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Are there ‘rules’ for conveying emotion through art?

Futurum

It’s likely that some of what you learn about the brain in school will be outdated by the time you do research. I experienced collaborations between biology, engineering and social sciences with a playful attitude. At school, an art teacher taught me the basics of drawing and painting.

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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. Pathway from school to synthetic biologist Biomolecular science forms the knowledge foundation of synthetic biology.

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Imaging the invisible: how can research software and imaging techniques help scientists study the things we can’t see?

Futurum

Because computational methods originated in the natural sciences, some disciplines, such as chemistry and physics, have lots of research software at their disposal. DR JOANNA LENG School of Computing, University of Leeds, UK. Funder : Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC). Pathway from school to RSE.

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

Stephen Wolfram

And one of the great feelings of power has been that even in fields—like the social sciences—where there haven’t really been much more than “verbal” models before, it’s now appeared possible to get models that at least seem much more “scientific”. In some ways, ruliology is like natural science.

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Urban farming for urban families

Futurum

Combined, their expertise brings people and communities together through an appreciation of nutritious food, farming and the natural world. The 15th Street Farm NEP is serving school-aged children and families who primarily live in marginalised communities,” explains David. Who is the 15th Street Farm NEP designed for?

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

Stephen Wolfram

After graduating in 1844 he started teaching at a top high school in Berlin (which he did for 6 years), and meanwhile earned his PhD in physics. At 10 he went to an upscale school in Edinburgh, and by the age of 14 had written his first scientific paper. His career took off after his breakout paper on thermodynamics appeared in 1850.

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