You don't have to be an ethicist or theologian to cringe at the prospect of science's continually extending the life span ("Arguments Over Life and the Need for Death," March 7).
The career training and prospects of biomedical science PhDs have commanded significant attention from the science policy community (Alberts et al., 2014; Daniels, 2015), the popular press (Harris, 2014; Weissman, 2014), and trainees themselves (McDowell et al., 2014; Polka and Krukenberg, 2014).
This is strongly limiting the prospects of neutron science, safeguards, and other applications that rely heavily on 3He-based detectors.
College doesn't always prepare students very well for the work force, and most graduates don't enjoy the relatively rosy job prospects of computer science and engineering majors.
There seem to be a wide and growing range of prospects for science graduates who want to do policy-related work.
The final section briefly considers some of the difficulties and prospects for philosophy of science in Latin America.
The prospect of applying science to the problems of industry served to stimulate public support for science.
And since one day such epistemic oppression must, like all oppression, come to an end, there rises a prospect of "liberatory" science (hence Mr Sokal's joke) that would embrace, for example, feminist, environmentalist and multiculturalist understandings of nature.Don't exaggerateAll that makes a lovely coconut-shy with plenty of hollow shells to aim at.
Something about the prospect of combining science with business fascinates a lot of people.
Such generous funding, combined with the prospect of furthering science in an exciting, emerging market, was hard to turn down.
