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9 Good Collections of Videos for Education

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Topics include earth sciences, nature, science, technology, history, space, the human body, sports, politics, philosophy, and more. C-Span Classroom is free but requires registration to access materials. Explore.org is the world’s leading philanthropic live nature cam network and documentary film channel.

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How we read: the neuroscience behind literacy

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In goal-based training, individuals set their own goals associated with reading and we design activities to help them achieve them.” Individuals with degrees in cognitive neuroscience can work in many areas, including academia, healthcare, government, industry and education, to name just a few. Do you have a question for Jacqueline?

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On the frontline of the biomedical revolution

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There’s a lot of exciting science out there, but for it to be useful for society, it needs to be translated into accessible technology that can be commercialised,” says Jin. I was sure I would do something related to science and technology, but wasn’t sure whether it would be in industry, government or academia.

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Will AIs Take All Our Jobs and End Human History—or Not? Well, It’s Complicated…

Stephen Wolfram

Given a defined “goal”, an AI can automatically work towards achieving it. Most of our existing intuition about “machinery” and “automation” comes from a kind of “clockwork” view of engineering—in which we specifically build systems component by component to achieve objectives we want. And that’s where we humans come in.

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What Is ChatGPT Doing … and Why Does It Work?

Stephen Wolfram

But say all we’ve got is the data, and we don’t know what underlying laws govern it. But while this might be a convenient setup for biology, it’s not at all clear that it’s even close to the best way to achieve the functionality we need. In this particular case, we can use known laws of physics to work it out.

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How Inevitable Is the Concept of Numbers?

Stephen Wolfram

How do we achieve this? They’re used to keep records, specify value in commerce, define how resources should be allocated, determine how governance should happen, and countless other things. Let’s say that we’re trying to achieve the objective of having an efficient transportation system for carrying people around.

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

Stephen Wolfram

But, first and foremost, the story of the Second Law is the story of a great intellectual achievement of the mid-19th century. There’s a discussion about H for systems that interact, and how there’s an equilibrium value achieved. It’s exciting now, of course, to be able to use the latest 21st-century ideas to take another step.

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