Using the tools and trappings of the scientific method as a backdrop, Kannisto expands upon the almost futile efforts of science to catalog the chaos of the rainforest, creating scenes where nature is barely held at bay.
Using the tools and trappings of the scientific method as a backdrop, Kannisto expands upon the almost futile efforts of science to catalog the chaos of the rainforest, creating scenes where nature is barely held at bay. "One cannot adequately describe the various aspects of reality in a rainforest, or express them numerically or visually," Kannisto notes in her book "Fieldwork".
It was An Inconvenient Truth, because the key factor in the climate debate is not the truthfulness of the science, but the futile political war waged against that scientific truth.
Sometimes, though, arguing with a conservative about social issues is less than productive and rather futile, because they refuse to accept science and fact.
Putting humans into space is futile, expensive and ultimately harmful to real science, argue researchers who believe that robot craft represent the future of space exploration and are dismayed by the US's commitment to return to expensive manned missions.
There have been many tedious and futile discussions about the value of philosophy for modern science.
This is indeed problematic because intuitions can be highly misleading and relevant logical impossibilities fairly ungrounded if they cannot be supplemented by relevant theoretical impossibilities based on current science in order to avoid the jump into futile fantasy.
After years of futile assaults from home remedies, folk wisdom and the best that science can offer, the common cold has finally yielded ground.
Attempts to affect the overall rate of development in computer science, neuroscience and chip manufacturing are likely to be futile.
Harris dresses it up in brain science, but looking for Buddha in the brain is as futile as looking for Mozart in a piano.
