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Urban farming for urban families

Futurum

Meet David I majored in anthropology and biology at university. I took courses with a biological anthropologist who inspired me to study how humans use biology and culture to adapt (or not) to stressful environments such as food scarcity, extreme temperatures, and common diseases. Cultivate curiosity and share your knowledge.

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Imaging the invisible: how can research software and imaging techniques help scientists study the things we can’t see?

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When researchers visit the facility to capture images, they are supported by scientists, including research software engineers who help them process their data and access software. Once this is done, the CTC video footage will be accessible to artificial intelligence image analysis techniques. Scientific imaging in in cell biology.

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Charting a Course for “Complexity”: Metamodeling, Ruliology and More

Stephen Wolfram

Could it really be that this was the secret that nature had been using all along to make complexity? It seemed as if there was a vast new domain that had suddenly been made accessible to scientific exploration. And in it I could see so much great science that could be done, and so many wonderful opportunities for so many people.

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

Stephen Wolfram

But it also highlights how significant our specifics—our particular history, biology, etc.—are. There are things we “just want to do”—as a “social matter”, for “entertainment”, for “personal satisfaction”, etc. Some of it seems intrinsic to our biological nature. It’s very much like with ChatGPT.

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

Stephen Wolfram

Maxwell included one last section in his book that to us today might seem quite wild: In other words, aware of Darwin ’s (1809–1882) 1859 Origin of Species , he’s considering a kind of “speciation” of molecules, along the lines of the discrete species observed in biology. talked about “negative entropy” associated with life.

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