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Best Open Access Journals and Scholarly Articles for Research Students

Educators Technology

Check them out and if you have other suggestions to add to the list, make sure to share with us on our social media channels. Subjects covered include history, physics, psychology, chemistry, computer science, life sciences, mathematics, geography, education, business, law, environment, energy, and many more.

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How can engineering address human rights issues?

Futurum

How can engineering address human rights issues? Dr Davis Chacon-Hurtado , a Peruvian engineer at the University of Connecticut in the US, is using a human rights-based approach to engineering to solve these problems. TALK LIKE A HUMANITARIAN ENGINEER. Published: June 30, 2022. HOW DOES PUBLIC TRANSPORT AFFECT INEQUALITY?

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What’s Wrong With STEM Education: How to Address the Problems

STEM Education Guide

Although STEM subjects get a lot of attention when it comes to world-changing innovation, they are just responsible for the physical manifestation of innovation. There are social sciences and understanding the people’s needs and wants to give the masses exactly what they need at the moment.

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

Stephen Wolfram

But by the end of the 1800s, with the existence of molecules increasingly firmly established, the Second Law began to often be treated as an almost-mathematically-proven necessary law of physics. The theory of heat will hereafter form one of the most important branches of general physics.

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Can AI Solve Science?

Stephen Wolfram

A key idea—ultimately supported at a foundational level by our Physics Project —is that we can think of everything that happens as a computational process. In 2019 I was doing another systematic enumeration, now of possible hypergraph rewriting rules that might correspond to the lowest-level structure of our physical universe.

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Remembering the Improbable Life of Ed Fredkin (1934–2023) and His World of Ideas and Stories

Stephen Wolfram

Indeed, so confident was he of his programming prowess that he became convinced that he should in effect be able to write a program for the universe—and make all of physics into a programming problem. It didn’t help that his knowledge of physics was at best spotty (and, for example, I don’t think he ever really learned calculus).

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The power of geographic information systems: bringing data to life with maps

Futurum

I began my career in the technical side of GIS, but I have been wooed to the social sciences. This involves taking a holistic approach when thinking about the city’s relationship with the environment across social boundaries. At school, I gravitated towards the social sciences.