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Indoor STEM Activities for Kids

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As the air rushes out of the balloon, it propels the balloon forward, vividly illustrating Newton’s Third Law of Motion – for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. Homemade Pendulum: Construct a simple pendulum by suspending a weight from a string.

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How Inevitable Is the Concept of Numbers?

Stephen Wolfram

No doubt there’ll at least be some “natural-science-like” characterizations of what’s going on. We also can’t tell whether numbers were just “convenient for proofs” or whether in fact the actual mathematical results picked to formalize were somehow based on their “accessibility” through numbers. Last[#][[1]]], GrayLevel[0.5,

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The Physicalization of Metamathematics and Its Implications for the Foundations of Mathematics

Stephen Wolfram

But beginning a little more than a century ago there emerged the idea that one could build mathematics purely from formal axioms, without necessarily any reference to what is accessible to sensory experience. and at t steps gives a total number of rules equal to: &#10005. But what can we do with this statement? &#10005.

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

Stephen Wolfram

This proof is easily obtained, however, by the method which I am about to explain… (He gives a long footnote explaining why Maxwell might be wrong, talking about how a sequence of collisions might lead to a “cycle of velocity states”—which Maxwell hasn’t proved will be traversed with equal probability in each direction.

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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.

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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.

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