Contemporary archaeologists of the Bronze Age prefer scientific analysis of potsherds and bones to grand theories.
It is fortunate that Prince Charles, a leader in our world today - whether by inheritance, election or earned reputation, doesn't matter, a leader none the less - has had the foresight and courage to speak up about the dangers of our scientific age.
That world began when Johannes Gutenberg introduced the printing press in 1455, and gave birth along the way to the Reformation, the Age of Reason, the Enlightenment, the Scientific Method, and finally the Industrial Revolution not to mention the modern era of newspapers, universal education and, yes, mass literacy.
At first embraced by the New Age and environmental movement but almost totally ignored by the scientific community, the essential truth of the Gaia hypothesis -- that the Earth regulates itself -- has since been adopted by the scientific mainstream.
The Israel Test describes in riveting detail both the massive contributions of mainly Diaspora Jews to the US victories in World War II and the Cold War and to the scientific revolutions of the 20th century that set the foundations for the computer age, and the massive contributions of Israeli Jews to the digital revolution that defines and shapes our economic realities today.
Scientific studies show that around the age of 40, men also become less fertile.
Scientific studies have shown that human fertility starts declining at the age of 31, which is the age many women are having their first babies.
The mid-19th century, for example, was more of a scientific age.
Moreover, for all the rhetoric of functionalism, even in their own time the most notable 1920s and '30s Bauhaus buildings and objects were really aesthetic explorations of new materials and techniques, or conceptual critiques of life in an industrial age--rather than technological inventions or discoveries in the scientific sense.
And yet, this was the age that revived Aristotle, built upon Indian mathematics, developed the scientific method, and brought about the beginnings of serious study into medicine, chemistry, optics, and most of the other sciences.
The sense of urgency is now heightened by fears that scientific advances in the treatment of diseases could eventually be misused to attack particular ethnic or age groups.
The American Cancer Society and the National Comprehensive Cancer Network, which is a collaboration of America's major cancer centers, have separately commissioned experts to look at the scientific data and issued statements recommending women get a high-quality mammogram annually beginning at age 40.
Another, less-recognized success in an age when information would supposedly be free is Reed Elsevier, the home to specialized legal, medical, scientific and news coverage.
The Center for Reproductive Rights, which filed suit against the age restriction, and other groups have argued that contraceptives are being held to a different and non-scientific standard than other drugs and that politics has played a role in decision-making.
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