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Grand questions about grand challenges

Robert Talbert, Ph.D.

What about the fact that casual publication doesn't count for much professionally? where I challenged faculty to have 75% or more of their own instructional time be focused on active learning by the end of next academic year ) How do you provide flexibility for classes where active learning options are very limited?

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Plant polymers as plastic alternatives

Futurum

With these lessons learnt, the team is now setting up a company which will have the resources and flexibility to work with other companies on short timescales. One of the primary tasks for me is to order necessary supplies for the lab and maintain an organised inventory system to prevent any delays in research activities.

Biology 84
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The Story Continues: Announcing Version 14 of Wolfram Language and Mathematica

Stephen Wolfram

There’s a public Prompt Repository that so far has several hundred curated prompts. The function Map takes a function f and “maps it” over a list: Comap does the “mathematically co-” version of this, taking a list of functions and “comapping” them onto a single argument: Why is this useful? is PositionSmallest. is PositionSmallest.

Computer 102
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How Did We Get Here? The Tangled History of the Second Law of Thermodynamics

Stephen Wolfram

But he had a second hypothesis too—based, he said, on the ideas of “that most ingenious gentleman, Monsieur Descartes”: that instead air consists of “flexible particles” that are “so whirled around” that “each corpuscle endeavors to beat off all others”.

Energy 88
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Who Cares About Saving Public Schools? @BetsyDeVos as #TrumpEducation Secretary

The Innovative Educator

Trump has named Betsy DeVos ed secretary and now some public school teacher groups say they’re appalled. America voted for a president who was crystal clear that he wanted to end public education as we know it (maybe even abolish the Department of Ed) and make education great again. Note: Twitter won't let you Tweet my blog url.