Joan Lappin will be speaking at the NY Public Library Science Industry and Business Branch on Tuesday, April 9th.
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The event aimed to inform the general public on science-related news that have an impact on their and the planet's future.
Which means, once again, introducing the discussion of religion (or the lack thereof in this case) into the public school science curriculum.
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"When I was first Minister of Science and Innovation there was an initiative called the 'public understanding of science', " he explained.
He has written several popular science books, including The Selfish Gene and holds the Charles Simonyi Chair for the Public Understanding of Science at Oxford.
In the public square, science is the most powerfully recognized way to legitimize dreams.
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Their results are published in the current issue of Public Library of Science Medicine.
The results of this international small-game hunt have just been published in Public Library of Science Biology.
In America, a not-for-profit organisation called the Public Library of Science is employing a similar business model.
In a recent study (published in the journal Public Library of Science One) seven pairs of subjects controlled virtual avatars.
They have just reported their results in the Public Library of Science.
Some colleagues complain that he excavates incautiously, puts public relations before science, hypes his own archeological finds, and takes credit owed to others.
The less civil the accompanying comments, the more risk readers attributed to the research, a finding that has implications for the public understanding of science.
Professor Richard Gardner, chairman of the group that prepared the report, believes that such a ban would receive public support and increase public faith in science.
Mark Brandon, a polar oceanographer at the Open University who specialises in public understanding of science, compiled his own account of recent communication on the Arctic.
They regretted the fact that many newspaper editors tended to be sceptical about the level of public interest in science and thus reluctant to publish stories on science.
In most places, after all, the public administrators of science are themselves drawn from the ranks of university scientists, and share a belief in the value of curiosity-driven inquiry.
Collapsing public investment in science could be followed by a reduction in private sector spending, and those two combined would mean that our finest researchers will begin new careers abroad.
These leaders came together at the invitation of the White House Offices of Public Engagement and Science and Technology Policy, and the Level Playing Field Institute, for the first Tech Inclusion Summit.
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Compared to controls, the rats also showed increased sensitivity to stress and produced more of a stress hormone, in a study published in May in a Public Library of Science journal, PLoS One.
Indeed, a petition is now circulating from a group calling itself the Public Library of Science, urging scientists to boycott any publisher that will not relinquish the rights to published bio-medical papers after six months.
Lauri Lebo at Religion Dispatches has been keeping up on attempts by creationists affiliated with the Lousiana Family Forum (LFF) to interfere with the inclusion of evolutionary biology in public high school science textbooks.
The findings, reported in papers published by Nature and the Public Library of Science, were based on samples from 242 healthy volunteers in the U.S., from such sites as the mouth, nose, skin, intestine and vagina.
Seroxat and the other SSRI antidepressants (including Prozac, Lustral and Ciprimil) may provoke violence in a small number of people who take them, according to a paper published today on the Public Library of Science Medicine website.
Organized under the patronage of UNESCO, the XIIth International Conference on the Public Communication of Science and Technology in Florence (Italy) on 18-20 April drew 670 participants from five continents and gave rise to a staggering 450 presentations.
As described in the journal The Public Library of Science, Evans and his colleagues created the "marathon mice" by modifying the PPAR delta gene and these furry runners provide powerful clues as to how the PPAR delta gene actually works.
The British announcement followed the publication of a report by Dame Janet Finch, a sociologist at the University of Manchester, which recommends encouraging a business model adopted by one of the pioneers of open-access publishing, the Public Library of Science.
The study, published in 2009 in one of the journals of the Public Library of Science, PLoS Computational Biology, also showed that patients who developed diseases that tend to coincide with many others were more likely to die sooner than people whose diseases were more tangentially connected.
The more accurate map of his genome, published Tuesday in The Public Library of Science, an online journal, is most important because it is going to help scientists make many more such maps--and because it opens the door to people being willing to have their genome's sequenced.
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