"Whether it's improving our health or harnessing clean energy, protecting our security or succeeding in the global economy, our future depends on reaffirming America's role as the world's engine of scientific discovery and technological innovation." - President Barack Obama
See also: Office of Science and Technology Policy
The major subject areas in the sciences, distinguished by topical areas, funding sources, and to some extent research methods as well are:
• Physical Sciences
• Life Sciences
• Social Sciences
• Engineering and Applied Sciences
Science works by producing and testing theories that are provisionally accepted models or "useful fictions" that enable humans to predict how things in the real world will work. Science aims at the systematic elimination of error or falsehood, but can only offer the assurance that its currently standing theories "have yet to be disproved." Claims for science that promise more eventually provoke disappointment and cast the reliability of scientific findings into doubt.
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As the Trump administration's first 100 days draws to a close this week, the White House is planning another flurry of executive orders as it scrambles to prove it’s done stuff. The EOs we’re interested in take aim at Obama's protections on public...
by ClimateDenierRoundup
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As I walked with my friend during the March of Science near Candler Park in Atlanta on Earth Day, April 22, 2017, we talked about how strange it seemed to march for science. My friend is a M.D. working for a government organization in metro Atlanta,...
by AshKG
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Given that even the Wall Street Journal’s editorial board recognizes that the endangerment finding is too solid for Pruitt to tackle, one might think the deniers would focus their energies on more achievable targets.
Well, one would be wrong. Seems...
by ClimateDenierRoundup
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Red Sky at Morning Tuesdays on The After Show means only one thing, it's Tuesday, and the refraction of light on the horizon portends something is a-brewing.
Six Flint, ...
by justiceputnam
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Here’s yet more proof (as if we needed it) on just how dangerous Jeff Sessions is to the American justice system and to the rights of almost everyone in this country. In late April, under the Trump administration, the charter for the National...
by Kelly Macias
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Because extinction is forever, conservation biologists have always shared Andrew Marvell’s urgency: But at my back I always hear Time's wingèd chariot hurrying near. Conservation biology as a term and an interdisciplinary science is only 39 years old...
by Besame
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You know, if there’s one thing that both television and movie script writers love, dey seriously lubs dem some science and CSI. You can’t have a police show or tense courtroom drama without scenes of erstwhile men and women, clad in white or blue...
by Murfster35
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Combine a historically unpopular urine-headed president with a governor and state legislature doing their best to dismantle public education, eliminate women’s clinics, destroy the environment and do away with affordable healthcare, and people are...
by Mother Mags
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I am struggling with what a health care bill should look like. We need to be able to say what we want to change in the ACA and counter the Republicans and Trump with a positive vision of what would happen in health care when we get back in power.
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by chichagof
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The War Memorial
Professor Matthew Buckley – Welcome
Jeff Tittel – NJ Sierra Club
Professor Kimberly Cook-Chennault – Rutgers University Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering
Professor David Hughes – Rutgers University...
by smstern
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There’s a new op-ed in the Wall Street Journal by Steve Koonin that echoes Judith Curry’s recent congressional testimony suggesting that the government fund a “red team” to challenge conventional climate science (characterized as the “blue team”). So...
by ClimateDenierRoundup
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On Earth Day, crowds gathered in the U.S. capital and around the world on Saturday to support science and evidence-based research — a protest partly fueled by opposition to President Donald Trump’s threats of budget cuts to agencies funding scientists’...
by stonehenge
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It's Metaphor Monday on The After Show . This is the day when we call things what they are. No Similes allowed. Not today.
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by justiceputnam
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Every so often I host music title games… in which people alphabetically list songs from a particular pattern, i.e. states/cities, foods, etc.
Tonight I thought I’d do a game based on Science, in honor of the day yesterday.
To play I will...
by BFSkinner
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On the very same day that millions were marching around the country for science three candidates for the school board of Plano (Texas) ISD were standing up for teaching our kids creationism.
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by DemSign
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Yesterday I participated in the Victoria BC satellite March For Science. It was an inspiring event that brought together professional scientists and science enthusiasts in support of evidence based approaches to addressing environmental problems. I...
by MarineChemist
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Welcome to the Sunday edition of the Street Prophets Coffee Hour, an open thread conveniently located at the intersection of Religion and Politics. Having COPD and being a 24/7 caregiver I couldn't ...
by michelewln
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Welcome to The Inoculation Project, an effort to help fund science and math projects in red-state public schools categorized as highest poverty. This week, we’re helping middle school students in Detroit to create a bird and butterfly wildflower garden...
by nomandates
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It turned out to be a great day in Laramie WY, despite the snow we had the day before. We had a crowd of about 400-500 people (not a scientific measurement). Now that may sound small, but keep in mind Laramie is small town of about 30,000 people, and...
by pollwatcher
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If you’re a nerd, you’ve probably heard of Elon Musk’s latest company, Neuralink, a company “developing ultra high bandwidth brain-machine interfaces to connect humans and computers.” If you’re really into this sort of thing, you might have run into...
by Rei
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