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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 can we make STEM subjects more engaging for students?

Futurum

Published: At Point Park University in Pittsburgh in the US, education researchers Dr Ginny Chambers , Dr Kamryn York and Dr Mark Marnich are helping pre-service teachers develop their skills in STEM subjects to make learning more enjoyable and effective for their future students. How are maker spaces good for students? “Our Sounds great!

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On the frontline of the biomedical revolution

Futurum

Though we work long and sometimes unsociable hours, we have a good degree of flexibility. “I While people might work out to change their mechanical properties – Pilates to increase their flexibility, weightlifting to improve strength, and so on – so cells adapt their mechanical properties to fulfil their ultimate function.

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Urban farming for urban families

Futurum

At 15th Street Farm in Florida, USA, Emmanuel Roux and Professor David Himmelgreen run an education project to help local families learn about their local food systems and make healthier food choices. For those of us who live in cities, it can be difficult to find fresh, good quality, local food.

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

Stephen Wolfram

But he had a second hypothesis too—based, he said, on the ideas of “that most ingenious gentleman, Monsieur Descartes”: that instead air consists of “flexible particles” that are “so whirled around” that “each corpuscle endeavors to beat off all others”. Lazare Carnot died in 1823.

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