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To Serve All of Our Students, 'We Have to Do Something Different'

ED Surge

Similarly in schools, we put a lot of focus on giving all students the same thing (equality), and perhaps not enough on giving each student what they need (equity). In Avashia’s’s class, the focus was equally on what those enterprising entrepreneurs built, on what was created and what was lost.

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What can stars reveal about galaxies and what can cultures reveal about stars?

Futurum

LIGHT-YEAR – the distance travelled by light in one year (equal to ~9,000,000,000,000 km). Raja was part of the team that created the first ever digital photo mosaic of the Andromeda galaxy, constructed by stitching together 57 images taken by a ground-based telescope. I think there are parallels between art and astronomy.

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LLM Tech and a Lot More: Version 13.3 of Wolfram Language and Mathematica

Stephen Wolfram

We introduced Duration to apply to explicit time constructs, things like Audio objects, etc. that isn’t directly related to typing, but will help in the construction of easy-to-navigate user interfaces. Squiggled : By default, all these constructs persist through evaluation. What about other kinds of constructs?

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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. That is the construction of many, many hands over time,” he says. It’s designed for students new to the University of Virginia—but not entirely new to higher education. She talked to admissions counselors.

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

Futurum

Whenever anyone wants to build anything, they must submit an environmental impact statement to show how the environmental impacts of the construction will be minimised. The application has since been taken up by lots of agencies, including the Council for Environmental Equality at the White House.

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Zero-g and Me

The Blog of Phyz

I am still waiting for that day but I have traveled into the stratosphere aboard NASA's Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA). I doubt amusement parks will be constructing such a ride anytime soon, but NASA has. Although I was exploring space as an engineer, I wanted to travel into space someday. s of true free fall.

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

Stephen Wolfram

It began partly as an empirical law, and partly as something abstractly constructed on the basis of the idea of molecules, that nobody at the time knew for sure existed. But what’s important for our purposes here is that in the setup Carnot constructed he basically ended up introducing the Second Law.

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