Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "David M. Scienceman is an Australian scientist; he changed his name from David Slade by deed poll in 1972. McGhee (1990) wrote that his change of name from Slade to Scienceman was an experiment to create a movement of scientifically aware politicians. In a world dominated by scientific achievements and problems, Slade believed that there should be a political party that represented the scientific point of view (Cadzow 1984).Scienceman has a mathematics and physics degree and a PhD in chemical engineering from Sydney University (Australia), on a scholarship from the Australian Atomic Energy Commission (Cadzow 1984). At a meeting of the World Future Society in 1976, a group of American feminists told him his new name was unbearably sexist. He saw their point and decided that a better title for members of the Scientific Party would be \"Sciencemate\" (Cadzow 1984).For Cadzow, Scienceman:... believes it is possible to measure anything, even money, in terms of its embodied energy. \"To operate a supply of banknotes you've got to have a very large commercial organisation. You've got to have banks, you've got to have printing houses. They themselves consume a large amount of energy\". By comparing the money flow with the energy flow, which has been broken down to mathematical units, \"we can say that a dollar is equivalent to so many units of embodied energy.\"(The Australian 1984, p. 7)"@en }
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- David_M._Scienceman abstract "David M. Scienceman is an Australian scientist; he changed his name from David Slade by deed poll in 1972. McGhee (1990) wrote that his change of name from Slade to Scienceman was an experiment to create a movement of scientifically aware politicians. In a world dominated by scientific achievements and problems, Slade believed that there should be a political party that represented the scientific point of view (Cadzow 1984).Scienceman has a mathematics and physics degree and a PhD in chemical engineering from Sydney University (Australia), on a scholarship from the Australian Atomic Energy Commission (Cadzow 1984). At a meeting of the World Future Society in 1976, a group of American feminists told him his new name was unbearably sexist. He saw their point and decided that a better title for members of the Scientific Party would be \"Sciencemate\" (Cadzow 1984).For Cadzow, Scienceman:... believes it is possible to measure anything, even money, in terms of its embodied energy. \"To operate a supply of banknotes you've got to have a very large commercial organisation. You've got to have banks, you've got to have printing houses. They themselves consume a large amount of energy\". By comparing the money flow with the energy flow, which has been broken down to mathematical units, \"we can say that a dollar is equivalent to so many units of embodied energy.\"(The Australian 1984, p. 7)".