Agenda for a better world

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Unesco Director General Federico Mayor points out a large number of scientific research projects could be assisted by the participation of other scientists from overseas. He suggests it is important for scientists to have a major role in helping to formulate scientific education. He predicts there will be a greater number of partnerships between scientists. Unesco has been working with the International Council for Science to hold a conference where they plan to introduce several new initiatives. The World Conference on Science is due to be held during June 1999, in Budapest, Hungary.

Conferences, meetings and seminars, Officials and employees, Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Executives, Budapest, Hungary, UNESCO, Mayor Zaragoza, Federico

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What he can teach us about the brain

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Engagement by the Dalai Lama and other Buddhist scholars and practitioners in Western science has opened doors into the inner workings of the mind and to new interest in 'poetic perception'. A book will be published in October 2006 about a conference held in 2003 where over a thousand scientists and scholars, including the Dalai Lama and a collection of Buddhist monks, gathered.

Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences, Scientific Research and Development Services, Research and Development in the Social Sciences and Humanities, Sciences, Science, Research & Development, Philosophy, Dalai Lama

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