This meeting saw the participation of a substantial number of scientific organizations, programmes and networks active in the field of biodiversity science and taking an interest in the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES).
The main objectives of the Project are to promote practical science experimentation and capacity building for science education, to improve science curricula by inclusion of hands-on experimentation for a better understanding of science and to increase the interest of young people in science so as to promote gender equality, scientific literacy and the choice of a scientific career.
Men (hire, fund, promote themselves), other women and minorities (jealousy, competition, insecurity) and the system (no math or science education, interest, encouragement) are oft cited for the lackluster numbers.
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The Center for Science in the Public Interest voiced their displeasure via a Twitter campaign.
"With clear illustrations, practical experiments, and well-paced text, it makes an interest in science look like fun, " she said.
"It doesn't reflect any concern about public health, " said Michael Jacobson, director of the Center for Science in the Public Interest.
The US Centre for Science in the Public Interest campaigns for Quorn to be withdrawn because of the reported allergic reactions.
That outbreak was associated with 1, 850 reported illnesses, according to a report from the Center for Science in the Public Interest.
"Roughly 92 percent said there's been a noticeable increase in their students' overall interest in science since this program, " he said.
Jacobson, the executive director of the nutrition advocacy group Center for Science in the Public Interest, said in a statement Wednesday.
The ten-week summer program looks for college seniors, recent graduates or graduate students with a background and serious interest in science.
Still, he believes that "Dark Matter" will tap into the innate curiosity of listeners even those with no outward interest in science.
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Chicken and ground beef top a list of "risky meat" published Tuesday by the Center for Science in the Public Interest.
Often mentioned in the same breath as the equally despised Center for Science in the Public Interest, Banzhaf even merits his own hate site, www.banzhafwatch.com.
There appears to be no waning of viewers' interest in science fiction, with Steven Spielberg's alien abduction series Taken giving the Sci Fi Channel its best ratings.
It risks squeezing out space for practical, hands-on experiments, which are vital to help children develop an interest in science from the start of school.
In July, the Center for Science in the Public Interest sued General Mills for allegedly putting artificial ingredients in Nature Valley products marketed as natural.
Michael Jacobson, executive director of the Center for Science in the Public Interest, a nutrition lobby group in Washington DC, said there was a lack of evidence.
Margo Wootan, the director of nutrition policy at the Center for Science in the Public Interest, said the report was consistent with what she has seen in restaurants.
Sarah Klein, food safety attorney for the Center for Science in the Public Interest, said there is no need for consumers to take precautions based on this case.
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.
"Companies still aren't doing nearly enough to support parents and protect kids, " said Margo Wootan, director of nutrition policy for the Center for Science in the Public Interest.
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The Center for Science in the Public Interest has been pressing federal officials for more than 30 years to take measures to reduce salt in packaged and restaurant foods.
The nonprofit advocacy group Center for Science in the Public Interest was one of the groups that released a report in September urging senators to pass the stalled bill.
Imran Khan, director of the Campaign for Science and Engineering (Case), said he was pleased to see that Mr Osborne was taking such a close personal interest in science.
"Amgen essentially purchased the pseudoscience that went into raising these hematocrit guidelines in the medical literature, " bristles Merrill Goozner, a director at the Center for Science in the Public Interest.
The Center for Science in the Public Interest in the U.S. is trying to whack a healthy meat substitute called Quorn, from Marlow Foods in the U.K., a unit of AstraZeneca.
"The UrtheCast camera will support the ISS and continue to inspire youth to pursue advanced studies in space sciences and spark interest in science, technology, engineering and the environment, " says Dr.Williams.
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Companies are legally obliged to inform the FDA of such findings from their own testing, said Caroline Smith DeWaal, director of food safety for Center for Science in the Public Interest.
For a third of a century he and his Center for Science in the Public Interest have been preaching to America's consumers, and to the food manufactures who feed their addictions, to repent.
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