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Our school approach in teaching sustainability

Scientix

We work continuously to secure and coordinate support that targets academic and non-academic barriers to achievement in order to promote improved outcomes for students, families, and communities. National curricula also face logistical, social, and political barriers.

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How can engineering address human rights issues?

Futurum

The lack of phone signal hampered the coordination of logistics and provision of materials from the nearest town, while the lack of road access to the community centre meant all tools and materials had to be carried to Thastayoc from the nearest road. “So, The mountainous terrain provided additional challenges.

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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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