They supposedly manipulated data, suppressed research they didn't like, bullied colleagues, threatened editors of scientific journals, and let their political views trump their scientific instincts.
But there is still a glimmer of the grave robber in many archaeologists, and the search for a juicy royal tomb can stimulate more than just rational, scientific instincts.Few tombs would be juicier than that of Lars Porsena, an Etruscan king who ruled in central Italy around 500BC.
You don't yet have the knowledge or the scientific instincts to go it alone or maybe you just suffer from self-doubt due to lack of experience.
In its own words, HHMI "believes that science is facilitated... by providing outstanding researchers with the resources and flexibility to follow their scientific instincts and to pursue new opportunities as soon as they arise".
The federal funding gave people like Saul the ability to follow their scientific instincts and try to find the answers to interesting questions that popped up".
He was also a pioneer of modern science journalism.In the course of transforming a parochial and withering publication called Nature into a globally influential scientific giant his instinct for publicity pushed science into British newspapers in a way that had not happened before.
Some attribute the uncanny perfection of Mona Lisa to Leonardo's scientific observation, mathematical instinct, unparalleled skill, and the harmony of the composition (5 ).
Professor Maria Vicedo-Castello reviewed the history of scientific views about maternal instinct and concluded that "there is no scientific evidence to claim that there is a maternal instinct that automatically gives women the desire to have children, makes women more emotional than men, confers upon them a higher capacity for nurturance, and makes them better equipped to rear children than men".
The setting of her new "littleWOOD," set to music by Okkyung Lee, is a gothic forest where Ms. Kravis, clearly a choreographer with a gift for the well-turned phrase, will explore "the irresolution of animal instinct and scientific inclination".
(Who knew the Maker's Mark distillery had a low-carbon footprint?) While there were no self-announcing resolution-makers in the crowd the other night, there was — by coincidence — a Stanford University psychologist, Kelly McGonigal, celebrating the publication of "The Willpower Instinct," her scientific study on the nature of self-control.
