... waterproof //wc:tCpru:f/ (a): waterproof clothes keep you dry because they do not let rain pass through them: không thm nc a waterproof jacket: áo ves-tông không thm nc IN THE KNOW: The ... KNOW: The penguins of Philip Island are very small, as can be seen in the photograph. They are also a tourist attraction. They walk along the same pathways from the sea to their nests every ... _________ in the headphones. 4. First, Soriah fed the cat. Then, she called her mother. Soriah _________ her mother after she _________ the cat. 5. First, Marie did her homework. Then, she...
... one science. Third, afriendly, cooperative attitude should prevail between the promoters ofthe varioussorts of history of science. Then and only then, will the history of knowledge retain the ... Descartes’ vortex theory in dealing with problemssuch as the return of Halley’s comet, the orbit ofthe Moon, and the shape ofthe Earth,that the Continentals shrugged off their antipathy to ... thenatureofscience becausethey think that’s what they should be teaching in the classroom, not just the results of scientific research.12Nevertheless, a few problems on the borderline of...
... whole class of story ideas arrives from the otherdirection: from outside the world of research, in the form of a question, observation, or piece of news.To under-stand the phenomenon then brings ... you get the picture.Spot what appeals to the visual sense. Today’s technology lets uslook at everything from the eyes of flies to the birth of stars,from the bottom ofthe ocean to the everyday ... as for the rest of us, ideas spark each other off, showing theirfull size only as they connect. Sometimes it’s hard to knowwhat you think till someone asks the right question or offersone...
... needs. For example: the Insured, the Uninsured, the Doctor, the Insurance Company, the Taxpayer, the Hospital, the Residents and Medical Stu-dents, the Medical Teachers, the Makers of Medical Parapher-nalia ... it. The beauty of case studies is that they carry the readeralong on the wings of story, to which you can append pods of explanation as needed. At the same time, they anchor is-sues in the ... is the topic of this chapter. But first, let me recommend one more attitude: The science writer and the scientist are allies, sharing acommitment to science and the public understandingthereof—upon...
... too. The researcher will not mind. In fact, the better the scientificteam, the more the leaders seem to want to credit the juniorResearchand the Interview53large, basic chunk of knowledge; the ... yourtroubles a kiss and skootch them over. They will wait.Once in the room, there’s no rush to start. Allow a fewmoments for the two of you to get used to being in the same room, the process that I call ... Why this line of research and not someother? Why now and not before? Guaranteed, there must havebeen other ways to approach the issue, so what was the advan-tage of this one? The answers are...
... inter-views, the machine took enough attention that my rapportwith the other person suffered, plus I often lost track of the content. The problem is that, when I’m typing at the speed of speech, the ... and you’ll get a lotby osmosis. Science, the journal ofthe American Association for the Ad-vancement of Science, is also weekly, and its front section of science news is without peer. Because ... be some kind of big curiosity. Either way is fine.You can tell the phrase is athrowaway because if you remove it from the sentence,nothing happens. There’s no loss of meaning, only of achuckle...
... magnifi-cent island.”Then I considered the essay’s title: The Island at the End of the Earth.” Hmm. In many seagoing cultures, the islandsat the end ofthe world are where the dead and dying ... albatross ap-pears out ofthe east, where high dark coasts open on the ocean horizon and the last sun ray glints on the windy seas of the Drake Passage. The group reaches the island. The author tells ... tears.Below the cliffs are black-rock beaches, and here the whitebreasts of king penguins shine against the stones. Nearer, the sun catches the gold ear patches behind the eye of swimming members of...
... Chameleons canhurl their tongues even farther than salamanders, shootingthem twice the length of their bodies in less than a second[by means of a ring of muscle] Rings of muscle aren’tmandatory ... at pre-cisely the point where the next train of thought wants tobegin. If you feel the need for a transition, your train has ei-ther gone off on a spur line or stopped short ofthe station.Even ... the page. The NittyGritty of Writing107tongues, has been studying a variant of this technique in the African pig-nosed frog The very different tongues of the pig-nosed frog and the marine...
... de-emphasize should go in the middle ofthe sentence (and paragraph). The middle ofthe sen-tence is the place for necessary nothings such as these:however (a slalom flag to mark the unexpected)Dr. ... by the NIH The middle ofthe paragraph is the place for their equivalentin full sentences. The middle also makes a good home for items that only afew readers will need, for whatever reason the ... which to express the primary—mean-ing. Only other writers should notice the high caliber of your writing. The reader should be absorbed in the content.If you feel actual pride, therefore, you...
... yet, start to work with themon the day ofthe talk, while you’re still excited. Otherwise the new ideas will evanesce, cast off as wrong or irrelevantby your older mindset, the one that had you ... Readers lose confidence if they feel that the writer is either ridiculing or flattering the subject.If you fear you may be tipping in either direction, remindyourself of professional norms. Call ... 128)? Get all the small stuff; it may be enough.Do several of your examples do the same job? Pick the best and drop the others. Sometimes one memorable storycan do two jobs; when the second task...
... Moreover,inworking out the implications of actions foreseen in the pursuit ofthe objectives of its visionforthecomingquartercentury,theCGIARitselffindsthathundredsofmillionsofpeople—perhapsnofewerthantoday—willremainseriouslyundernourishedorworse.IftheCGIARVisionistobetakenseriouslyasaguidetoactionwithinand ... heritagemostnationsshare,inoneformoranother,istheparableofsevenyearsofplentyfollowed by seven years of lean. In spite ofthe lessons of history,cyclical swingsin food output persist, and they result from, and further distort, ... 1996. The Economics of Science. Journal of Economic Literature, 3:1199-1262.Yudelman,Montague. 1996. Agricultural Researchin the Tropics: Pastand Future. In The Globali-zationofScience:thePlaceofAgriculturalResearch,editedbyC.Bonte-FriedheimandK.Sheridan.The...
... cases the loyalties ofthe author might be to the development of that eld rather than to the promotion of a particular view of contemporary science and its practitioners. Although there was ... another signi cant theme that relates to thenatureofscience and how it advances. Considera-tion of a gure such as Newton begs the question: are scienti c discoveries the result of a ... that of 1831.By the second half ofthe nineteenth century, the gap between the ‘historical’ Newton, created by the expert community, and the ‘mythical’ Newton, cele-brated by men of science...