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Urban farming for urban families

Futurum

The liberal arts consist of the natural sciences, like biology, ecology and neuroscience, formal sciences, like physics and maths, social sciences, and the humanities. Contact your local university and see if they offer agricultural science courses and any internship or work experience opportunities.

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

Stephen Wolfram

And one of the great feelings of power has been that even in fields—like the social sciences—where there haven’t really been much more than “verbal” models before, it’s now appeared possible to get models that at least seem much more “scientific”. In A New Kind of Science I cataloged and studied minimal kinds of models of many types.

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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.

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