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Could AI Give Civics Education a Boost?

ED Surge

schools have “deprioritized” the teaching of civics and social studies, in favor of pumping resources into mathematics and STEM fields. Both educators hope that teaching critical thinking and how to analyze historical events will shift the conversation away from culture war arguments about whether and how to teach controversial topics. “By

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Should universities use differential treatment to admit students?

Futurum

Economics is the study of how people make decisions, how we choose where to study and work, how we promote fairness in society and how our lives are shaped by market institutions and government policies,” says Dr Emil Temnyalov, an economist at the University of Technology Sydney. How does Emil study the efficiency of differential treatment?

Economics 111
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How will climate change affect forests?

Futurum

Simulation and statistical models (SSMs) are types of mathematical models used in ecology. What has motivated me is the change that has occurred in governments and people in the climate change space. It is inspiring to see the research mainstreamed and the arguments of “is climate changing?” shifting to “what we do about this?”

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How can place attachment improve scientific literacy?

Futurum

Pathway from school to environmental geography • Ben recommends studying an undergraduate degree in Earth and environmental science, biology, chemistry or mathematics. If you are more interested in social science, consider studying this as an undergraduate degree and environmental geography as a postgraduate degree. •

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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. There were still mathematical loose ends, as well as issues such as its application to living systems and to systems involving gravity.

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The Concept of the Ruliad

Stephen Wolfram

And—it should be said at the outset—we’re still only at the very beginning of nailing down those technical details and setting up the difficult mathematics and formalism they involve.) Mathematically this can be thought of as being like decomposing the ruliad structure in terms of fibrations and foliations.). Experiencing the Ruliad.

Physics 122
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What is Python? Python Programming for Beginners.

Ellipsis Education

Which is a system used within Python in the event an argument passed to a function is a string, integer or whole number, the passing is like call-by-value because you cannot change the value of the immutable objects passed to the function. Big Data is used in every field from education to government to healthcare.

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