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How can engineering address human rights issues?

Futurum

The ability to travel to reach educational or employment opportunities is essential for ensuring social equality. The main aim of this student-led, community-driven project was to improve sanitation in Thastayoc by providing clean water and constructing latrines and bio-digesters for the community.

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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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Can AI Solve Science?

Stephen Wolfram

A lot of science—and technology—has been constructed specifically around computationally reducible phenomena. And that’s for example why things like mathematical formulas have been able to be as successful in science as they have. It’s not exactly “solving science”, and it wouldn’t even allow one to “discover the unexpected”.

Science 122
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What Image Comes to Your Mind When You Think of a “Doctor”?

National Science Foundation

There are many examples to share from the history of science on this topic. Strive for Equality of Access to Instruction and Assistance Be sure students are aware of resources for assistance at their school including counseling and help with testing and college applications. Teaching science with Hispanic ELLs in K-16 classrooms.

Biology 52
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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. And indeed particularly in chemistry and engineering it’s often been in the background, justifying all the computations routinely done using entropy.

Energy 88