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Should universities use differential treatment to admit students?

Futurum

As you can imagine, there are many arguments both for and against these ideas. Emil is using mathematical tools to develop models of education and labour markets, which allow him to definitively state how efficiency can be maximised to improve education and labour market policies. “For What has Emil discovered?

Economics 111
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How can place attachment improve scientific literacy?

Futurum

Published: At Furman University in the US, Dr Ben Haywood and Professor Julia Parrish from the University of Washington are studying how citizen science programmes impact the relationships participants have with the places and ecology they study which might, in turn, increase scientific literacy. 1322820 and 2031884.

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Social science for social change: the story of marriage equality in the US

Futurum

Social science for social change: the story of marriage equality in the US Published: For centuries, gay people have suffered discrimination, prejudice and persecution. Professor Michael Rosenfeld , a sociologist at Stanford University , has studied this dramatic change in public opinion. I was delighted to oblige!”

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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.

Energy 89
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Remembering the Improbable Life of Ed Fredkin (1934–2023) and His World of Ideas and Stories

Stephen Wolfram

He drives down to Woods Hole with a certain Henry Stommel —an oceanography professor at Harvard—who tells him about a “vortex ocean model”, and asks Ed if he can program it on a PDP-1 so that it displays ocean currents on a screen. So what happened is Marvin [Minsky] and I basically fleshed out the idea of a mathematical thing.