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What lessons can we learn from past pandemics?

Futurum

Their research sheds light on the significant role that social inequalities play in determining the outcomes of a pandemic. In light of the social inequalities highlighted by COVID-19, this knowledge has never been more important. Taylor and Lisa use death records as their main source of quantitative data for their research.

Biology 85
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How can engineering address human rights issues?

Futurum

By combining engineering and human rights disciplines, he is researching the links between access to transport and the inequalities facing Peruvians today. This required data about social factors in each district, such as the population age structure, level of employment and literacy rate. This process is known as peripheralisation.

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The importance of community for reducing social isolation

Futurum

Mexican women often follow their partners into the workforce to support the family income, but they also tend to have primary responsibility for children, family and the home, meaning that the time they have left to socialise and develop meaningful relationships with other women is scarce. I’m not even a medical anthropologist.

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Can music be a tool for social transformation?

Futurum

This is why Professor Oscar Odena, an interdisciplinary researcher at the University of Glasgow in Scotland, decided to create a global network of people studying social music projects from Colombia in South America to the DRC in Africa. By 2019, Oscar had already spent a lot of time researching social music projects.

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

Futurum

Dr Elsa Anderson Role: Assistant Professor, Programme in Environmental Science Institution: Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) I teach an urban ecology class that aims to engage students in learning about nature where they live and understanding the interactions between people and their surroundings.

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

Stephen Wolfram

But, first and foremost, the story of the Second Law is the story of a great intellectual achievement of the mid-19th century. There’s a discussion about H for systems that interact, and how there’s an equilibrium value achieved. It’s exciting now, of course, to be able to use the latest 21st-century ideas to take another step.

Energy 88
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Remembering the Improbable Life of Ed Fredkin (1934–2023) and His World of Ideas and Stories

Stephen Wolfram

Ed was never officially a “test pilot”, but he told me stories about figuring out how to take his plane higher than anyone else—and achieving weightlessness by flying his plane in a perfect free-fall trajectory by maintaining an eraser floating in midair in front of him.