Word: scientistic
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...most acute hearing, detects cries from the clover speck. He can't see the little Whos, but he deduces, believes, knows that sentient creatures are in there; and his caring instinct tells him that they must be protected. He builds a rapport with the tiny planet's resident scientist, Dr. Hoovey, who is having just as much trouble convincing his villagers that there's a giant outside force, unseen but benevolent, that will determine their future...
...Chen brought Taiwan no closer to true independence. Instead, the island got further isolated within an Asia that is more tightly linked around an expanding China. "We tried to help our sense of Taiwan identity, but it resulted in self-marginalization in the region," says Philip Yang, a political scientist at National Taiwan University in Taipei. As a result, "we believe Taiwan is losing its edge, losing its advantages and losing its chance at long-term prosperity...
...English scientist Michael Faraday and German composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart may seem to be unlikely bedfellows, but their legacies have been combined to surprising effect. A series of concerts by the Fromm Players at Harvard last weekend celebrating “60 Years of Electronic Music” demonstrated how classical music has absorbed technological advancements and how this influential fusion has opened up new possibilities for artistic creation...
Geoengineering has long been the province of kooks, but as the difficulty of reducing greenhouse-gas emissions has become harder to ignore, it is slowly emerging as an option of last resort. The tipping point came in 2006, when the Nobel Prize-winning atmospheric scientist Paul Crutzen published an editorial examining the possibility of releasing vast amounts of sulfurous debris into the atmosphere to create a haze that would keep the planet cool. "Over the past couple of years, it's gone from an outsider thing to something that is increasingly discussed," says Ken Caldeira of the Carnegie Institution...
...getting enough consensus from people who generally look at this thing as to how it helps their favorite candidate. That, in some respects is harder than the money." "This is one of those situation where every solution has the potential for many unintended consequences," said Susan McManus, a political scientist from the University of South Florida in Tampa...