The world has changed—will global science change, too?

2002 ◽  
Vol 37 (4) ◽  
pp. 475-476
Author(s):  
G Wick
Keyword(s):  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mile Babić

Current crisis of morality in scientific and technical civilization leads us to a common ruin because modern science (which is free of morality) is inextricably linked to technology, and can therefore be called technoscience. As such, today it has a monopoly on knowledge of the world and therefore has the greatest power in history and is in tight collusion with the holders of power: the economy, politics, medicine, media, countries and multinational corporations. To have the greatest imaginable power (which, according to Kant, corrupts the freedom of mental reasoning), while being free from the morals that limit that power, means to turn the world into a world of the most modern barbarism and violence, destruction and self-destruction. Only morally responsible science is capable for future and it is the premise of a civilization capable of the future. Only responsible science can prevent science from turning into a comprehensive dogma. Therefore, science must be free from any ideology that depicts reality in black and white and thus produces vanity, hatred and violence. Global science requires a global ethos (global responsibility). Science cares about the truth that liberates us from lies and connects us into a single community. The fundamental ethical imperative primum non nocere (“first, do no harm”) is valid everywhere and forever. Ethically responsible science requires a change in the consciousness of the individual and a rediscovery of the idea of brotherhood. No human action should undermine and destroy existing reality, but rather improve it.


2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thorsten Wagener

<p>Humanity has always been uncomfortable with knowledge gaps. When John Cabot left Bristol harbour in 1497 to find a new route to Asia, he was trying to fill one of those knowledge gaps. World maps available to him at the time seemingly described the world in great detail. However, when inspecting such maps more closely, one could see that much of this information were just drawings of lions and other monsters, reflecting areas that were actually unexplored. It is claimed that ancient mapmakers demarcated such unknown areas with the phrase HIC SUNT LEONES, "here be lions", suggesting that exploring such areas was dangerous and undesirable. But, less than a hundred years later, such maps had changed. They now revealed large areas of white space to reflect a lack of knowledge, thus inviting exploration to discover what was beyond the edge of current knowledge. Acknowledging the unknown became a scientific goal in itself.</p><p>Hydrology is rapidly developing into a global science where both mechanistic and data-based models assimilate global datasets to predict hydrologic behaviour across continental and even global domains. Model outputs showing global maps of hydrologic variables like streamflow, soil moisture or groundwater recharge have become increasingly common. However, such maps rarely contain information about where model predictions are made with more or less confidence. Where are models producing trustworthy information and where are we showing (hydrologic) lions? What are the reasons for variability in confidence that should be considered? How can we overcome these reasons? I will explore these questions with different examples drawn from large-scale hydrologic modelling.</p>


2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Gordon A. McBean

AbstractWhen recovering from the pandemic, it is important for Planet Earth to address the Global Agenda 2030, including food and water crises, and to bounce forward sustainably. The World Economic Forum’s Global Risk Report and Global Agenda 2030 provide a framework for action and an integrated global science agenda response, involving food and health, is essential. The UN 2021 Summit on Food Systems provides an opportunity for the global science community to come together to address the Summit’s Action Tracks, including building resilience to vulnerabilities, shocks and stresses. There would be major global benefits to have an international scientific network working with the UN to address the mandates of the UN Food Summit and Global Agenda 2030.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rosa Doran ◽  
Priscila Doran

<p>The world of education has many pillars that are equally important but the acceptance of the human nature and the understanding of what it entails is probably the most basic one. We educate students so they can thrive in their profession at a later stage in their lives. We try to empower little brains to embrace their passion and enhance their skills. But we often forget the importance of diversity and inclusion, which are the basic secret of being human. There is no life without diversity and inclusive environments. So where do we start? Well, by ensuring that education is built strongly build upon these pillars, by promoting an inclusive education where all talents and preferences are properly addressed and nurtured. We address these pillars by ensuring that diversity is accepted as normal and something that should be integrated in all learning stages. Empowering educators with the necessary tools to embed these notions in their lessons is key. In this presentation we aim to show to the audience a few efforts we have been lately involved where we use the Universal Design for Learning, Design Thinking and STEAM methodologies to improve the competence profile of educators.</p> <p>We are currently supporting educators from all over the world to cope with the contingencies brought by COVID-19. The lack of digital skills, the need for the integration of innovative methodologies in classroom and the openness of schools for the community they serve is not something new. The current pandemic just brought to light the urgent needs. We are combining components of projects like Reflecting for Change, InSteam, ASSESS, Polar Star and Global Science Opera for Schools to empower them with the necessary tools and resources. Teachers are being invited to rethink the way they present knowledge content, to avoid stereotypes, to embrace diversity as a normal part of their lessons and to ensure inclusion is present at every stage of their interaction with the students.  A summary of this effort will be presented in this talk.</p>


Author(s):  
Olena Borzenko

The relevance of the article in the analysis of the modern geopolitical space in which there are dramatic changes that qualitatively alter the disposition of post-socialist countries and regions of the world under the influence of scientific, technological, information, organizational and social process. The process of forming regulatory mechanisms for the functioning of the financial markets of the post-Soviet countries is linked to the transformation processes of global monetary and financial relations management. In modern conditions, the national financial market cannot be separated from the processes occurring in the world economy. In the last decades theoretical and practical problems of geoeconomics and global science have been investigated in the works of foreign scientists: L. Abalkin, M. Alle, U. Anderson, A. Anikina, J. Ackerloff, J. Arriga, D. Bell, W. Beck, Z. Brzezinski, I. Wallerstein, L. Galitz, J. Gelbraith, E. Giddens, M. Golovnin, P. Drucker, A. Kavkin, M. Castels, D. Keynes, L. Krasavina, V. Kruglov and others. It is observed that in the process of interaction of various factors of development in the world markets, an appropriate market conjuncture is formed, which reflects changes in specific conditions of market functioning and supply and demand, related to the dynamics of prices for goods and profits of firms and based on the cyclical development of the world economy, reflecting the nature of a market economy. Research methods are based on general scientific principles and fundamental principles of economic theory, theories of international economic relations and financial globalization, evolving in the face of geo-economic changes. The development of post-socialist countries is characterized by significant differences in the rates of economic growth and stabilization of monetary and financial systems, which is caused by: first, a significant stratification of economies in terms of development; second, the disintegration processes in mutual trade and more successful integration into the global trading environment due to the accelerated liberalization of the foreign trade sector compared to the financial sector; third, the incompleteness of financial sector reforms and the low level of development of financial services markets, respectively, the inefficiency of financial integration; fourth, the monetary and financial systems of the countries of the region remain vulnerable to the external effects of the crisis. The most powerful post-socialist countries (Russia, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, Azerbaijan) make more effective use of the benefits of globalization in the sphere of integration into the world economy.


2012 ◽  
Vol 67 (9) ◽  
pp. 59-64 ◽  
Author(s):  
V. I. Starodubov ◽  
S. L. Kuznetsov ◽  
N. G. Kurakova ◽  
L. A. Tsvetkova

The contribution scientific publications of Russian Academy of Medical Sciences (RAMS) in the national publication stream, indexed by Web of Science over the past thirty years, was estimated. The indicators of publication activity that are necessary for the institutions of RAMS to achieve in short-term period the conformity with bibliometric indicators, established by Presidential Decree of May 7, 2012 (to increase the share of Russian publications in Web of Science to 2.44% in 2015) were calculated. It is shown that the current structure of global science, where publications in medicine make up for approximately one third of scientific publications in the world, set for RAMS scientists particularly difficult task: to double in three years the number of publications in Web of Sci. In the article are proposed the priorities and the necessary steps to fulfill this task. 


1995 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 172-201 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cecil Schneer

In August, 1968 nearly 3000 geologists from 91 countries gathered in Prague for the XXIIIrd International Geological Congress. Geology was in a state of major transformation and the Congress was the opportunity for the nascent International Union of Geological Sciences to involve the world geological community. But a brutal invasion of Czechoslovakia by its Communist allies frustrated all plans. Over 500 papers, more than 50 field trips, dozens of colloquia, meetings of affiliated societies etc. were canceled. Thousands of geologists who might have disseminated a uniquely global science to the classrooms and boardrooms of 91 countries's, were scattered by the winds of war. In rump sessions within the dying Congress and immediately after, a handful of West bloc geologists, committed agents of the new developments, struggled to pick up the pieces. The IUGS had to wait four years for another plenary session with the world geological community.


GeoJournal ◽  
1992 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 67-72
Author(s):  
DavidF. Reid ◽  
AlfredM. Beeton
Keyword(s):  

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 23
Author(s):  
M. F. Zenrif

<p>Not a few campus communities, either within the Ministry of Religious Affairs or the Ministry of National Education, who have not or deliberately failed to understand the necessity of Islamization of science. In fact, in the world of global science, many scholars believe that since the last half of the twentieth century it is a revival of Islam (the renaissance of Islam) which is at least characterized by the rise of the Islamization of science, economics, social, politics and so on. Methods of thinking and research methods are the foundation of the development of science, then both are actually an applicative form of the whole paradigm and the world view of the flow of knowledge. Islamization of thinking methods has duality characteristics, Mutawassith characteristics, and formulative characteristics. The research methods developed in both classical and modern Islamic times need to be reconstructed to give birth to the methods expected in Islam. For that reason, it takes dialogue simultaneously to contribute greatly to the creation of an Islamic civilization.</p><p> </p><p>Tidak sedikit masyarakat kampus, baik di lingkungan Departemen Agama atau Departemen Pendidikan Nasional, yang belum atau sengaja tidak memahami perlunya Islamisasi ilmu pengetahuan. Padahal, di dunia ilmu pengetahuan global, banyak pakar meyakini bahwa sejak paruh terakhir abad ke- 20 merupakan kebangkitan kembali Islam (the renaissance of Islam) yang setidaknya ditandai dengan timbulnya semangat Islamisasi ilmu pengetahuan, ekonomi, sosial, politik dan sebagainya. Metode  berfikir dan metode penelitian merupakan tumpuan dari pengembangan ilmu pengetahuan, maka keduanya  sesungguhnya merupakan bentuk aplikatif dari seluruh paradigma dan  world view aliran ilmu pengetahuan. Islamisasi metode berfikir memiliki karakteristik dualitas, karakteristik Mutawassith, dan karakteristik formulatif. Baik metode penelitian yang dikembangkan dalam Islam era klasik maupun modern perlu direkontruksi untuk melahirkan metode yang diharapkan dalam Islam. Untuk itu diperlukan dialog secara simultan untuk memberikan kontribusi yang besar terhadap terciptanya peradaban yang Islami. </p>


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