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Are there ‘rules’ for conveying emotion through art?

Futurum

Explore careers in cognitive neuroscience • The Collaborative Program in Neuroscience (CPIN) at the University of Toronto has various public outreach programmes, including NeuroSci 101, an annual lecture series for high school students. I experienced collaborations between biology, engineering and social sciences with a playful attitude.

Biology 89
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Synthetic biology: the power of modified microbes

Futurum

Our team includes social science and humanities researchers who look at the policies and implications of synthetic biology,” says Ian. Microbes often get bad publicity, but this is starting to change and there are so many helpful, weird and wacky microbes out there that we are just beginning to learn about.

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Charting a Course for “Complexity”: Metamodeling, Ruliology and More

Stephen Wolfram

This is the first of a series of pieces I’m planning in connection with the upcoming 20th anniversary of the publication of A New Kind of Science. “There’s a Whole New Field to Build…” For me the story began nearly 50 years ago —with what I saw as a great and fundamental mystery of science.

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

Stephen Wolfram

But he continued to write physics papers, which ranged over many different areas, occasionally touching thermodynamics, though most often in the service of answering a “general science” question—like how old the Sun is (he estimated 32,000 years from thermodynamic arguments, though of course without knowledge of nuclear reactions).

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Urban farming for urban families

Futurum

The liberal arts consist of the natural sciences, like biology, ecology and neuroscience, formal sciences, like physics and maths, social sciences, and the humanities. Other skills that will help you become a successful anthropologist include research, writing and public speaking skills.