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How can place attachment improve scientific literacy?

Futurum

Ben is working with Dr Julia Parrish, a professor at the University of Washington, who is also the Executive Director of the Coastal Observation and Seabird Survey Team (COASST), an environmental, hands-on citizen science programme. Citizen science allows people to choose what project appeals to them, and engage in ways suited to them.

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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. Regardless of whether differential treatment is considered fair, the efficiency rationale gives researchers and policymakers another way to look at how and why public policies should consider socio-economic factors.

Economics 111
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Prosecuting rap: can we get racial discrimination out of the courtroom?

Futurum

DEFENCE – (in court) the argument that the accused person should not be found guilty. DEFENCE – (in court) the argument that the accused person should not be found guilty. FIELDS OF RESEARCH: American Studies, Criminology, Cultural Studies. FUNDER: Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC).

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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. How did social science influence the fight for marriage equality? Most social science does not change policy right away,” says Michael. “I

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

Stephen Wolfram

He starts off by saying about Carnot’s book: The idea which serves as a basis of his researches seems to me to be both fertile and beyond question; his demonstrations are founded on the absurdity of the possibility of creating motive power or heat out of nothing.

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

Stephen Wolfram

In the mid-1990s, researching history for my book A New Kind of Science , (as I’ll discuss below) I had a detailed email exchange and long phone conversation with Ed about this. Richard Feynman and I would get into very fierce arguments. As he told it : I never pressed any issue that would sort of give me credit, okay?

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Can AI Solve Science?

Stephen Wolfram

of what’s now Wolfram Language —we were trying to develop algorithms to compute hundreds of mathematical special functions over very broad ranges of arguments. But when it comes to mathematical research, and the frontiers of mathematics, one doesn’t immediately expect any such constraint. So might AI change that?

Science 123