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How can engineering address human rights issues?

Futurum

Across Peru, thousands of people do not have access to clean water or efficient transport links. He is investigating the connection between poor transport links and social inequality, and bringing sanitation to a remote community in the Andes. HOW DOES PUBLIC TRANSPORT AFFECT INEQUALITY?

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Games and Puzzles as Multicomputational Systems

Stephen Wolfram

Imagine that rather than playing a specific game, we instead at each step just make every possible move with equal probability. The setup for tic-tac-toe is symmetrical enough that for most of the game the probability of every possible configuration at a given step is equal. The Geography Game. &#10005.

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