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We're starting to see a renaissance of investors embracing the idea that scientists can build businesses.
Ryan Bethencourt
Build
Embracing
See
Investors
Idea
Renaissance
Scientists
Businesses
Starting
RIKEN has attracted numerous outstanding scientists from inside and outside Japan, and these people have achieved creative and outstanding results.
Ryoji Noyori
Creative
People
Numerous
Inside
Results
Outside
Outstanding
Attracted
Scientists
Achieved
Japan
As soon as a handful of scientists come up with an intervention shown to influence aging in other species, they begin selling it as an intervention for humans, even though there may not be evidence it works.
S. Jay Olshansky
Other
Intervention
Evidence
Though
Soon
Come
Scientists
Handful
Up
Selling
Begin
May
Influence
Aging
Works
Shown
Even
Species
Humans
Many scientists have been drawn to Buddhism out of a sense that the Western tradition has delivered an impoverished conception of basic, human sanity. In the West, if you speak to yourself out loud all day long, you are considered crazy. But speaking to yourself silently - thinking incessantly - is considered perfectly normal.
Sam Harris
Day
Crazy
You
Yourself
Speak
Long
Sense
Thinking
Considered
All Day
Drawn
Out
Delivered
Buddhism
Perfectly
Conception
Scientists
Tradition
Been
West
Impoverished
Normal
Western
Loud
Human
Sanity
Speaking
Incessantly
Many
Basic
It is time that scientists and other public intellectuals observed that the contest between faith and reason is zero-sum.
Sam Harris
Faith
Time
Other
Observed
Between
Contest
Scientists
Intellectuals
Public
Reason
Zero-Sum
Some scientists claim - although these claims are contentious - that they can form deadly isomers with simple X-rays and that hafnium can multiply the power of these X-rays to an astounding degree, converting them into gamma rays up to 250 times more potent than the X-rays.
Sam Kean
Simple
Degree
Power
Astounding
Claim
Claims
Some
More
Potent
Rays
Deadly
Although
Scientists
Up
Times
Than
Form
Converting
Them
Gamma
Multiply
Scientists didn't discover the noble gas helium - the second most common element in the universe - on Earth until 1895. And they thought it existed in minute quantities only, until miners found a huge underground cache in Kansas in 1903.
Sam Kean
Thought
Universe
Earth
Miners
Minute
Only
Noble
Most
Until
Underground
Quantities
Scientists
Discover
Existed
Huge
Common
Kansas
Helium
Element
Found
Gas
Second
The amygdala plays a crucial role in processing fear, and minus her two amygdalae, S.M. became unflappable. Studies of her are actually a hoot to read, since they basically consist of scientists concocting ever-more-elaborate ways of trying to scare her.
Sam Kean
Fear
Consist
Ways
Hoot
Scare
Minus
Crucial
Studies
Since
Read
Became
Scientists
Role
Trying
Processing
Her
Actually
Basically
Two
Plays
Things look especially bleak for common killers such as diabetes and heart disease. Those ailments clearly have a genetic component. But when scientists survey genes looking for which mutations patients have in common, they come up empty.
Sam Kean
Heart
Diabetes
Looking
Those
Mutations
Component
Bleak
Clearly
Genes
Genetic
Come
Look
Empty
Scientists
Heart Disease
Up
Survey
Disease
Common
Patients
Which
Things
Scientists have continued to tinker with different elements and have learned new ways to store and deliver energy.
Sam Kean
Energy
Ways
Deliver
New
Learned
Scientists
Continue
Tinker
New Ways
Different
Store
Different Elements
Elements
Scientists use satellites to track weather, map ice sheet melting, detect diseases, show ecosystem change... the list goes on and on. I think nearly every scientific field benefits or could benefit from satellite imagery analysis.
Sarah Parcak
Change
Benefits
Weather
Field
Every
Think
Analysis
Benefit
Melting
Detect
Could
Ecosystem
Track
Sheet
Scientific
Scientists
Diseases
Goes
List
Ice
Use
Show
Satellite
Map
Satellites
Nearly
Imagery
True-crime shows and podcasts aren't the only ones flattening the complexity of forensic science into easy-to-grasp narratives: journalists do so, too. They say DNA or trace evidence 'matches' a suspect, when scientists can't be so definitive.
Sarah Weinman
Science
Too
Say
Evidence
Definitive
Complexity
Only
Journalists
Trace
Matches
Narratives
Scientists
Forensic
Suspect
Shows
They Say
If every sector of business and society will be driven by software - how does that get enabled? By highly-paid computer scientists funded by risk capital in Silicon Valley? Or by lots of engineers who can build it themselves?
Satya Nadella
Business
Will
Build
Every
Society
Software
Valley
Sector
Silicon
Silicon Valley
Risk
Computer
Driven
Does
How
Scientists
Lots
Get
Capital
Themselves
Engineers
Who
You may not see massive UFO exhibits at your local science museum, but there's no dearth of saucer stories infesting my email. Every day, I receive several reports of alien sightings, extraterrestrial plans for Earth, and agitated screeds about the reluctance of scientists to take the whole subject seriously.
Seth Shostak
Day
You
Science
Every Day
Seriously
Alien
Every
Local
Extraterrestrial
Earth
Email
Several
See
About
Reluctance
Take
Massive
Scientists
Dearth
Subject
Reports
May
Stories
Your
Plans
Whole
Receive
Museum
It's worth noting that invoking God as the entity who set our universe in motion isn't contradicted by the data. Of course, scientists would say the supreme being hypothesis is faith, and outside the realm of science - that it's not amenable to experiment. But we currently have the same problem with the notion of parallel universes.
Seth Shostak
God
Faith
Science
Problem
Worth
Experiment
Universe
Our
Say
Would
Parallel
Data
Entity
Outside
Hypothesis
Invoking
Supreme
Supreme Being
Course
Motion
Scientists
Amenable
Same
Currently
Being
Realm
Noting
Notion
Who
Universes
Set
In general, when moviemakers talk to scientists, they usually see them as a resource to solve particular technical problems or script problems for them. So, something like: what sort of weaponry would aliens be able to wield?
Seth Shostak
Problems
Alien
Resource
Would
Solve
Weaponry
See
Able
Something
General
Particular
Like
Talk
Sort
Scientists
Script
Them
Technical
Wield
Here's a news flash: scientists can be wrong. That's no big deal (unless the scientist is you), since research is self-correcting. Consequently, most errors by scientists become historical curiosities, with little long-term importance.
Seth Shostak
News
You
Big
Become
Research
Unless
No Big Deal
Wrong
Long-Term
Since
Importance
Most
Deal
Scientist
Scientists
Big Deal
Historical
Errors
Curiosities
Flash
Little
Here
Consequently
'Black Panther' had a whole cast of beautiful black brilliance. Black scientists. Black presidents. The style. The technology. The color.
Shaun King
Beautiful
Technology
Black
Style
Panther
Presidents
Cast
Color
Had
Scientists
Whole
Brilliance
I think that we scientists are seeking an understanding of the natural world. We come in various types - chemists and physicists and biologists and such - and we all have the same goal. We are making progress.
Sheldon Lee Glashow
Natural
World
Progress
Understanding
Think
Types
Seeking
Various
Physicists
Come
Making
Scientists
Goal
Same
Natural World
Biologists
Muzzling our leading scientists benefits no one.
Sheldon Whitehouse
Benefits
Our
No-One
Leading
Scientists
Researchers should always consider ethical concerns on scientific research and disclose their data to the public. Scientists also need to discuss issues surrounding their research with those who are concerned.
Shinya Yamanaka
Disclose
Research
Consider
Those
Data
Also
Concerned
Concerns
Scientific
Always
Scientific Research
Scientists
Issues
Surrounding
Discuss
Public
Ethical
Should
Researchers
Who
Need
Our ancient yogis and sages were not just medical healers, but systems scientists and systems engineers, who saw the body and the universe as an interconnected engineering system, a system of systems that are governed by fundamental engineering systems principles.
Shiva Ayyadurai
Engineering
Universe
Our
Saw
System
Ancient
Systems
Healers
Principles
Scientists
Governed
Were
Just
Interconnected
Body
Engineers
Who
Fundamental
Medical
The mystique associated with the bomb, the role that scientists played in it, and its general importance could not fail to impress even a six-year old.
Sidney Altman
Old
Impress
General
Could
Mystique
Fail
Importance
Scientists
Role
Even
Bomb
Played
Associated
Strangely enough, politics may just be the one realm in which having kids imposes no penalty on women. Kids are practically a necessity. For scientists, or Supreme Court justices, or chief executives, or the woman who wants to learn to fly F-l8s off an aircraft carrier, it works differently.
Stacy Schiff
Politics
Woman
Women
Fly
Just Be
Enough
Aircraft
Penalty
Kids
Carrier
Having
Supreme
Supreme Court
Learn
Practically
Executives
Court
Scientists
Off
Chief
May
Just
Wants
Which
Justices
Realm
Strangely
Who
Works
Differently
Necessity
It is crucial for scientists to be willing to be wrong; otherwise, you might not do the most important experiments, or you may ignore your most important findings.
Stanley B. Prusiner
You
Important
Otherwise
Willing
Crucial
Wrong
Most
Scientists
May
The Most Important
Experiments
Might
Your
Ignore
From the point of view of many scientists, gods represent an explanation for the unknown. Scientists are focused on trying to understand the unknown, so there is a fundamental conflict. That said, some scientists find religion useful and perhaps even fulfilling.
Stanley B. Prusiner
Religion
Conflict
Unknown
Focused
Find
Some
Point
Point Of View
Perhaps
Understand
Said
Scientists
Trying
Gods
Represent
Explanation
Fulfilling
View
Useful
Many
Even
Fundamental
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