Remove Accessibility Remove Equality Remove Government Remove Natural Sciences
article thumbnail

How Inevitable Is the Concept of Numbers?

Stephen Wolfram

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. No doubt there’ll at least be some “natural-science-like” characterizations of what’s going on. Last[#][[1]]], GrayLevel[0.5, Last[#][[1]]], GrayLevel[0.5,

article thumbnail

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

Stephen Wolfram

In 1845 Kelvin (as we’ll call him) had spent some time in Paris (primarily at at a lab that was measuring properties of steam for the French government), and there he’d learned about Carnot’s work from Clapeyron’s paper (at first he couldn’t get a copy of Carnot’s actual book). But first we have to go back a bit in the story.

Energy 88
educators

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

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

Stephen Wolfram

One of them is that one can expect to make something equally computationally sophisticated out of all sorts of different kinds of things—whether brain tissue or electronics, or some system in nature. Processes in nature—like, for example, the weather—can be thought of as corresponding to computations.

Computer 105
article thumbnail

San Diego Zoo Global offers more than fun for kids with teacher training

STEMx

My work also involves fostering key partnerships with foundations, government agencies and non-profit organizations to build capacity for high-quality, accessible conservation science education. . Equally challenging is the predicament of the American science teacher.

Biology 40