"Whether it's improving our health or harnessing clean energy, protecting our security or succeeding in the global economy, our future depends on reaffirming America's role as the world's engine of scientific discovery and technological innovation." - President Barack Obama
See also: Office of Science and Technology Policy
The major subject areas in the sciences, distinguished by topical areas, funding sources, and to some extent research methods as well are:
• Physical Sciences
• Life Sciences
• Social Sciences
• Engineering and Applied Sciences
Science works by producing and testing theories that are provisionally accepted models or "useful fictions" that enable humans to predict how things in the real world will work. Science aims at the systematic elimination of error or falsehood, but can only offer the assurance that its currently standing theories "have yet to be disproved." Claims for science that promise more eventually provoke disappointment and cast the reliability of scientific findings into doubt.
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Friday’s West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Podcast for our especially special Daily Special, Blue Moon Spirits Fridays, is now available on the Spreaker Player!
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There have been a few great pieces lately chronicling the $1.6 billion donation that Leonard Leo got to spread conservative propaganda and disinfo. This week, Nina Burleigh at The New Republic went deep on Barre Seid, the erstwhile billionaire who gave...
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«Russian hypersonic missile scientists are arrested on treason charges», «Three developers of hypersonic rockets "Kinzhal" have been arrested in Russia in the case of treason», «Are Russian scientists becoming scapegoats for the failure of the special...
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West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy � is � No w Open! � 8am-9am PT/ 11am-Noon ET for our � especially special Daily Specials; Blue Moon Spirits Friday!
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Today’s West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Podcast for our especially special Daily Special, Metro Shrimp & Grits Thursdays, is now available on the Spreaker Player! Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, instead of denying whether Trump and Giuliani were...
by justiceputnam
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The American Petroleum Institute (API), the lobby group funded and led by ExxonMobil, Chevron, Shell, BP, and other major oil companies, is one of the biggest and oldest climate disinformation operations around. That's why it's being sued for its...
by ClimateDenierRoundup
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West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy � is � Now Open! � 8am-9am PT/ 11am-Noon ET for our � especially special Daily Specials, Me tro Shrimp & Grits Thursdays!
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by justiceputnam
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This is an open thread where everyone is welcome, especially night owls and early birds, to share and discuss the happenings of the day. Please feel free to share your articles and stories in the comments. The crew of the Overnight News Digest consists...
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Today’s West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Podcast for our especially special Daily Special, Smothered Benedict Wednesdays, is now available on the Spreaker Player! Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, House Democratic Leader Jeffries hopes to find some...
by justiceputnam
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Everyone should be encouraged to recycle, but recycling your own work without noting it's not new is called self-plagiarism, and it's the kind of thing that can get you expelled from colleges. Apparently, though, when it comes to selling anti-EV...
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West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy is Now Open! 8am-9am PT/ 11am-Noon ET for our especially special Daily Specials, Smothered Benedict Wednesdays! Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, House Democratic Leader Jeffries hopes to find some reasonable Republicans...
by justiceputnam
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Today’s West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Podcast for our especially special Daily Special, Tarrytown Chowder Tuesdays is now available on the Spreaker Player! Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, “there is no there there in the Durham probe.” Then, on the...
by justiceputnam
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Exxon knew. Shell knew. Total knew. BP knew. Chevron knew. Now, we’re finding out that Eni also allegedly knew about the dangers of burning fossil fuels, and instead of warning the world and leading the transition to green energy, the Italian oil...
by ClimateDenierRoundup
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West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy is Now Open! 8am-9am PT/ 11am-Noon ET for our especially special Daily Special; Tarrytown Chowder Tuesdays! Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, “there is no there there in the Durham probe.” Then, on the rest of the menu,...
by justiceputnam
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Today’s West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Podcast for our especially special Daily Special, River City Hash Mondays is now available on the Spreaker Player! Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, ‘I lost my key witness and I can’t get up.’ Then, on the rest of...
by justiceputnam
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We’ve been trying to mount an effective response to Alzheimer’s disease for about a century now, but unfortunately we haven’t made a whole lot of progress in understanding it, let alone curing it. But a study whose very nature meant it would take...
by skralyx
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The grade school understanding of Congress is that the Senate was meant to be the erudite center of sophisticated deliberations undertaken by wise policymakers somewhat insulated from the whims of public fancy by their six-year terms. Meanwhile, the...
by ClimateDenierRoundup
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West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy is Now Open! 8am-9am PT/ 11am-Noon ET for our especially special Daily Specials; River City Hash Mondays! Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, ‘I lost my key witness and I can’t get up.’ Then, on the rest of the menu, a...
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Here at Top Comments we strive to nourish community by rounding up some of the site's best, funniest, most mojo'd & most informative commentary, and we depend on your help!! If you see a comment by another Kossack that deserves wider recognition,...
by gizmo59
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We must continue having Christian principles guiding the medical experts setting our laws to further conservative views that this country is a Christian based one. In that regard, the state of Texas is rightly ignoring stated positions by the American...
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