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The Metaverse Hype Died Down. Where Does That Leave Colleges That Invested In It?

ED Surge

A public community college in east Hollywood, it wasn’t one of the original schools that got grants to build out a “ metaversity ,” a digital alternative campus influenced by the tech company Meta. Los Angeles City College has spent some time trying to refine its metaverse.

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9 Good Collections of Videos for Education

Ask a Tech Teacher

Bright Science is a free YouTube channel of over 1300 study videos for high schoolers (or precocious middle schoolers). Most are about five minutes (some longer, some shorter) and cover topics like chemistry, physics, calculus, geometry, biology, Algebra, trigonometry, grammar, ACT prep, and SAT prep.

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Best STEM Summer Camps In Raleigh 2024

The Maker Mom

The North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences (NCMNS) The North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences (NCMS) opens its science-based summer camp for children and teenagers every year. Their summer camps use NCSU labs and classrooms as the venue for students to explore their interests in science and technology.

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Synthetic biology: the power of modified microbes

Futurum

Synthetic biologists use them like tiny workspaces for novel chemistry. (© Pathway from school to synthetic biologist Biomolecular science forms the knowledge foundation of synthetic biology. Sasha recommends taking biology and chemistry at college/post-16, as well as learning computational skills.

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Supporting small farms: how protecting local farms can protect local communities

Futurum

Pathway from school to small farms outreach • Studying science subjects at school is important. Many topics within biology, chemistry and geography could come in handy, including ecology, plant biochemistry and soil science. Many other subjects could also be useful. The SFRC offers internships and mentorships for students.

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A 50-Year Quest: My Personal Journey with the Second Law of Thermodynamics

Stephen Wolfram

In July I was making “encryption-friendly” pictures of rule 30: But what Jack and I were most interested in was doing something more “cryptographically sophisticated”, and in particular inventing a practical public-key cryptosystem based on cellular automata. And it’s basically still not been figured out (and maybe it’s actually impossible).

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Charting a Course for “Complexity”: Metamodeling, Ruliology and More

Stephen Wolfram

This is the first of a series of pieces I’m planning in connection with the upcoming 20th anniversary of the publication of A New Kind of Science. “There’s a Whole New Field to Build…” For me the story began nearly 50 years ago —with what I saw as a great and fundamental mystery of science.