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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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How can engineering address human rights issues?

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The ability to travel to reach educational or employment opportunities is essential for ensuring social equality. Davis has been working with Ashley Benítez Ou, a geography PhD student at the University of Connecticut, and their research has revealed significant differences in access to opportunities between different districts in Cusco.

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Top tips for engaging your STEM students

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Geography students can demonstrate their understanding of contours by constructing a topographic model of a mapped landscape out of modelling clay. While experiments have a key role in biology (e.g., growing plants), chemistry (e.g., performing chemical reactions) and physics (e.g.,

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Indoor STEM Activities for Kids

STEM Sport

Below are five engineering activities that use everyday items: Popsicle Stick Bridges: Use popsicle sticks and glue to construct bridges. This is a fun way to explore geometric shapes and stability in construction. Homemade Pendulum: Construct a simple pendulum by suspending a weight from a string.

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A rocky revolution: Can virtual 3D models transform the teaching of geology?

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Contour — a line on a map joining points of equal elevation. Before any building is constructed, a geologist must assess the underlying rock to ensure the foundations will be stable. Engineering geologists assess ground characteristics before any construction work occurs, to ensure buildings and roads will not collapse.

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Games and Puzzles as Multicomputational Systems

Stephen Wolfram

But with the multicomputational paradigm there are now some more general concepts that can be applied to these constructs. Imagine that rather than playing a specific game, we instead at each step just make every possible move with equal probability. The Geography Game. The Icosian Game & Some Relatives. &#10005.

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The Physicalization of Metamathematics and Its Implications for the Foundations of Mathematics

Stephen Wolfram

When most working mathematicians do mathematics it seems to be typical for them to reason as if the constructs they’re dealing with (whether they be numbers or sets or whatever) are “real things”. And we can think of that ultimate machine code as operating on things that are in effect just abstract constructs—very much like in mathematics.