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Are there ‘rules’ for conveying emotion through art?

Futurum

This could involve creating calming spaces in airports, fostering wonder in educational settings, or promoting joy in retirement communities,” suggests Pinaki. I experienced collaborations between biology, engineering and social sciences with a playful attitude. My PhD in computational and neural systems was a formational time.

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Best Academic Research Tools for Researchers and Educators

Educators Technology

While my academic background is in the social sciences and more specifically educational studies, I believe that regardless of your discipline, social sciences or natural sciences, the research process, structurally speaking, is more or less the same.

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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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Imaging the invisible: how can research software and imaging techniques help scientists study the things we can’t see?

Futurum

Because computational methods originated in the natural sciences, some disciplines, such as chemistry and physics, have lots of research software at their disposal. Lawrence has worked with museums, educators, scientists and historians to create a variety of artworks. “In

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

Stephen Wolfram

Sadi Carnot was born in 1796, and was largely educated by his father until he went to college in 1812. Sadi Carnot was by that point a well-educated but professionally undistinguished French military engineer. His father was a math professor, ultimately in Glasgow, who took a great interest in the education of his children.

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

Stephen Wolfram

Sales or education jobs where one wants “human persuasion” or “human encouragement”. Processes in nature—like, for example, the weather—can be thought of as corresponding to computations. Yes, we can do natural science to figure out some aspects of what’s going to happen. So what does this mean for education?

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