DREAMS WITH SHARP TEETH For fans of Harlan Ellison, the angry, provocative science-fiction writer and essayist, this tightly constructed documentary by Erik Nelson is a nasty little dream come true.
This book is provocative pop science, an exploration of the latest thinking about the origins of our universe.
The Stanley Feingold Luncheon Group meets every other month - an argumentative gathering of City College graduates and the provocative political science professor who taught them a half-century ago.
And menstruation, with its accompanying fluctuating levels of the female sex hormone estrogen, can have a considerable effect on how a woman's body responds to the demands of exercise and competition, as a range of provocative new science makes clear.
Clarke's Three Laws Among his legacies are Clarke's Three Laws, provocative observations on science, science fiction and society that were published in his "Profiles of the Future" (1962): "When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right.
"Today one of God's most provocative voices is science".
In a paper just published in the Lancet, with the provocative title "Secret science: tobacco industry research on smoking behaviour and cigarette toxicity", David Hammond, of Waterloo University in Canada and Neil Collishaw and Cynthia Callard, two members of Physicians for a Smoke-Free Canada, a lobby group, criticise the behaviour of British American Tobacco (BAT).
Representatives of industries that have sought to limit restrictions on fossil fuels said the paper poked provocative holes in the science behind the Kyoto plan and other proposals to stem warming.
One of the most provocative and potentially important science issues in recent years is the apparent irreproducibility of scientific studies.
This recent linguistic hegemony presents challenges and opportunities for both non-native and native English speakers, says a provocative new book, Does Science Need a Global Language?
In the absence of provocative art, music, and science, we deplete our souls and are forced to live in a place, like contemporary Mali, in which platitudes have sapped our imaginations, a place in which hope dissipates into the dry air.
