MINISTER’S SCIENCE ADVISORY COMMITTEE Looking Ahead: Science Education for the Twenty-First Century A report from the Prime Minister’s Chief Science Advisor April 2011 Science Education for the 21st Century Office of the Prime Minister’s Science Advisory Committee PO Box 108-117‚ Symonds Street‚ Auckland 1150‚ New Zealand Telephone: +64 9 923 1788 Website: www.pmcsa.org.nz Email: csa@pmcsa.org.nz ISBN 978-0-477-10336-7 (paperback) ISBN 978-0-477-10337-4 (PDF) Page ii Science Education
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Cargo cult science is a term used by Richard Feynman to describe a method or idea that imitates the scientific process but is not done for a scientific purpose. In “The Uncertainty of Science” he goes on to clarify that legitimate science accounts for the uncertainties found in science: it is the search for answers‚ faults in methods‚ and data to support theories. However‚ in “Cargo Cult Science” Feynman explains how sometimes “science” is used for personal gain‚ instead of for the benefit of society
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Can science and religion coexist? The contention between science and religion has been an issue of debate for decades. The relationship between religion and science has been a focus of the demarcation problem. Somewhat related is the claim that science and religion may pursue knowledge using different methodologies. The scientific method relies on reason and empiricism while religion acknowledges revelation‚ faith and sacredness. Some scholars said that science and religion should be separate as
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The Relationship between Science and Religion The relationship between science and religion will be analyzed in the following three aspects: conflict‚ compartmentalization and complementariness. Conflict An essential question on our own existence is bound to evoke our curiosity: where did we come from? Charles Darwin‚ in his theory of evolution‚ believed that human being was evolved from apes. However‚ the Genesis in Bible considered that human was created by God. Undoubtedly‚ it is impossible
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STS took shape independently‚ beginning in the 1960s‚ and developed in isolation from each other well into the 1980s‚ although Ludwig Fleck’s monograph (1935) Genesis and Development of a Scientific Fact anticipated many of STS’s key themes: Science studies‚ a branch of the sociology of scientific knowledge that places scientific controversies in their social context. History of technology‚ that examines technology in its social and historical context. Starting in the 1960s‚ some historians
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The Church of Christ‚ Scientist‚ or The Christian Science Church is composed of The First Church of Christ Scientist and smaller branch churches in the world. They all agree on working to fulfill the teaching and vision of Mary Barker Eddy by teaching what her vision of a church was‚ and her understanding of Jesus Christ. Christian Scientists view God as being an “incorporeal Spirit‚ creative Principle‚ supreme‚ omnipotent Father-Mother‚ omnipresent and omniscient”. Human beings are seen as all the
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Science has had a short life when compared to religion. Yet we’ve seen civilizations better themselves a thousandfold since hands unclasped‚ grabbed scientific instruments and started measuring the world. Is science some form of new religion? Or is science different from religion? Debates of this matter have been common since the dawn of science. Articles on their differences‚ similarities and clashings have crept up on society and affected everyone in the western civilization. Most recently‚ religious
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On October 8th‚ 1871‚ fire outburst in a barn that continued until October 10th‚ 1871‚ on a property owned by Patrick and Catherine O’Leary‚ located at on the southwest side of Chicago‚ IL. People knew this event as a devastating event‚ and it was at the time‚ but the city of Chicago had a significant amount of growth after this event. Even though the Chicago Fire of 1871 was devastating‚ the Great Chicago Fire brought economic reform‚ architectural reconstruction‚ and major positive changes for
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Clark County Fire Dept. We are the largest paid fire department in the State of Nevada. We employ 655 Fire Fighters‚ 88 Prevention and Investigation officers‚ 49 Administration‚ Training‚ and Support employees. We are also proud to have Nevada’s largest volunteer force of 200 employees. We operate 29 fire stations with paid employees and 13 volunteer fire stations. The department has jurisdiction over the world-famous Las Vegas Strip and the nation’s 14th largest county. The total service area
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the creation of both the Indian Space Research Organisation and the Physical Research Laboratory (Ahemadabad).Jawaharlal Nehru‚ the first Prime Minister of India (office: 15 August 1947 – 27 May 1964)‚ initiated reforms to promote higher education‚ science‚ technology in India.[2] The Indian Institute of Technology — conceived by a 22 member committee of scholars and entrepreneurs in order to promote technical education — was inaugurated on 18 August 1951 at Kharagpur in West Bengal by then minister
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