The computer science introduction course teaches basic skills by having students build a Google-like search engine, using the programming language Python.
"The technical content of this course is reflected in the fact that our students are awarded a science degree at the end, " said course director John Hughes.
After gorging on bear meat, the expedition's scientists bring back evidence that helps prove the controversial theory of continental drift, which gives rise in due course to the science of plate tectonics, which explains why it was that Krakatoa blew itself up--and will do so again, in eons hence.
The assembled virologists in Malta were told the full data would be published in due course in the journal Science.
This lent a gentler patina to the game, according to James McManus, who teaches a course on the literature and science of poker at the Art Institute of Chicago (nice job, that).
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The same question undoubtedly arose 80 years ago as Vannevar Bush and Karl Taylor Compton at MIT foresaw that the use of national resources to fund science and technology research could change the course of warfare.
Let's say you're in a political science course and the professor mentions how Latinos split their votes between the parties.
And of course, the science is not there to make a link between what's happening in this field and cancer, but you wonder.
This is the realm of science fiction, of course.
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As for the idea that Big Science is protecting the status quo, well, sure, of course there will be push back when something comes along that defies all known principles.
Of course, the fact that science has not, to date, shown conclusively that chocolate - pure or impure, in bar-form or egg-shaped - causes acne is unlikely to stop adults using the threat of spots to try and slow down their children's intake.
The prize, one of the largest in medicine and science in the United States, is awarded to those who have changed the course of medical research.
The bots, of course, are the puppet co-stars of the cult classic TV series Mystery Science Theater 3000, which typically featured them silhouetted in front of a movie screen with their human pal Joel (played by Joel Hodgson).
To some degree, of course, the divide between magic and science is also the divide between Mulder and Scully.
When the Stanford computer science professor offered a graduate-level course on artificial intelligence for free online last year, 160, 000 people from 190 different countries signed up.
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The course has won funding from the National Science Foundation.
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That's an MRI scan of New York Times writer Matt Richtel's brain that was captured while he played a simple driving game -- all in the name of science (and journalism), of course.
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The Ministry of Education, Sports and Culture is working with the National University of Samoa with support from UNESCO to develop an in-service course for secondary science teachers which will be conducted early in 2013 by lecturers at the National University of Samoa.
Bradbury, of course, became one of the most celebrated science-fiction writers.
But of course it is not an exact science with the researchers admitting they can only give "best estimates".
The course aims to bring climate change education outside the science classroom into all subject areas liable to be affected by climate change.
Of course, any guidelines are only as good as the science that underlies them.
There are many, of course, who think religion is irrelevant to the progress of science.
Computer Science was designed more appropriately for the online space than the Game Theory course.
His father, a prosperous hotel owner, had no objection and sent him to Harvard, where he got a science degree, and then to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for a course in aeronautical engineering.
We do have to make a couple of assumptions of course, the first being that the European Union has got its science right, the second that they have got their costs right.
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There are several institutions offering surf-related courses - including a three-year surf science and technology degree at the University of Plymouth and a three-year course in surf and beach management at Swansea Institute of Higher Education.
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On the related point: Of course newspapers and other breaking news media are going to sensationalize science and make errors of fact and emphasis.
Entrepreneurship should be a required course in every school around the world, alongside traditional subjects such as math, science and language.
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