Futurum

JUNE 30, 2022

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?

Engineering 98

Engineering Transportation Geography Accessibility 98

The Maker Mom

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

For instance, in the social sciences, women hold an impressive 64% share of the workforce. There is still room for improvement in computer and engineering occupations, but the overall trend is upward toward equality. Women have gained a substantial foothold within certain categories of STEM careers.

STEM 52

STEM Education Education Equality 52

Stephen Wolfram

JANUARY 31, 2023

Already the steam-engine works our mines, impels our ships, excavates our ports and our rivers, forges iron, fashions wood, grinds grain, spins and weaves our cloths, transports the heaviest burdens, etc. He introduced the Boltzmann Transport Equation which allows one to compute at least certain non-equilibrium properties of gases.

Energy 88

Energy Physics Argumentation Mathematics 88

Stephen Wolfram

MARCH 15, 2023

One of them is that one can expect to make something equally computationally sophisticated out of all sorts of different kinds of things—whether brain tissue or electronics, or some system in nature. We’ll be able to say some things—though perhaps in ways that are closer to psychology or social science than to traditional exact science.

Computer 105

Computer Biology Mathematics Economics 105