Mission Science

Author : Naomi Oreskes
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022673241X
Total Pages : 749 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Science on a Mission written by Naomi Oreskes and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2021-04-19 with total page 749 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A vivid portrait of how Naval oversight shaped American oceanography, revealing what difference it makes who pays for science. What difference does it make who pays for science? Some might say none. If scientists seek to discover fundamental truths about the world, and they do so in an objective manner using well-established methods, then how could it matter who’s footing the bill? History, however, suggests otherwise. In science, as elsewhere, money is power. Tracing the recent history of oceanography, Naomi Oreskes discloses dramatic changes in American ocean science since the Cold War, uncovering how and why it changed. Much of it has to do with who pays. After World War II, the US military turned to a new, uncharted theater of warfare: the deep sea. The earth sciences—particularly physical oceanography and marine geophysics—became essential to the US Navy, which poured unprecedented money and logistical support into their study. Science on a Mission brings to light how this influx of military funding was both enabling and constricting: it resulted in the creation of important domains of knowledge but also significant, lasting, and consequential domains of ignorance. As Oreskes delves into the role of patronage in the history of science, what emerges is a vivid portrait of how naval oversight transformed what we know about the sea. It is a detailed, sweeping history that illuminates the ways funding shapes the subject, scope, and tenor of scientific work, and it raises profound questions about the purpose and character of American science. What difference does it make who pays? The short answer is: a lot.

Author : Carine Dujardin
Publisher : Leuven University Press
ISBN 13 : 9462700346
Total Pages : 441 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mission & Science written by Carine Dujardin and published by Leuven University Press. This book was released on 2015-03-26 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Science as an instrument to justify religious missions in secular society The relationship between religion and science is complex and continues to be a topical issue. However, it is seldom zoomed in on from both Protestant andCatholic perspectives. By doing so the contributing authors in this collection gain new insights into the origin and development of missiology. Missiology is described in this book as a “project of modernity,” a contemporary form of apologetics. “Scientific apologetics” was the way to justify missions in a society that was rapidly becoming secularized. Mission & Sciencedeals with the interaction between new scientific disciplines (historiography, geography, ethnology, anthropology, linguistics) and new scientific insights (Darwin’s evolutionary theory, heliocentrism), as well as the role of the papacy and what inspired missionary practice (first in China and the Far East and later in Africa). The renewed missiology has in turn influenced the missionary practice of the twentieth century, guided by apostolic policy. Some “missionary scholars” have even had a significant influence on the scientific discourse of their time.

Author : Marsha Qualey
Publisher : Capstone
ISBN 13 : 1496561848
Total Pages : 41 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mission Science Club written by Marsha Qualey and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2018-08 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The after-school science club is just starting, and Beatrice Honey Flinn, who is called Bumble B, and her best friends are joining, but when Mr. Dan separates the students into teams, Bumble B finds herself paired off with two children she does not know, Jasmine and Otto, instead of her friends--and their assignment is to make a list of all the animals, insects, plants, and rocks they find in the playground.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Geopotential Research Mission, Science, Engineering, and Program Summary written by and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Keith Snedegar
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 0739196251
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mission, Science, and Race in South Africa written by Keith Snedegar and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2015-09-17 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lost in the Stars is a biographical study of Alexander William Roberts, a Free Church of Scotland missionary educator who in 1883 was posted to the Lovedale Institution at Alice, South Africa. Inspired by the night sky of the southern hemisphere, Roberts became a leading observer of variable stars and an early contributor to the theory of close interacting binary stars. He actively promoted the development of colonial scientific culture and was elected president of the South African Association for the Advancement of Science in 1913. His teaching career at Lovedale fostered a commitment to the interests of his African students and their communities. In 1920 Roberts was appointed to the South African senate to represent “native” Africans; he also served as senior member of the Native Affairs Commission. Despite his liberal instincts he acquiesced to the movement toward racial segregation as advanced in the Natives (Urban Areas) and Native Administration Acts. Roberts nonetheless militated against the erosion of the Cape non-racial franchise rights; he resigned from the Native Affairs Commission just as the all-white parliament was poised to remove Africans from the common voters’ roll. His engagement with the politics of race interfered with Roberts’s astronomical research. Although he published nearly one hundred papers in scientific journals most of his observational data remained unknown until the Boyden Observatory’s Roberts archive was digitized in 2006. His influence as a mission educator also has been little known, although among his pupils were journalist and academic D.D.T. Jabavu, the physician James Moroka, and Swazi king Sobhuza I.

Author : Mukul Sahgal
Publisher : S. Chand Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9352838173
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Science Mission 3 written by Mukul Sahgal and published by S. Chand Publishing. This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Series of books for class 3 to 8 provide complete coverage of the NCERT syllabus prescribed by Central Board of Secondary Education(CBSE).The main goal that this series aspires to accomplish is to help students understand difficult scientific concepts in a simple manner and in an easy language.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Mars Science Laboratory Mission written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309297680
Total Pages : 95 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Review of the Draft 2014 Science Mission Directorate Science Plan written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2013-12-02 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NASA's Science Mission Directorate (SMD) is engaged in the final stages of a comprehensive, agency-wide effort to develop a new strategic plan at a time when its budget is under considerable stress. SMD's Science Plan serves to provide more detail on its four traditional science disciplines - astronomy and astrophysics, solar and space physics (also called heliophysics), planetary science, and Earth remote sensing and related activities - than is possible in the agency-wide Strategic Plan. Review of the Draft 2014 Science Mission Directorate Science Plan comments on the responsiveness of SMD's Science Plan to the National Research Council's guidance on key science issues and opportunities in recent NRC decadal reports. This study focuses on attention to interdisciplinary aspects and overall scientific balance; identification and exposition of important opportunities for partnerships as well as education and public outreach; and integration of technology development with the science program. The report provides detailed findings and recommendations relating to the draft Science Plan.

Author : Mukul Sahgal
Publisher : S. Chand Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9352834380
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Science Mission 7 written by Mukul Sahgal and published by S. Chand Publishing. This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Series of books for class 3 to 8 provide complete coverage of the NCERT syllabus prescribed by Central Board of Secondary Education(CBSE).The main goal that this series aspires to accomplish is to help students understand difficult scientific concepts in a simple manner and in an easy language.

Author : Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission. Science Steering Group
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Report of the Science Steering Group for a Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) written by Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission. Science Steering Group and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM), a satellite program now being studied jointly by the United States and Japan, would carry out the systematic study of tropical rainfall required for major strides in weather and climate research ... This report presents the scientific justification for TRMM and outlines the implementation process for the scientific community."--Preface.