I attempted to consider two conceptions of scientific inquiry, one of which (science as agent of technological mastery) has come to dominate the other (science as critical examination of our current practices).
With respect to supporting learning of emergent science phenomena, agent-based modeling holds immense potential.
According to the Post, FBI policy for the past 40 years has been that hair matching is not a substantial enough way to identify a suspect (it has never been a definite science), but agents have testified to the contrary when placed on the stand.
The multiplicity of meanings and goals linked to ETAT+ training resonates with the subjective interpretation of science by agents in other studies [ 33].
Is science an irrepressible agent of change, or does it need top-down direction?
"Japan seeks to cloak its ongoing commercial whaling in the lab coat of science," Australia's agent to the court, Bill Campbell, told the 16-judge panel.
Even though they were secretive and self-deluded and their practices closer to magic than modern scientific methods, historians say, alchemists contributed to the emergence of modern chemistry as a science and an agent of commerce.
After making a splash at Duke, he returned to Brazil -- maintaining his Duke appointment -- determined to use science as an agent of social transformation.
Dr Nicolelis' idea of science as an agent for social change is one of the founding principles behind the research facility he established in 2005 on the outskirts of Natal, in northeastern Brazil, one of the poorest regions in the country.
We examine each of the ten features Rittel and Weber hold to be characteristic of wicked problems and show that they derive from three general sources common to science and design: agent finitude, system complexity and problem normativity, and play analogous roles in each.
