sci

Food Standards Agency appoints new Chief Scientific Adviser

The Food Standards Agency has appointed Professor Robin May as its Chief Scientific Adviser (CSA).




sci

Jurassic Park was WRONG: Raptors did not hunt in packs, scientists find



JURASSIC Park has proved to be wrong about the fearsome velociraptors, as scientists reveal they did not hunt in packs.




sci

Dean, Engineering, Math and Physical Sciences

The Dean of Engineering, Math and Physical Sciences is responsible for the leadership, organization and administration of the Division and provides oversight and support for all academic programs in the Division. There are thirteen (13) career programs and six (6) transfer programs housed within the




sci

TS/SCI DevOps Engineer

Position: TS/SCI Mid-Level DevOps Engineer Location: Alexandria, VA Clearance: TS/SCI Required XTS Needs Experienced DevOps Engineers for a New, Innovative Project to Build a Data Lake for the Intelligence Community! Email Robert.Chambers@xts-inc.com if interested or apply here. Description




sci

Professor Lockdown confounded science, says CAROLE MALONE



WHY was it the fact that Professor Neil Ferguson couldn't keep it in his pants heralded his sacking not his disastrous doomsday projections that forced this country into a financially crippling lockdown?




sci

CDC scientists overruled in White House push to restart airport fever screenings for COVID-19

Airport temperature screenings mark latest discord between Trump administration and CDC over federal coronavirus response and science of public health

      




sci

Retro Indy: Science fairs to remember

The Indianapolis News was a sponsor of the Central Indiana Regional Science Fairs.

       




sci

Science: Solar Eclipse 科学:日全食

Take Away English reports on the total solar eclipse? Did you witness this extremely rare event?




sci

Portillo's brings back its luscious lemon cake for limited time

Indy residents just getting acquainted with Portillo's Chicago-style hotdogs will get to try another new delicacy starting Tuesday: lemon cake

      




sci

Social distancing and coronavirus: The science behind the two-metre rule

Ministers are reportedly considering relaxing the two-metre rule for social distancing in workplaces.




sci

Scientists may never find virus 'missing link' species

The identity of the "intermediate host" animal that first passed the coronavirus to a human may never be found, say scientists.




sci

Coronavirus mutations: Scientists puzzle over impact

A study has identified a mutation that its authors say could make the coronavirus more infectious.




sci

Scientists explain magnetic pole's wanderings

The North Magnetic Pole has been racing across the top of the world, from Canada towards Siberia.




sci

Scientists obtain 'lucky' image of Jupiter

The Hawaii-based Gemini telescope produces a super-sharp picture of the gas giant in the infrared.





sci

Gadgets taking inspiration from science fiction

Though the watch was invented centuries ago and cars 100 years ago, it has not stopped innovators trying to improve existing gadgets.




sci

‘7th Sector’: An inspired sci-fi game from the point of view of a spark




sci

Practical Statistics for Data Scientists

Statistical methods are a key part of data science, yet few data scientists have formal statistical training. Courses and books on basic statistics rarely cover the topic from a data science perspective. The second edition of this popular guide adds comprehensive examples in Python, provides practical guidance on applying statistical methods to data science, tells you how to avoid their misuse, and gives you advice on what’s important and what’s not.




sci

Data Science on AWS

If you use data to make critical business decisions, this book is for you. Whether you’re a data analyst, research scientist, data engineer, ML engineer, data scientist, application developer, or systems developer, this guide helps you broaden your understanding of the modern data science stack, create your own machine learning pipelines, and deploy them to applications at production scale.




sci

Scientist Behind Social Distancing Breaks Own Rules To Cheat with Married Woman, Resigns

The health expert who helped shaped Britain’s lockdown policies in response to the coronavirus has resigned after admitting he broke his own rules by having his married lover visit him at his home. Professor Neil Ferguson, 51, of Imperial College in London was a prominent member of the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies. The Telegraph…

The post Scientist Behind Social Distancing Breaks Own Rules To Cheat with Married Woman, Resigns appeared first on The Western Journal.





sci

COVID-19 outbreak at Health Sciences Centre declared over

Health officials with the Manitoba government announced on Friday that a COVID-19 outbreak at the Health Sciences Centre has officially been declared over.




sci

Let's talk about the interregnum: Gramsci and the crisis of the liberal world order

7 May 2020 , Volume 96, Number 3

Milan Babic

The liberal international order (LIO) is in crisis. Numerous publications, debates and events have time and again made it clear that we are in the midst of a grand transformation of world order. While most contributions focus on either what is slowly dying (the LIO) or what might come next (China, multipolarity, chaos?), there is less analytical engagement with what lies in between those two phases of world order. Under the assumption that this period could last years or even decades, a set of analytical tools to understand this interregnum is urgently needed. This article proposes an analytical framework that builds on Gramscian concepts of crisis that will help us understand the current crisis of the LIO in a more systematic way. It addresses a gap in the literature on changing world order by elaborating three Gramsci-inspired crisis characteristics—processuality, organicity and morbidity—that sketch the current crisis landscape in a systematic way. Building on this framework, the article suggests different empirical entry points to the study of the crisis of the LIO and calls for a research agenda that takes this crisis seriously as a distinct period of changing world orders.




sci

A new profile of Steve Biko, father of Black Consciousness

9 December 2013 , Volume 69, Number 11

Xolela Mangcu Biko: A Life (IB Taurus, £12.99)

Benjamin Pogrund,

Biko.jpg

Biko's significance stretches far beyond the brutality of his death. Photo: Mark Peters/Getty




sci

Let's talk about the interregnum: Gramsci and the crisis of the liberal world order

7 May 2020 , Volume 96, Number 3

Milan Babic

The liberal international order (LIO) is in crisis. Numerous publications, debates and events have time and again made it clear that we are in the midst of a grand transformation of world order. While most contributions focus on either what is slowly dying (the LIO) or what might come next (China, multipolarity, chaos?), there is less analytical engagement with what lies in between those two phases of world order. Under the assumption that this period could last years or even decades, a set of analytical tools to understand this interregnum is urgently needed. This article proposes an analytical framework that builds on Gramscian concepts of crisis that will help us understand the current crisis of the LIO in a more systematic way. It addresses a gap in the literature on changing world order by elaborating three Gramsci-inspired crisis characteristics—processuality, organicity and morbidity—that sketch the current crisis landscape in a systematic way. Building on this framework, the article suggests different empirical entry points to the study of the crisis of the LIO and calls for a research agenda that takes this crisis seriously as a distinct period of changing world orders.




sci

Spectral Properties of Differential Operators with Oscillating Coefficients

N. F. Valeev, Ya. T. Sultanaev and É. A. Nazirova
Trans. Moscow Math. Soc. 80 (2020), 153-167.
Abstract, references and article information




sci

Citizen science project aims to reveal secret life of bees

In these unprecedented times, we are all spending much more time at home and in our gardens. And, now that spring has well and truly arrived, it's the perfect time to get reacquainted with one of our country's busiest workers - the bee.




sci

How modelling articulates the science of climate change

To imagine earth without greenhouse gases in its atmosphere is to turn the familiar blue marble into a barren lump of rock and ice on which the average surface temperature hovers around -18ºC. Such a planet would not receive less of the sunlight which is the ultimate source of all Earth's warmth. But when the energy it absorbed from the sunlight was re-emitted as infrared radiation, as the laws of physics require, it would head unimpeded back out into space.




sci

CBD News: Statement by the Executive Secretary Mr. Ahmed Djoghlaf on "Biological Diversity, Well-being and Sustainable Society" at the Sixth International Conference on Science and Technology for Sustainability 2008, 12 September 2008, Tokyo, Ja




sci

CBD News: Message from COP 9 President: Bringing Science to Politics: Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services.




sci

CBD News: Statement by Mr. Ahmed Djoghlaf, Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity, at the Ad Hoc Intergovernmental and Multi-Stakeholder Meeting on an Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services,




sci

CBD News: Statement by the Executive Secretary, Dr. Ahmed Djoghlaf, on the occasion of the 9th National Conference on Science, Policy and the Environment organized by the National Council for Science and Environment on the theme of Biodiversity in a Rapid




sci

CBD News: Statement delivered on behalf of the Convention on Biological Diversity, at the Thirtieth Meeting of the Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change under Agenda Item 3: Na




sci

CBD News: Statement delivered on behalf of the Convention on Biological Diversity, at the Thirtieth Meeting of the Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change under Agenda Item 10: C




sci

CBD News: Inviting Parties, other Governments, other relevant organizations, and indigenous and local communities, to the peer review of the draft report of scientific synthesis on the impacts of ocean fertilization on marine biodiversity.




sci

CBD News: The Executive Secretary of the CBD invites you to participate in the peer review of the draft report of scientific synthesis on ocean acidification and its impacts on marine biodiversity and habitats. Please submit your comments and suggestions




sci

CBD News: Statement by Ahmed Djoghlaf, Executive Secretary, at the Expert Workshop on Scientific and Technical Guidance on the Use of Biogeographic Classification Systems and Identification of Marine Areas in Need of Protection beyond National Jurisdictio




sci

CBD News: Second Ad Hoc Intergovernmental and Multi-Stakeholder Meeting on an Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services.




sci

CBD News: New CBD publication on forests and climate change: Technical Series No. 43, "Forest Resilience, Biodiversity, and Climate Change", a synthesis report based on over 400 scientific articles about forest stability, health, and biodiversit




sci

CBD News: Statement by Mr. Ahmed Djoghlaf, Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity, on the occasion of the Expert Workshop on Scientific and Technical Aspects relevant to Environmental Impact Assessment in Marine Areas beyond Nationa




sci

CBD News: Statement by Mr Ahmed Djoghlaf, Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity, on the occasion of the UNESCO International Year of Biodiversity Science-Policy Conference, 25 January 2010, Paris, France.




sci

CBD News: Discours par M. Ahmed Djoghlaf, Secrétaire exécutif de la Convention sur la diversité biologique, à l'occasion du lancement du Centre de la science de la biodiversité du Québec (CSBQ), 15 février 2010, Mont




sci

CBD News: Statement by Mr. Ahmed Djoghlaf, Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity, on the occasion of Integrated Research System for Sustainability Science (IR3S) Public Symposium to Commemorate the International Year of Biodiversit




sci

CBD News: Statement by Mr Ahmed Djoghlaf, Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity, on the occasion of the Meeting on "Biodiveristy in Science and Art", 10 March 2010 Florence, Italy.




sci

CBD News: Message by Mr. Ahmed Djoghlaf, Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity, on the occasion of the First International Conference of ATUTAX, the Association Tunisienne de Taxonomie, Cité des Sciences de Tunis, 23-25 April




sci

CBD News: Statement by Ahmed Djoghlaf, Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity, at the Opening Session of the Fourteenth Meeting of the Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice, 10 May, 2010, UNEP, Nairobi.




sci

CBD News: Statement by Ahmed Djoghlaf, Executive Secretary of the Convention On Biological Diversity, on the occasion of the Third Ad Hoc Intergovernmental and Multi Stakeholder Meeting on An Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and E




sci

CBD Communiqué: Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh joins CBD Consortium of Scientific Partners




sci

CBD Press Release: Missouri Botanical Garden Joins Convention on Biological Diversity Consortium of Scientific Partners - Garden Will Be Central to the Implementation of the Global Strategy for Plant Conservation.




sci

CBD Communiqué: Expanding scientific expertise for the implementation of the new Strategic Plan of the Convention on Biological Diversity.