Following up on my earlier post about the (urgent) need of religious leaders and theologians to study science.
Dr Heather Williams is a medical physicist working for the NHS and head of ScienceGrrl, an organisation trying to inspire more girls to study science.
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They suggest that the government should give green cards to all foreigners who come to America to study science, technology, engineering or maths.
A-levels, the fewer that go on to study science at university.
The Royal Society said whatever changes were made to the Scottish education system, it should continue to give students the breadth needed to study science and mathematics alongside other subjects.
It is quite effective in creating Science and Technology awareness, helps to foster creativity and integrate the study of science with reading, writing, music, art and the performing arts.
The study and science of architecture has therefore been around for thousands and thousands of years.
Hear more about the study on Science in Action on the BBC World Service.
Another man, age 53, decided to change careers and go back to a local college to study computer science.
In 2011, Brazil launched an initiative to provide 75, 000 scholarships for international study in science and technology by 2014.
But after five years he returned to study sports science at Chester which paved the way for his phenomenal coaching success.
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Only then did she catch the computing bug, enrolling in 1986 at the University of California at Berkeley to study computer science.
He himself was a successful player in his teens and early 20s, having a trial for England Under-19s and going on to study sports science and management at university.
At the same time Siu attended Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) to study computer science, but after a visit to Boston he found the city more fun and more stimulating, and soon transferred to Boston University.
One of the common complaints within the game industry is that not enough women study computer science, and thus the recruiting pool is simply not there, making it impossible to have more than a few female developers to every herd of men.
He decided to go back to school to study political science at the University of Wyoming, and 12 years later at the age of 34 Cheney became the youngest person to hold the position of White House chief of staff in the Gerald Ford administration.
Clarke, visionaries like Carl Sagan and movies like "2001: A Space Odyssey, " he studied aerospace and industrial engineering at Ryerson University, then physics and astronomy at the University of Toronto, before moving to Cornell to study space science, where he became special assistant to Sagan.
Earlier today, a study in Science Translational Medicine proposed that DNA sequencing could become a standard first-choice test for infants in neonatal intensive care units, because a combination of new software and hardware could allow doctors to get results in just 50 hours, answering questions about what is making a baby sick far faster when time is of the essence.
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Science fiction is much more fun to study than real science.
The IEA is probably best known for its Third International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS), an international large-scale assessment of learning outcomes (ILSA) for primary school learners in science and mathematics, as well as for PIRLS (Progress in International Reading Literacy Study).
The trouble for them, however, is that every reputable study -- headed by the most exhaustive of them all, the 1997 National Academy of Science study -- finds that the economic benefits of immigration are very small, fractions of a penny for each dollar of national income, with the largest share of those benefits captured by the immigrants themselves.
The Third International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) was the most ambitious comparative study ever conducted.
For the Science study, participants were asked to rate their happiness on a commonly used three-point scale.
Many scientists will never get a single study published in Science or Nature, the most prestigious scientific journals.
In fact, another recent study posted in Science, concluded that polar ice sheet melting has been massively overestimated.
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The Science study, which came out in June, was led by Ron Fouchier at the Erasmus Medical Center in Rotterdam, Netherlands.
Parents, schools and the government need to encourage young girls to study math and science, in addition to economics and humanities.
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Now, in a study published in Science, the answer is definitive.
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