The purpose of these various agencies was, and remains to provide access to data that will help us citizens, food consumers, with a greater depth of background, science, and other information pointed at telling us what we should buy by making it easier (read, again, more convenient) for people to make better food choices.
The flow of news releases and background science content from NASA is generally excellent, but the space agency badly blew it earlier this week with this headline, which has now reverberated around the Web: "Satellites See Unprecedented Greenland Ice Sheet Surface Melt".
"It was only because of my background in science and technology studies, which encourages me to look deep down into how science is done and take it apart, that I was able to find this," Greenhalgh said.
Any student with an interest in being part of a FinTech startup, regardless of background (legal, financial, computer science, operations, etc). should apply, individually or as part of a team.
"Because of my background in science, what I really like is the process," she said.
I read Bill Bryson's A Short History of Nearly Everything so thought I'd try Hawking's book to remind myself of my background in science - I did physics, chemistry and maths A-levels.
Clovis, who possesses a bachelor's degree in political science, an MBA and a doctorate in public administration, repeatedly acknowledged his lack of background in the hard sciences when responding to Stabenow.
Clovis, who possesses a bachelor's degree in political science, an MBA degree and a doctorate in public administration, repeatedly acknowledged his lack of background in the hard sciences when responding to Stabenow.
Now, four people with a variety of backgrounds — in computer science, art, math and design — have banded together in Brooklyn to rethink how programming is taught.
Many studies have documented that students from a variety of backgrounds in undergraduate science courses experience feelings of exclusion, competitiveness, and alienation (Tobias, 1990; Seymour and Hewitt, 1997; Johnson, 2007).
Because of the diversity of the participants, no background in science was presupposed.
