The World Knowledge Dialogue Symposium 2006 is an institutional initiative to bridge the gap between the natural and the human/social sciences starting from new, revolutionary discoveries with potential impact at the scale of paradigmatic changes. http://www.wkdnews.org/wkd.xml World Knowledge Dialogue News Copyright 2008 World Knowledge Dialogue http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss/ en-us Thu, 13 Mar 2008 16:11:01 GMT support@mcart.info Thu, 13 Mar 2008 16:11:01 GMT 120 support@mcart.info MCART Feed Generator support@mcart.info http://www.wkdnews.org/images/logo_rss.gif http://www.wkdnews.org/wkd.xml 88 31 Phase one of a new experiment with human "guinea-pigs" was launched in the Swiss alpine resort of Crans-Montana in September 2006 (14-16th). Some of you who will read this are among the 270 participants at the first biennial World Knowledge Dialogue Symposium who volunteered to take part in the experiment. Others among you may have heard of the World Knowledge Dialogue from a colleague or friend. Perhaps you received an invitation to attend, but felt your career advancement plan could not afford the "luxury" of taking time off from other professional commitments? You may feel skeptical about the value of such an initiative, or you may quite simply not have grasped what it's all about, but you are curious enough to have come seeking information. (You are unlikely to be reading this if you are the biomedical researcher invitee who responded "Social scientists should be drowned at birth".) So what is it all about, this World Knowledge Dialogue Symposium, and what is so unique about it? http://www.wkdnews.org/view/index.php?basic_entity=document&list_ids=32 http://www.wkdnews.org/view/index.php?basic_entity=document&list_ids=32 Tue, 17 Oct 2006 00:00:00 GMT Three days of frank exchanges between the world's top academics and practitioners in the natural and social sciences closed with a call from Dame Julia Higgins to do everything possible to bridge the gap between the two disciplines "for the sake of humanity". http://www.wkdnews.org/view/index.php?basic_entity=document&list_ids=25 http://www.wkdnews.org/view/index.php?basic_entity=document&list_ids=25 Mon, 18 Sep 2006 00:00:00 GMT The Chairpersons of the 3 workshops held on Saturday morning commented on the results of each discussion. It was apparent that many more questions have come out of this symposium than concrete answers, but the step of acknowledging this is a positive one. http://www.wkdnews.org/view/index.php?basic_entity=document&list_ids=22 http://www.wkdnews.org/view/index.php?basic_entity=document&list_ids=22 Mon, 18 Sep 2006 00:00:00 GMT