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How Do You Grade a Creative Assignment?

ED Surge

I've thought about opening it up widely—write a historical novelette (using primary sources, of course), create a sculpture, write a song—but, again, I have no idea how to grade something like that, considering the wide range of talent that my students likely will have.

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

Futurum

I was especially interested in meteorology and astronomy – I love everything to do with the sky and weather. We distribute GIS software to the agencies that require it, create maps for different government departments and train members of other departments in how to process data using GIS. Todd’s top tips 1.

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Unexpected ways that paint prevents corrosion

Futurum

While the primary roles of the individual ingredients in paints are well-understood, the behaviour of the ingredients when combined is what these models aim to test. DR ANDREW PARNELL RESEARCH FELLOW, DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS AND ASTRONOMY, UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD, UK. This data is very precious for scientific communities.

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

Stephen Wolfram

In 1845 Kelvin (as we’ll call him) had spent some time in Paris (primarily at at a lab that was measuring properties of steam for the French government), and there he’d learned about Carnot’s work from Clapeyron’s paper (at first he couldn’t get a copy of Carnot’s actual book). But first we have to go back a bit in the story.

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