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Transforming Adult Students into Scholars

ED Surge

Each of them has already earned at least 45 college credits—equal to about three semesters—and desires to complete a degree. As for primary sources, the professor suggests looking for a map, or a ship’s record, or a diary entry. That they devote days, years, lifetimes to understanding a sliver of biology, physics, history.

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

Futurum

The application has since been taken up by lots of agencies, including the Council for Environmental Equality at the White House. I was especially interested in meteorology and astronomy – I love everything to do with the sky and weather. In high school, I focused on math and science as my main interests were in geometry and biology.

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

Stephen Wolfram

This proof is easily obtained, however, by the method which I am about to explain… (He gives a long footnote explaining why Maxwell might be wrong, talking about how a sequence of collisions might lead to a “cycle of velocity states”—which Maxwell hasn’t proved will be traversed with equal probability in each direction.

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