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Our school approach in teaching sustainability

Scientix

After-school clubs support mental and physical health, providing a safe space for students to develop their skills and talents. 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.

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

Stephen Wolfram

But by the end of the 1800s, with the existence of molecules increasingly firmly established, the Second Law began to often be treated as an almost-mathematically-proven necessary law of physics. But, first and foremost, the story of the Second Law is the story of a great intellectual achievement of the mid-19th century.

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Can AI Solve Science?

Stephen Wolfram

A key idea—ultimately supported at a foundational level by our Physics Project —is that we can think of everything that happens as a computational process. In 2019 I was doing another systematic enumeration, now of possible hypergraph rewriting rules that might correspond to the lowest-level structure of our physical universe.

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How can engineering address human rights issues?

Futurum

Engineering combines maths and science to solve real-world problems, so studying maths, physics, chemistry and computing at school will all be useful when applying for an engineering degree at university. Study social science subjects at school to learn about the human side of engineering challenges.

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

Stephen Wolfram

Indeed, so confident was he of his programming prowess that he became convinced that he should in effect be able to write a program for the universe—and make all of physics into a programming problem. It didn’t help that his knowledge of physics was at best spotty (and, for example, I don’t think he ever really learned calculus).

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

Futurum

I began my career in the technical side of GIS, but I have been wooed to the social sciences. This involves taking a holistic approach when thinking about the city’s relationship with the environment across social boundaries. At school, I gravitated towards the social sciences.

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Can music be a tool for social transformation?

Futurum

“It may not change people’s social circumstances immediately,” he says, “but it can change the way they see themselves, which can bring increased well-being and potentially lead to positive changes.”. FIELD OF RESEARCH: Arts and Social Science. WHY DO SOCIAL MUSIC PROJECTS NOT ALWAYS GO TO PLAN? MEET PATRICIA.