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

ED Surge

But the concept resonated, says Marcy Drummond, the college’s vice president of economic and social mobility innovation. 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.

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From Scientist to Shareholder: Why do it?

Scientix

In Natural Sciences, students often struggle to understand and apply science topics, and have difficulties imagining or realizing their importance and application in real life. It combines real-life news stories (including technology news) from normative sources with business economics and GHG emissions. Career choice.

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How do bacteria help and harm crops?

Futurum

Plant pathologists across the globe are working in laboratories, greenhouses and fields to prevent and reduce the loss of life and economic impacts caused by plant diseases such as these. “I I am happy that my work can help farmers produce crops in more economically efficient and environmentally friendly ways.

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

Futurum

Maths and economics could be useful when helping farmers with their finances, and law could be useful when helping farmers navigate legal issues that they might face. • The SFRC employs people who major in agriculture, animal science, biology, microbiology, soil science, agricultural economics and other related fields. •

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Will AIs Take All Our Jobs and End Human History—or Not? Well, It’s Complicated…

Stephen Wolfram

And that term immediately brings to mind wages, economics, etc. And, yes, plenty of what people do (at least in the world as it is today) is driven by issues of economics. And indeed it’s the basic driver for most of the processes of economics. Yes, we can do natural science to figure out some aspects of what’s going to happen.

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

Stephen Wolfram

But it really wasn’t physics, or computer science, or math, or biology, or economics, or any known field. In some ways, ruliology is like natural science. It’s taking the computational universe as an abstracted analog of nature, and studying how things work in it. But at least it would have a home.

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The Concept of the Ruliad

Stephen Wolfram

The global structures of metamathematics , economics , linguistics and evolutionary biology seem likely to provide examples—and in each case we can expect that at the core is the ruliad, with its unique structure. And this is where our pieces of “falsifiable natural science” come in.

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