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How we read: the neuroscience behind literacy

Futurum

Typically, we learn how to read well after we learn how to speak, and it is theorised that reading builds upon our speech production system. Imagine a child learning to read, being taught by an adult,” says Jacqueline. Reading also becomes progressively more difficult to learn as we age, as our brains become less adaptable. “If

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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 Routine jobs might not satisfy your need to answer questions and learn more. Their elasticity changes, and the cells become more flexible, helping them to detach from the tumour and spread throughout the body.” Practise your maths.

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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. When have you taken a hands-on approach in a lesson?

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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. What do students learn? The outdoor learning results in greater student engagement and impacts human and environmental wellness.

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What Is ChatGPT Doing … and Why Does It Work?

Stephen Wolfram

And—as we’ll discuss later—these weights are normally determined by “training” the neural net using machine learning from examples of the outputs we want.) In each case, as we’ll explain later, we’re using machine learning to find the best choice of weights. should we be using?

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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”. But first we have to go back a bit in the story.

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The Physicalization of Metamathematics and Its Implications for the Foundations of Mathematics

Stephen Wolfram

And if we’re going to make a “general theory of mathematics” a first step is to do something like we’d typically do in natural science, and try to “drill down” to find a uniform underlying model—or at least representation—for all of them. We can view these in some sense as the “observed phenomena” of (human) mathematics.