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Indoor STEM Activities for Kids

STEM Sport

During these colder months, when outdoor adventures are limited, it’s crucial to find creative ways to engage young minds and bodies. Focusing on STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) activities can be an excellent strategy to keep students engaged in winter.

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How we read: the neuroscience behind literacy

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In goal-based training, individuals set their own goals associated with reading and we design activities to help them achieve them.” Jacqueline says that many areas of study can lead to a career in her field, including undergraduate degrees in psychology, linguistics, neuroscience, biology and medicine.

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On the frontline of the biomedical revolution

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I think I’ve achieved a lot. My father inspired me to be creative and innovative. Having a fundamental understanding of the underlying biology is critical when translating discoveries from the lab to the clinic,” she explains. “We I feel the 21st century is all about breakthroughs in biomedicine and biology.

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

Stephen Wolfram

Given a defined “goal”, an AI can automatically work towards achieving it. Most of our existing intuition about “machinery” and “automation” comes from a kind of “clockwork” view of engineering—in which we specifically build systems component by component to achieve objectives we want. And that’s where we humans come in.

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

Stephen Wolfram

But, first and foremost, the story of the Second Law is the story of a great intellectual achievement of the mid-19th century. There’s a discussion about H for systems that interact, and how there’s an equilibrium value achieved. It’s exciting now, of course, to be able to use the latest 21st-century ideas to take another step.

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What Is ChatGPT Doing … and Why Does It Work?

Stephen Wolfram

Because for some reason—that maybe one day we’ll have a scientific-style understanding of—if we always pick the highest-ranked word, we’ll typically get a very “flat” essay, that never seems to “show any creativity” (and even sometimes repeats word for word). The key is the notion of attractors.

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Urban farming for urban families

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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.