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Fall STEM Activities

STEM Sport

Educational Benefit: This activity encourages observational skills and offers a hands-on introduction to plant biology and the life cycle. Educational Benefit: This experiment provides insights into plant biology and the effects of environmental factors on growth.

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Dear Educators, a Balm for Deep Cuts: Navigating Racial Microaggressions at School

ED Surge

I’ve spent so much energy replaying what happened, trying to process it with friends, ruminating about what I should’ve said or done instead, that you’ll have to ask my classmates how it really went down. Do I have the time and energy right now? At least, I hope I said something like that. Will I lose my job?

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How Did We Get Here? The Tangled History of the Second Law of Thermodynamics

Stephen Wolfram

By 1807 the term “energy” had been introduced, but the question remained of whether it could in any sense globally be thought of as conserved. It had seemed for a long time that heat was something a bit like mechanical energy, but the relation wasn’t clear—and the caloric theory of heat implied that caloric (i.e.

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Computational Foundations for the Second Law of Thermodynamics

Stephen Wolfram

And the Second Law assertion that energy associated with systematic mechanical work tends to “degrade into heat” then corresponds to the fact that when there’s computational irreducibility the behavior that’s generated is something we can’t readily “computationally see through”—so that it appears random to us. But there’s even further to go.

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Deducing how Antarctica will respond to climate change

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Other processes include direct melting from the Sun’s energy hitting the ice’s surface. Given that this energy varies daily and seasonally, the ice can undergo repetitive freezing and thawing, which can crack the ice sheet and lead to dramatic collapses of sections.

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Launching Version 13.1 of Wolfram Language & Mathematica ??????

Stephen Wolfram

Needless to say, you can do this computationally—though the “calculus” of what’s been defined so far in Unicode is fairly bizarre: &#10005. Now we can use the path function to make a “spiralling” tour video: College Calculus. Transforming college calculus was one of the early achievements of Mathematica. Fractional Calculus.

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Even beyond Physics: Introducing Multicomputation as a Fourth General Paradigm for Theoretical Science

Stephen Wolfram

In physics, energy (and mass) act as a “source of gravity”. But in our models of physics, energy has a rather simple (and generic) interpretation : it is effectively just the “density of activity” in the multicomputational system—or the number of events in a certain “region of space”. Chemistry / Molecular Biology.

Physics 64