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How we read: the neuroscience behind literacy

Futurum

While it is obvious how sight is involved in reading, research has also uncovered the important roles of hearing and touch. In goal-based training, individuals set their own goals associated with reading and we design activities to help them achieve them.” Our eyes, ears and touch systems all play important roles in reading.”

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9 Good Collections of Videos for Education

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This placed the responsibility for learning on the students, using teacher-prescribed methods, even though decades of research screamed that lots of kids perform better with images than pages filled with black-and-white text. ” Kudos to their ability to achieve that goal. Futures Channel.

Education 153
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Urban farming for urban families

Futurum

In the early 1990s, I was doing my doctoral research in Lesotho, Southern Africa. The liberal arts consist of the natural sciences, like biology, ecology and neuroscience, formal sciences, like physics and maths, social sciences, and the humanities.

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Behind the screens: the crystals that flow like rain down a windowpane

Futurum

The research team (left to right): Ian Sage, Akhshay Bhadwal, Joseph Cousins, Nigel Mottram, Carl Brown and Stephen Wilson. School of Science and Technology. FIELD OF RESEARCH. FIELD OF RESEARCH. RESEARCH PROJECT. Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC). Experimental Physics.

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Charting a Course for “Complexity”: Metamodeling, Ruliology and More

Stephen Wolfram

And it seemed only natural to label what could now be done as “ complex systems theory ”: a theory of systems that show complexity, even from simple rules. And while they used computers as practical tools, they never made the jump to seeing computation as a core paradigm for thinking about science. It’s been 36 years now.

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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. Coarse-grained variables. But the paper is ending.

Energy 88
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A 50-Year Quest: My Personal Journey with the Second Law of Thermodynamics

Stephen Wolfram

The year before, for example, at the Nobel Symposium conference in Sweden, a French physicist named Uriel Frisch had been summarizing the state of turbulence research. In early 1984 I visited MIT to use the machine to try to do what amounted to natural science, systematically studying 2D cellular automata.

Physics 95