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9 Good Collections of Videos for Education

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This placed the responsibility for learning on the students, using teacher-prescribed methods, even though decades of research screamed that lots of kids perform better with images than pages filled with black-and-white text. Now there are dozens of online free educational videos that address most every academic topic imaginable.

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Numbers and networks: how can we use mathematics to assess the resilience of global supply chains?

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I am also interested in bringing more researchers from diverse fields together in this discussion,” says Zach. Researchers from all disciplines will have to work together to find solutions to these problems, and mathematicians like Zach will have a big role to play. FIELD OF RESEARCH: Mathematics. Math really is everywhere!”

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

Stephen Wolfram

Sadi Carnot was born in 1796, and was largely educated by his father until he went to college in 1812. Sadi Carnot was by that point a well-educated but professionally undistinguished French military engineer. Lazare Carnot died in 1823.

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