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Bringing Better STEM Education to the Rural South

ED Surge

The curriculum aligns with the principles of Next Generation Science Standards. The most important thing for me is to do social science that can be replicated by other people,” Schneider says, adding she hopes more HBCUs will join the project. Other challenges seem to have set back STEM education, too.

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Cyber security for the AI age

Futurum

Burcu believes that it is vital for tomorrow’s cyber security professionals to understand not only the technical side of the challenge, but also human behaviour and social sciences. To my astonishment, my studies took me into the social sciences. I quickly learnt the problem of cyber security is not just technical.

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Here’s What to Know Before Studying Abroad in the US

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Luckily, universities in the United States offer a lot of flexibility to help pick a major. are STEM courses, business management, mathematics, social sciences, and liberal arts. What to Study. It is common for people not to know what major they want as a career option. Type of Student Visa.

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Creating software that works for everyone

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John agrees that combining studies in computing with science, social science or business courses will not only give you a broader education but will allow you to apply your software engineering skills in a wider range of applications (e.g., finance, manufacturing, agriculture, etc.). •

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Urban farming for urban families

Futurum

To overcome this, they made the NEP dynamic and flexible so that it could be adapted depending on the age and interests of the students taking part. The liberal arts consist of the natural sciences, like biology, ecology and neuroscience, formal sciences, like physics and maths, social sciences, and the humanities.

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Can AI Solve Science?

Stephen Wolfram

Yes, there can be a lot of flexibility in this model. Beyond the “Exact Sciences” In areas like the physical sciences we’re used to the idea of being able to develop broad theories that can do things like make quantitative predictions. But one can’t have a truly “model-less model”. So might AI change that?

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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”.

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