The expression "science-based guidelines," if taken literally, is a contradiction in terms.
He told me that even though writers have used the expression "rocket science" to mean a great, complex type of intelligence, "rocket science is in many ways simpler than medical research and disease management.
DOES the current crisis prove that the expression "financial science" is an oxymoron?
No wonder the chart, the very expression of science's search for pattern, has become a cultural icon, with knockoffs like the Periodic Table of the Fruits and Nuts sold in novelty shops.
Perhaps because preservice teacher education programs already provide solid training in these content areas, Singapore kindergarten teachers prefer to further their learning in other domains such as the arts (Aesthetics and Creative Expression) and science (Discovery of the World).
And we have developed our own ways to celebrate this expression of science and spirituality.
Examples of groups from the 2011 STAR included cell biology/gene expression, ecology/environmental science, physiology/anatomy, and biochemistry.
It is not by chance that we will have to wait for the middle of the 20th Century before one speaks of palliative 'medicine' in hospices which had been created and mostly still managed as charities at a time when hospitals had long since been considered an expression of science and of the public health service.
Possible applications of these biosensors range from diagnosis of genetic diseases [ 1], detection of infectious agents [ 2], study of genetic predisposition [ 3], development of a personalised medicine, detection of differential genetic expression, forensic science [ 4], drug screening [ 5], food safety [ 6], or even environmental monitoring [ 7].
If medicine is, to use Lewis Thomas's felicitous expression, "the youngest science," then how might we apply the fruits of basic science to the neglected diseases of poverty? 9, 10 It's not merely polemic to note that all diseases that affect primarily the poor are, by definition, neglected.
