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SHAPE in Schools: Changing mindsets in support of social sciences, humanities and the arts

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SHAPE in Schools: Changing mindsets in support of social sciences, humanities and the arts Published: Social sciences, humanities and the arts are vital for addressing complex challenges, but do young people truly understand their value? Society depends on creatives just as much as scientists. What is SHAPE?

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Creating software that works for everyone

Futurum

Through a variety of creative approaches, John’s team is developing inclusive software that considers the unique needs and characteristics of today’s diverse populations. At university, I planned to major in chemistry or progress to medical school. At university, I planned to major in chemistry or progress to medical school.

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The power of geographic information systems: bringing data to life with maps

Futurum

One of the things I love most about science, and GIS and ecology in particular, is that it’s a creative process. I started studying chemistry because it seemed like something I would be able to get a job in. I began my career in the technical side of GIS, but I have been wooed to the social sciences.

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Delve Talks: Winnie Karanja, Maydm

Maydm

As a high school student, Winnie had a passion for both math and the social sciences. Her teachers pushed her into the “easier” path of social sciences rather than encourage her interest in STEM subjects. And throughout my sort of high school experience, I’d been, you know, passionate about social sciences.

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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. But, first and foremost, the story of the Second Law is the story of a great intellectual achievement of the mid-19th century. He ends his piece with: In (2) the hedging is interesting.

Energy 88
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Can AI Solve Science?

Stephen Wolfram

But just by systematic enumeration the computer was able to find what seemed to me like a very “creative” result. Here’s how the “loss” evolves (over the course of 100 generations) for a collection of paths: And what we see is that there’s only one “winner” here that achieves zero loss; on all the other paths, evolution “gets stuck”.

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Remembering the Improbable Life of Ed Fredkin (1934–2023) and His World of Ideas and Stories

Stephen Wolfram

In 2015 Ed told me a nice story about his time at Caltech: In 1952–53, I was a student in Linus Pauling’s class where he lectured Freshman Chemistry at Caltech. He ended up spending time working various jobs to support himself, didn’t do much homework, and by his sophomore year—before having to pick a major—dropped out.