundamental significance for UNESCO nowadays, at a time when science has tremendous power to shape the future of humanity and when it no longer makes much sense to design science policy in purely national terms.
At issue is whether this innocuous-sounding measure is actually a back door that would allow teachers to introduce creationism and intelligent design into science classrooms.
Not surprisingly, his thinking has been welcomed in film design and science fiction, where the laws of physics and finance can be overcome with CGI or words on a page.
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Led by international, interdisciplinary teams of emerging talents in the areas of urbanism, architecture, art, design, science, technology, education, and sustainability, the Lab will address issues of contemporary urban life through programs and public discourse.
Instead, it incorporates elements of physics and chemistry into several new degree courses such as toxicology, drug design and sports science.
How do you free up the people who do design and data science from the people who do hunting and gathering of data?
At the moment, 14 to 16-year-olds in England have to study English, maths, science, design and technology, modern foreign languages, information and communications technology and PE.
"What we are doing is the basic science to design these things, like how big should items be, and how they can stop interfering with each other, " explained Professor Brewster.
After boycotting a series of hearings in Topeka last May, in which supporters of intelligent design criticized evolution, science groups are now mobilizing to defend what biologists say is a bedrock scientific theory.
Bob Cater noted that while there has been a positive increase in the number of pupils studying mathematics after the age of 16, advances in the number of people studying science, design and technology and engineering have only been modest.
It's an intriguing idea and an exciting confluence of cutting edge science and industrial design.
"We are a group of students and recent grads from Parsons, NYU-ITP and Cooper Union studying art, engineering, environmental science, and design, " said the Windchimes team.
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The Ozics Group, a Swiss biotech firm, believes it has found a way to manage osteoporosis with a newly discovered innovative material that is the perfect marriage of science and device design.
Even teenagers, with their boundless enthusiasm for looking ridiculous, have to draw the line somewhere, and the artificial fabrics and science-fiction design of glam rock's outfits, which make the costumes in the closing credits of "Mamma Mia!"
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The MacArthur Foundation and industry leaders like Sony are launching a nationwide challenge to design compelling, freely available, science-related video games.
So if they can make that link, then they get a slam dunk and intelligent design will not be taught in science class.
"Your brain is a muscle, too, " says Newton, a college dropout and former graphic design teacher who was once the science adviser on the Discovery Channel's hit series MythBusters.
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At the same time, we can also see how creation science or intelligent-design theories attempt to make God another secondary cause, another explanation for empirical events, without attending to the deeper level of causation that God provides.
What was most interesting about our conversations was that my questions and comments as a literary writer who frequently uses science theory to shape the conceptual design of my texts, opened up possibilities within their fields of research that they had not yet envisioned.
This week the Kansas Board of Education approved a draft of new science standards proposed by supporters of intelligent design.
The Make it So: Learning from Sci-Fi Interfaces panel at SXSW looked at how science fiction might influence the future of design.
While the new Kansas science standards don't include intelligent design, they go further than any state guidelines so far in raising questions about evolution.
Second, disruptive new business models are overwhelmingly likely to be hybrids that bring together at least two different innovations in areas that include product design, supply chain organization, retailing models, materials science research, manufacturing and organizational effectiveness.
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The trio argues in a paper that will be published in Science and Technology Ethics that the people who design the algorithms for computer-automated trading should take a lesson from the engineers and technicians who keep our food, medicines and airlines safe.
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But the model version makes the simple beauty of the design, by Japan's Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, eminently clear.
His first choice was architecture, but the counselor didn't think Mr. Kane was strong enough in science and math and steered him instead toward industrial design.
Once again, it is important to understand that antenna design needs to be carefully done and even then it is part science and part art, and the antenna experts who work on these devices clearly understand the art part.
Where engineering in the 1880s organized itself around lines suggested by the physical sciences, the new technologists are organizing in new ways, along lines suggested by the cognitive, aesthetic and social sciences and arts: computer science, psychology, social psychology, user-experience and design.
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The proposed science standards in Kansas won't require teachers to talk about creationism or intelligent design.
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