The country's leader, Kim Jong-un, has shown few signs of relaxing the strict controls on civic life imposed by his father and grandfather, but made a point of stressing science and technology during a rare public address on New Year's Day.
By the late 60s he was a pivotal figure in London's underground scene, a point of contact between science fiction novelists such as JG Ballard and Brian Aldiss and the musicians and artists who were transforming British pop culture.
Here, we argue that this is both unwarranted and problematic from a point of view of both science and conservation.
If two people in the same bed can say, at the same time, "I'm freezing!" and, "It's an oven in here," without faith in an objective measurement, the whole point of science is called into question.
In the last two decades or so, bilingualism has become a point of interest for cognitive sciences such as psycholinguistics and neurolinguistics.
Knowledge, the whole point of science, was a product peddled by Satan, and the most potent poison around.
This should give it a unique place in the wider negotiations, and the UK could take advantage of science as a point of agreement in more difficult discussions.
The whole point of science is to provide a trustworthy guide to the future, not a series of hopeful guesses.
"When I hear 'the science is settled,' it's like, I never heard that science actually got to a point where it was — that's the whole point of science, is that you keep asking questions".
That day of actions added a key tool to a previously faltering dialogue: suddenly, ordinary people, organizers, and elected officials had a concrete goal to reach for and a point of entry into the complex science of climate change.
