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The Metaverse Hype Died Down. Where Does That Leave Colleges That Invested In It?

ED Surge

But the concept resonated, says Marcy Drummond, the college’s vice president of economic and social mobility innovation. Some of the initial lessons that the university wanted to create, like organic chemistry and anatomy labs, required details that raised the expense and priced the school out. “I

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Supporting small farms: how protecting local farms can protect local communities

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And yet, many small farmers have limited access to resources and find themselves at a social disadvantage due to bias and prejudice. With less access to technology and fertiliser, small farms are particularly vulnerable to the effects of climate change.

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

Stephen Wolfram

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. But it really wasn’t physics, or computer science, or math, or biology, or economics, or any known field.

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

Stephen Wolfram

And indeed particularly in chemistry and engineering it’s often been in the background, justifying all the computations routinely done using entropy. As a practical matter, thermodynamics in its basic equilibrium form nevertheless became very widely used in engineering and in chemistry.

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Urban farming for urban families

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Food insecurity is a longstanding global problem that is tied to political, economic and social inequalities and inequities. The liberal arts consist of the natural sciences, like biology, ecology and neuroscience, formal sciences, like physics and maths, social sciences, and the humanities. Take a look at GrowVeg.