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	Hard Science Track - Events, Panels, Guests and Schedule -\|- March 14-16, 2008
		Hard Science Track - Events, Panels, Guests and Schedule -- March 14-16, 2008
		Hard Science Track - Events, Panels, Guests and Schedule
		We have some great science panels lined up with our guest scientists from the senior scientist with SETI to a renowned scientist in anti-matter.
	portal.omegacon.us /index.php/topic,57.0.html (635 words)

	hard. The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.
		Using or based on data that are readily quantified or verified: the hard sciences.
		See kar- in Appendix I. hard, difficult, arduous These adjectives mean requiring great physical or mental effort to do, achieve, or master.
		Hard is the most general term: “You write with ease to show your breeding,/But easy writing's curst hard reading” (Richard Brinsley Sheridan).
	www.bartleby.com /61/67/H0056700.html (516 words)

	Hard science - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Hard science is a term which often is used to describe certain fields of the natural sciences, usually physics, chemistry, and many fields of biology.
		The hard sciences are often contrasted with the 'soft sciences' and social sciences, which are by contrast implied to have less rigor.
		Thus the conclusions of hard science are seen to represent objective features of reality determined through concrete experiment (and sometimes thought experiments) by experimentalists with a rigorous training in specialized research methodology as interpreted by theoreticians who use their results.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hard_science (517 words)

	Read about Hard science at WorldVillage Encyclopedia. Research Hard science and learn about Hard science here! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		soft sciences' and social sciences, which are by contrast implied to have less rigor.
		The 'hard' versus 'soft' distinction is particularly charged, however, in that the opposition generally values hard sciences while devaluing soft sciences.
		Sigmund Freud, for example, was considered to be a "soft" science: it did not produce quantifiable results and the observation of data was left much to the individual interpretation of the investigator.
	encyclopedia.worldvillage.com /s/b/Hard_science (437 words)

	Beyond the Physical - Chapter 3
		This situation in the "hard" sciences may seem complicated (and it is) but it stands in stark contrast to the situation in the "soft" sciences.
		In Kuhn's terms, the "hard" sciences are very mature to have come to a state where there is an established consensus of many standard definitions of phenomena; this implies a very stable set of paradigms (in this case, a set of paradigms that pertain to the nature of physical phenomena).
		The "soft" sciences, on the other hand, are very immature in their development as sciences precisely because they consist of many competing paradigms with no common consensus or standard definitions of the phenomena they claim to study (that being the study of the many levels of human behavior).
	ourworld.compuserve.com /homepages/dondeg/bpweb/Chpt03.htm (10713 words)

	The Hard Sciences (Aaron Swartz's Raw Thought)
		The basics of the hard sciences are accessible, sure, but they have either been explored beyond hope for a lot of new and interesting discoveries (physics) or are still understood so little that it’s hard to get answers to many simple questions (biology).
		The soft sciences are harder than the hard sciences only in the sense that trying to nail jelly to a tree is harder than trying to nail a piece of wood to a tree.
		Meanwhile, the hard sciences are almost exclusively engaged in useful prediction.
	www.aaronsw.com /weblog/hardscience (2392 words)

	Chris Moriarty Science Fiction (Hard SF)
		The explorations of science fiction are normally for the purpose of testing an idea, a question, or a possibility in the literary laboratory; as opposed to tryting it out in the real world, where a botched experiment can mean famine, pestilence, or the bloody slaughter of one people by another....
		Science fiction is, in fact, essentially an unstructured think tank in which authors of different points of view can paint differing solutions of eventualities suggested by present problems or situations.
		In short, hard SF is the most unexclusive exclusive club there is. Of course, if you don't believe in the objectivity of quantitative analysis or the knowability of the unverse, then you might have trouble finding a place for yourself in hard SF.
	www.sff.net /people/moriarty/hard-sf.html (3597 words)

	Hoover Institution - Policy Review - A User's Guide to Politics
		into its various disciplines, for which the generally accepted word is "science." There developed what we now call the hard sciences, such as biology (the study of plants and animals), chemistry (the composition and properties of substances) and physics (the study of matter and energy).
		In the hard sciences, the overriding objective is to develop new insights into how things work.
		In cases where we decide we need more evidence, like our colleagues in the hard sciences we can structure "experiments" that will test our theses and tell us, with as much certainty as we reasonably can expect, which are correct and which are false.
	www.hoover.org /publications/policyreview/3909921.html (3876 words)

	EDGE 3rd Culture: Jared Diamond
		He notes the distinction between the "hard sciences" such as physics, biology, and astronomy — and what we sometimes call the "social sciences," which includes history, economics, government.
		The social sciences are often thought of as a pejorative.
		In particular many of the so-called hard scientists such as physicists or biologists, don't consider history to be a science.
	www.edge.org /3rd_culture/diamond/diamond_p1.html (378 words)

	Understanding The Hard Sciences by George Crispin
		Since science is always learning and changing, it doesn’t insist its conclusions are final, even thought they work remarkably well.
		"Science is socially influenced but is not socially constructed." After the scientific community has thrashed through countless theories and finds agreement, something about reality is known.
		Physical science begins by telling us to respect the nature of whatever we are investigating, that what is suitable for one discipline may not be suitable for another.
	www.lewrockwell.com /crispin/crispin16.html (588 words)

	Economics grad switching to hard sciences
		I'm looking for a little guidance on how someone whose training is outside the hard sciences can break into a scientific career path.
		Science curricula in everything below a Master's level moves from one area to the next, not going into much depth.
		Although sciences are very catergorized right now that there might be topics that just seem completely irrelevant to what you want to do, sometimes it turns out that something you learn in a completely "random" class becomes handy in a "relevant" class.
	www.physicsforums.com /showthread.php?p=1025409 (1426 words)

	Designing “Hard Science” Type Models of Perception, Cognition, and Memory
		Whereas psychologists grandly refer to their theories as “models,” the kind of flow charts, circuit diagrams, and state matrices utilized by the “hard sciences” are never verbal theories – they carefully depict the functional processes of phenomena like weather and have proved immensely useful in advancing the understanding of highly complex phenomena.
		The challenge implicit in attempting to design hard science type circuit diagrams of such highly complex systems as those we are attempting here involves the need to shape a replication of functions as they appear to work within the systems themselves.
		As the behavioral sciences move away from reductionism and finally begin to grapple with the mind’s vast array of states, processes, and functions, it seems almost certain that “hard science” type analog models will play an important role in 21st century psychological research.
	theoryandscience.icaap.org /content/vol004.002/03_shirley.html (4154 words)

	The Scientific Activist: Fantastical Fridays: The End of the Hard Sciences?
		It has been known officially since 2002 that the sciences are hard, and, as much as we scientists love it when our friends and family tell us how smart and wonderful we must be since they could never understand what we do...
		The question science educators are wrestling with then, is how to increase the appeal of their discipline without compromising its basic content.
		Funding for the basic sciences is still strong (although the trend here isn't positive) and the basic sciences still have a limitless number of questions to explore.
	www.scienceblogs.com /scientificactivist/2006/08/fantastical_fridays_the_end_of.php (2466 words)

	Senator Ron Wyden
		So, not only are fewer women studying math and the hard sciences, but even fewer go on to careers in these fields.
		By educating and mobilizing the next generation for achievement in science and technology, NASA is working to deepen its roots in research and reach for new stratospheres in science.
		That report warned that America's failure to invest in science and to reform math and science education was the second biggest threat to our national security.
	wyden.senate.gov /media/2002/06192002_titleix.html (1050 words)

	Marginal Revolution: Are the economic girlie men in the hard sciences?
		Perhaps surprisingly, a "female" pattern of exposure was common in scientists, while a "male" pattern dominated in the social sciences.
		Staff in the departments of chemistry, computer science, mathematics and physics all had average ratios of over 0.995 - close to the female average - despite 81% of those subjects being male.
		In contrast, the staff of the social science departments of economics, education, management, social and policy sciences had an average ratio below 0.98, the male average, despite only 66% of this sample being male.
	www.marginalrevolution.com /marginalrevolution/2004/10/where_are_the_e.html (537 words)

	Beyond the Mad Hard Sciences on Pioneer the mad social sciences on 43 Things
		But beyond that, we can point to other characteristics of mad science: it is ambitious, transgressively visionary; the mad scientist is sometimes a tragic figure, ultimately successful in developing his technology or in regard to some facet of the functioning of the universe—but ultimately he is unmade by his commitment to his vision.
		Historically, these fields tend even more than the hard sciences to be beholden to traditional perspectives—even if the traditions are no more than a generation old, they can have the force of dogma, and new traditions tend to arise under the force of clique-ish collectives politicking in the academisphere.
		We have had, possibly, a few mad social scientists in the field of psychology—not surprising, since pyschology is the hardest of the soft sciences.
	www.43things.com /entries/view/1726 (589 words)

	News in Science - Hard sciences have soft underbelly - 21/09/2001
		Australian politicians' plans for a high-tech future of biotechnology, nanotechnology and photonics will fail without a major campaign to stem the decline in the hard sciences, researchers have warned.
		Entitled Rebuilding the Enabling Sciences, it is issued on behalf of the Royal Australian Chemical Institute, the Australian Institute for Physics, the Australian Mathematical Sciences Council, and the Institution of Engineers Australia.
		The launch of the education initiative comes in the same week that the journal Science carries an editorial about Australia's policy of encouraging innovation based on intellectual property protection and commercialisation.
	www.abc.net.au /science/news/stories/s371514.htm (548 words)

	Gender Issues in Science and Technology (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Interestingly, like employment choices of women in science and engineering, academic choices seem to lean strongly on the side of disciplines like sociology, psychology, and biology. Women are more highly represented than men in some science fields.
		The physical sciences, computer science, and engineering are disciplines in which object mastery and tinkering are essential traits. Each promotes a view of the world that is mechanistic and focuses on abstract objective truths. These truths are then broken down into discrete elements to be isolated, examined and experimented on, i.e.
		It is during this period that science in particular becomes less hands on and more abstract. It is possible that this change in the math and science classes is one of the reasons for the divergence of performance.
	www.cs.utexas.edu /users/almstrum/cs370/russell7/russellResearch.html (1198 words)

	AERA 2000 Papers
		As one might expect, the hard scientists reported that the internet and, specifically xxx.lanl.gov, was the primary means by which they keep current with research in their field.
		The culture and history of the disciplines in the hard sciences, as asserted by the participants in Brand's study, facilitated the use of non-reviewed electronic archives of research.
		Disciplinary authoritarianism in fields outside of the hard sciences is more the rule than the exception, and any realistic attempt at following the lead of the sciences in taking the sort of free access that xxx exemplifies as paradigmatic has to take that into account.
	glass.ed.asu.edu /gene/papers/aera2000 (9887 words)

	Effective Multicultural Curriculum Transformation in "Advanced" Mathematics and "Hard" Sciences
		In fact, the more multiculturally-related courses and extracurricular experiences advanced mathematics and hard science graduates work into their degree programs and co-curricular lives, the more money they earn, and the faster they are promoted.
		The multicultural transformation of advanced mathematics and hard sciences curriculum, while not yet commonplace, is by no means novel.
		Clearly, advanced mathematics and hard sciences are open to comprehensive multicultural curriculum transformation as much as any other discipline.
	www.diversityweb.org /Digest/fw02/mathscience.html (1066 words)

	Double Vision: Why the "Soft" Sciences Are Harder Than the "Hard" Sciences
		Social science is, in fact, much more intellectually demanding than physical science, and I'd like to share with you my reasons for thinking so.
		Physical science will be as demanding as social science the day electrons go on strike to demand more neutrinos.
		So one gets into a feedback loop: teachers having only a weak grasp of the material's logic teach students who flounder in a logical morass, who learn bad habits to cope with the confusion, and who go on to teach students in their turn (and to be authors, journal reviewers, panel discussants, and so on).
	www.d.umn.edu /~schilton/Articles/Double.html (684 words)

	K-16 Education - Journal of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Education
		Today's educators look here for the latest teaching ideas in the life sciences, natural resources, and agriculture.
		The Journal of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Education is continuously updated online during the year and one hard copy is published at year-end (in December) by the American Society of Agronomy.
		American Association for Agricultural Education, American Institute of Biological Sciences, American Phytopathological Society, American Society for Horticultural Science, American Society of Plant Biologists, Crop Science Society of America, Ecological Society of America, Entomological Society of America, Soil Science Society of America
	www.jnrlse.org (121 words)

	Question for profs in the Hard Sciences
		I'd be interested to see hard data involving multiple universities, but in my experience physics depts have notably lower student evaluations than many other depts.
		If someone has a difficult time keeping students (they flee to other labs), or if they take and extra ordinary amount of time to finish, then this is a signal that they may be having issue which rear their heads in other areas.
		Like with publications, this is hard to compare among disciplines (the theoretician will most likely have fewer students than the gene jockey) but I think it could be another sign of a productive prof.
	chronicle.com /forums/index.php?PHPSESSID=tvpgl4g1oiapufdn88ljcl3c03&topic=30155.0 (1846 words)

	All About ISOC: Conferences - INET
		The Romanian Academy of Sciences is a large, multifaceted alliance of academics representing all fields of study, from drama to engineering.
		In nearly all of these results, the hard science group was noticeably more positive than the soft science group, even though both were positive.
		There were a few variables that elicited negative results from soft science respondents and positive from the hard sciences group.
	www.isoc.org /inet98/proceedings/4x/4x_1.htm (2717 words)

	Study Shows Top Colleges Have Few Women Profs in Hard Sciences
		As a result, even though the percentage of women who have attained bachelor of science degrees in math, science and engineering continues to increase, these students are not likely to have female faculty role models in their chosen field.
		The survey was conducted by Dr. Donna Nelson, associate professor of chemistry at the University of Oklahoma; her report released today was co-written with Diana C. Rogers, also of the University of Oklahoma.
		Gandy deplored the fact women are severely under-represented on science, technology, engineering and mathematics faculties even 30 years after the adoption of equal opportunity in education mandates under Title IX of the Education Act Amendments of 1972.
	www.now.org /issues/diverse/011504study.html (602 words)

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		The evolution of science fiction through the 20th century moved from a realm of fiction dealing with the hard sciences (called hard science fiction) to a modern complexity dealing with the soft sciences (called New Wave).
		Instead it turned to the realm of politics and used hard science as a means to their eventual survival.
		This is quite different from the hard science fiction where the actions of a single hero could change the course and fate of an entire galaxy per se (as in the popular space operas).
	pages.cpsc.ucalgary.ca /~sueng/School/Essays/Foundation.doc (3541 words)

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