the nature of science ppt

... waterproof / / wc:tCpru:f / (a): waterproof clothes keep you dry because they do not let rain pass through them: không thm nc a waterproof jacket: áo ves-tông không thm nc 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...

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... one science. Third, a friendly, cooperative attitude should prevail between the promoters of the various sorts of history of science. Then and only then, will the history of knowledge retain the ... Descartes’ vortex theory in dealing with problems such as the return of Halley’s comet, the orbit of the Moon, and the shape of the Earth, that the Continentals shrugged off their antipathy to ... the nature of science because they think that’s what they should be teaching in the classroom, not just the results of scientific research. 12 Nevertheless, a few problems on the borderline of...

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... whole class of story ideas arrives from the other direction: 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 us look at everything from the eyes of flies to the birth of stars, from the bottom of the ocean to the everyday ... as for the rest of us, ideas spark each other off, showing their full size only as they connect. Sometimes it’s hard to know what you think till someone asks the right question or offers one...

Ngày tải lên: 21/01/2014, 08:20

... 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 reader along 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 a commitment to science and the public understanding thereof—upon...

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... too. The researcher will not mind. In fact, the better the scientific team, the more the leaders seem to want to credit the junior Research and the Interview 53 large, basic chunk of knowledge; the ... your troubles a kiss and skootch them over. They will wait. Once in the room, there’s no rush to start. Allow a few moments 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 some other? Why now and not before? Guaranteed, there must have been other ways to approach the issue, so what was the advan- tage of this one? The answers are...

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... inter- views, the machine took enough attention that my rapport with 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 lot by osmosis. Science, the journal of the 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 a throwaway because if you remove it from the sentence, nothing happens. There’s no loss of meaning, only of a chuckle...

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... magnifi- cent island.” Then I considered the essay’s title: The Island at the End of the Earth.” Hmm. In many seagoing cultures, the islands at the end of the world are where the dead and dying ... albatross ap- pears out of the 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 white breasts of king penguins shine against the stones. Nearer, the sun catches the gold ear patches behind the eye of swimming members of...

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... Chameleons can hurl their tongues even farther than salamanders, shooting them twice the length of their bodies in less than a second [by means of a ring of muscle] Rings of muscle aren’t mandatory ... at pre- cisely the point where the next train of thought wants to begin. If you feel the need for a transition, your train has ei- ther gone off on a spur line or stopped short of the station. Even ... the page. The Nitty Gritty of Writing 107 tongues, 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...

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... de-emphasize should go in the middle of the sentence (and paragraph). The middle of the 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 of the paragraph is the place for their equivalent in full sentences. The middle also makes a good home for items that only a few 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...

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... yet, start to work with them on the day of the talk, while you’re still excited. Otherwise the new ideas will evanesce, cast off as wrong or irrelevant by 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, remind yourself 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 story can do two jobs; when the second task...

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... Moreover,inworking out the implications of actions foreseen in the pursuit of the objectives of its vision forthecomingquartercentury,theCGIARitselffindsthathundredsofmillions ofpeople—perhapsnofewerthantoday—willremainseriouslyundernourished orworse.IftheCGIARVisionistobetakenseriouslyasaguidetoactionwithin and ... heritage mostnationsshare,inoneformoranother,istheparableofsevenyearsofplenty followed by seven years of lean. In spite of the lessons of history,cyclical swings in 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...

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... cases the loyalties of the 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 the nature of science 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 of the nineteenth century, the gap between the ‘historical’ Newton, created by the expert community, and the ‘mythical’ Newton, cele- brated by men of science...

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