Philosophers have been left with commentary on the sciences and arts, along with musings on morality whose superiority to anyone else's, when there is any, is due to a higher degree of self-conscious organization of thought rather than to some special knowledge or method.
The results showed for the first time that downwind of pollution sources, clouds are brighter, said Dr. Owen B. Toon, an atmospheric scientist at the University of Colorado at Boulder, who wrote a commentary on the findings in Science.
Szent-Györgyi wrote The Crazy Ape (1970), a critical and pessimistic commentary on science and the prospects for human survival on Earth.
As career academic economists (our only senior public service has been in the research department at the International Monetary Fund) we find these attacks a sad commentary on the politicization of social science research.
For New Zealand, Madagascar and many Pacific islands, few would deny that the first arriving humans caused mass extinction, said Dr. Jared Diamond, an ecologist at the University of California at Los Angeles, who wrote a commentary on the new study in Science.
That can be a boon for some superheavy patients, but it is a sad commentary on the failure of medical science to find a less drastic approach to the nation's bulging weight problem.
In their Times op-ed, R&R were also falsely modest in contending that they are just innocent academic researchers ("We find these attacks a sad commentary on the politicization of social science research") when in fact their work has been cited over and over again by deficit hawks warning of the horrific effects of high public debt with no demurrer from R&R.
His favored vehicle for social commentary is the science fiction movie.
Scientists have yet to determine how those forces arise and the folding occurs, says Striedter, who co-authored a commentary on the paper that also appears in Science.
He was, for example, one of the first Hebrew authors to write a philosophic dialogue, an encyclopedia of science and philosophy, a commentary on the Guide of the Perplexed, and poetic philosophic tales.
