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Urban farming for urban families

Futurum

In the early 1990s, I was doing my doctoral research in Lesotho, Southern Africa. Food insecurity is a longstanding global problem that is tied to political, economic and social inequalities and inequities. Other skills that will help you become a successful anthropologist include research, writing and public speaking skills.

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

Stephen Wolfram

And it seemed only natural to label what could now be done as “ complex systems theory ”: a theory of systems that show complexity, even from simple rules. And while they used computers as practical tools, they never made the jump to seeing computation as a core paradigm for thinking about science. It’s been 36 years now.

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

Stephen Wolfram

There was one major exception, however, in 1738, when—as part of his eclectic mathematical career spanning probability theory, elasticity theory, biostatistics, economics and more— Daniel Bernoulli (1700–1782) published his book on hydrodynamics.

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