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Does Our Academic System Unnecessarily Pit People Against Each Other?

ED Surge

So for this week’s podcast we’re diving into his argument, talking to a philosophy professor who studied with Hussain and regularly teaches the paper to his own students. That scholar is Hamish Russell, a graduate student and part-time assistant professor at the University of Toronto. That's right.

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How can first-year STEM university students be better supported?

Futurum

Library and research skills cover areas such as knowing how to reference and cite authors properly, being able to discern between reliable and unreliable sources of information, accessing scientific literature and giving accurate evidence-based arguments when writing scientific essays and reports.

Biology 81
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Animals in pain – who feels what?

Futurum

Published: At The University of Queensland in Australia, Professor Deborah Brown and Professor Brian Key have created a unique team of philosophers and neuroscientists to investigate which animals have the capacity to feel pain. PROFESSOR BRIAN KEY School of Biomedical Sciences, The University of Queensland, Australia.

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Should universities use differential treatment to admit students?

Futurum

The idea that exam results should be assessed differently based on a student’s socio-economic background is known as differential treatment, and Emil is investigating whether such policies can improve equality and efficiency in education and labour markets. As you can imagine, there are many arguments both for and against these ideas.

Economics 111
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Prosecuting rap: can we get racial discrimination out of the courtroom?

Futurum

This is a practice that an international network of scholars, including Professor Eithne Quinn from the University of Manchester in the UK, has found to be structurally racist. DEFENCE – (in court) the argument that the accused person should not be found guilty. DEFENDANT – the accused person in a court of law. Download the article.

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

Stephen Wolfram

But in 1834, Émile Clapeyron (1799–1864)—a rather distinguished French engineering professor (and steam engine designer)—wrote a paper entitled “ Memoir on the Motive Power of Heat ”. His book is mostly words, with just a few formulas related to the behavior of ideal gases, and some tables of actual parameters for particular materials.

Energy 90
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Storage solutions: can we reimagine the trade-offs that limit flash storage devices?

Futurum

PERFORMANCE – the speed at which data in a storage device can be accessed (latency) or how much data can be accessed in a given time (throughput). SSDs, on the other hand, are completely electronic, allow computers and devices faster access to information stored in them and consume less power than HDDs.