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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. Colleagues describe her virtual campus as, essentially, a hub for her students to access the virtual training apps she develops. So leaders at the college decided to build their own version.

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

Futurum

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

Stephen Wolfram

And that term immediately brings to mind wages, economics, etc. And, yes, plenty of what people do (at least in the world as it is today) is driven by issues of economics. And indeed it’s the basic driver for most of the processes of economics. Yes, we can do natural science to figure out some aspects of what’s going to happen.

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How Inevitable Is the Concept of Numbers?

Stephen Wolfram

But as another example of how this can play out, consider economic systems. But are “numerical prices” the only possible setup for an economic system? Ultimately an economic system is based on a large network of transactions. No doubt there’ll at least be some “natural-science-like” characterizations of what’s going on.

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Urban farming for urban families

Futurum

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.

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

Stephen Wolfram

There was one major exception, however, in 1738, when—as part of his eclectic mathematical career spanning probability theory, elasticity theory, biostatistics, economics and more— Daniel Bernoulli (1700–1782) published his book on hydrodynamics. Planck’s book came in a sense from the Clausius tradition.

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