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How we read: the neuroscience behind literacy

Futurum

There is a lot of ‘tradition’ with regards to ideas and approaches, which I feel can sometimes impede our ability to move science forward efficiently. I hope that initiatives to increase diversity and inclusion can alter this trajectory, making space for a more holistic, flexible and nuanced approach to advancing knowledge.

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

Stephen Wolfram

And indeed particularly in chemistry and engineering it’s often been in the background, justifying all the computations routinely done using entropy. As a practical matter, thermodynamics in its basic equilibrium form nevertheless became very widely used in engineering and in chemistry.

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Urban farming for urban families

Futurum

To overcome this, they made the NEP dynamic and flexible so that it could be adapted depending on the age and interests of the students taking part. The liberal arts consist of the natural sciences, like biology, ecology and neuroscience, formal sciences, like physics and maths, social sciences, and the humanities.