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While the scientific community was once divided between supporters of the Big Bang and those of alternative cosmological models, most scientists became convinced that some version of the Big Bang scenario best fit observations after the discovery of the cosmic microwave background radiation in 1964, and especially when its spectrum ( i. e., the amount of radiation measured at each wavelength ) was found to match that of thermal radiation from a black body.
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While we are filling outer space with scientific successes, for many the `` inner '' space of their soul is an aching void.
While Grothendieck was at the IHÉS, opposition to the Vietnam War was heating up, and Cartier suggests that this also reinforced Grothendieck's distaste at having become a mandarin of the scientific world.
While there is no scientific evidence for the cryptid's existence, there have been over 300 reported sightings.
While there has been a fair amount of scientific research on the psychology of older board games ( e. g., chess, go, mancala ), less has been done on contemporary board games such as Monopoly, Scrabble, and Risk.
While many scientific experts might agree on a common definition of the term " coast ", the delineation of the extents of a coast differ according to jurisdiction, with many scientific and government authorities in various countries differing for economic and social policy reasons.
While the scientific nomenclature of carbohydrates is complex, the names of the monosaccharides and disaccharides very often end in the suffix-ose.
While his system was less " scientific " than that of J. P. Lesley, it's other key features – notation, specificity, and versatility – make it deserving of the praise it has received.
While anecdotal accounts do not provide scientific proof of clairvoyance, such common experiences continue to motivate research into such phenomena.
While the term has remained in use amongst scientific authors when referring to modern evolutionary theory, it has increasingly been argued that it is an inappropriate term for modern evolutionary theory.
While there is no scientific basis in Darwinism for the Darwin Awards, the stories are nevertheless entertaining, and can be thought of as an example of schadenfreude – deriving entertainment value out of the misfortune of others.
While there were a number of precursors to Gaia theory, the first scientific form of this idea was proposed as the Gaia hypothesis by James Lovelock, a UK chemist, in 1970.
While controversial at first, various forms of this idea have become accepted to some degree by many within the scientific community.
While empirical investigations of the natural world have been described since classical antiquity ( for example, by Thales, Aristotle, and others ), and scientific methods have been employed since the Middle Ages ( for example, by Ibn al-Haytham, Abū Rayhān al-Bīrūnī and Roger Bacon ), the dawn of modern science is generally traced back to the early modern period, during what is known as the Scientific Revolution that took place in 16th and 17th century Europe.
While imprecise language is not desirable in various scientific fields, it may be helpful, illustrative or discussion-stimulative in other contexts.
While Kepler considered most traditional rules and methods of astrology to be the " evil-smelling dung " in which " an industrious hen " scrapes, there was an " occasional grain-seed, indeed, even a pearl or a gold nugget " to be found by the conscientious scientific astrologer.
While there, he met the naturalist and physician Charles-Marie D ' Orbigny, who improved Audubon's taxidermy skills and taught him scientific methods of research.
While the Gaia hypothesis was readily accepted by many in the environmentalist community, it has not been widely accepted within the scientific community.
While Agassiz did much to place the subject on a scientific basis, this classification has been superseded by later work.
While Leonardo's experimentation followed clear scientific methods, a recent and exhaustive analysis of Leonardo as scientist by Frtijof Capra argues that Leonardo was a fundamentally different kind of scientist from Galileo, Newton and other scientists who followed him in that, as a Renaissance Man, his theorising and hypothesising integrated the arts and particularly painting.
While details of macroevolution are continuously studied by the scientific community, the overall theory behind macroevolution ( i. e. common descent ) has been overwhelmingly consistent with empirical data.
While eight of the planetary bodies discovered before 1950 remain " planets " under modern definition, some celestial bodies, such as Ceres, Pallas, Juno, Vesta ( each an object in the Solar asteroid belt ) and Pluto ( the first-discovered trans-Neptunian object ), that were once considered planets by the scientific community are no longer viewed as such.
While the standards for determining whether a body of knowledge, methodology, or practice is scientific can vary from field to field, a number of basic principles are widely agreed upon by scientists.
While Ireland largely mirrored British trends, with scientific lectures and demonstrations becoming a popular pastime of the age, by 1815 phrenology had already been ridiculed in some circles priming the audiences to the its skeptical claims.
While and community
While I fully agree with Sir Anthony's contention, I think that we must carry the analysis farther, bearing in mind that while common peril may be the measure of our need, the existence or absence of a positive sense of community must be the measure of our capacity.
While it is hazardous to project the trend of history, it seems clear that a genuine community is painfully emerging in the Western world, particularly among the countries of Western Europe.
While we, as American artists, believe deeply in the universal character of all intellectual activity, we would be less than honest with you, or ourselves, if we failed to state a specific attitude toward our own society as well as the international community as a whole.
While the Ural – Altaic hypothesis can still be found in encyclopedias, atlases, and similar general references, it has not had any adherents in the linguistics community for decades.
While it contains much in the way of Native American tradition, it should not be confused with the tribal beliefs of any community of native people.
While state and local jurisdictions will implement training in the manner that best suits the community, the Citizen Corps CERT program has an established curriculum.
While Sunni and Shia Islam differ sharply on the conduct of a caliph and the right relations between a leader and a community, they do not differ on the underlying theory of stewardship.
While a few short-lived DOS based EDuke projects emerged, it was not until the release of EDuke32, an extended version of Duke3D incorporating variants of both Fowler's Microsoft Windows JFDuke3D code and Saettler's EDuke code, by one of 3D Realms ' forum moderators in late 2004 that EDuke's scripting extensions received community focus.
While a slight bow to the overall developer community to allow something looking like direct access ( e. g. thereby breaking the Information Hiding Principle ), the practice is dangerous as it hides or obfuscates the reality of a " setter " being used.
While Bannister was well known in the artistic community of his adopted home of Providence, Rhode Island and admired within the wider East Coast art world ( he won a bronze medal for his large oil " Under the Oaks " at the 1876 Philadelphia Centennial ), he was largely forgotten for almost a century for a complexity of reasons, principally connected with racial prejudice.
While the community was skeptical that this new method could possibly outperform hand-coding, it reduced the number of programming statements necessary to operate a machine by a factor of 20, and quickly gained acceptance.
While welcomed by the target shooting community, in 2008 opposition deputies Jim Deasy and Olivia Mitchell campaigned to ban these pistols on the grounds that they could be used in crime.
While working in Borneo in 1911, Gardner eschewed the racist attitudes of his colleagues by befriended members of the Dayak indigenous community, fascinated by their magico-religious beliefs, tattoos and displays of weaponry.
While comparatively few studies of this type have been performed, results from these suggest that some of the most readily isolated and studied genera may not in fact be significant in the in-situ community.
While recent evidence suggesting that American Ivory-billed Woodpeckers may still exist in the wild has caused excitement in the Ornithology community, no similar evidence exists for the Cuban Ivory-billed bird, believed to be extinct since the last sighting in the late 1980s.
While a variety of views regarding homosexuality as an inclination or status exist within the Orthodox Jewish community, Orthodox Judaism generally prohibits homosexual conduct.
While most MOOs are run by administrative fiat, in summer of 1993 LambdaMOO implemented a petition / ballot mechanism, allowing the community to propose and vote on new policies and other administrative actions.
While the vast majority of nurse-midwives work in hospitals, some nurse-midwives and virtually all direct-entry midwives work within the community or home.
While Moses was on Mount Sinai receiving instruction on the laws for the Israelite community, the Israelites went to Aaron and asked him to make gods for them.
While of little interest to those outside the MUMPS / M community, this topic has been contentious there.
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