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Supporting small farms: how protecting local farms can protect local communities

Futurum

Supporting small farms: how protecting local farms can protect local communities Published: Small farms make up more than a half of the agricultural land in the US and produce just over a fifth of the country’s agricultural produce. Despite appearances, the vast majority of the food in our supermarkets started out in the dirt.

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Urban farming for urban families

Futurum

The 15th Street Farm NEP teaches its students about the links between agriculture, nutrition and wellness. This is critically important in light of modernisation and the disconnect between humans and the natural world.” What do students learn? Soil and plant health are interconnected with human health and well-being,” says David.

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Best STEM Summer Camps in Houston 2024

The Maker Mom

Houston has numerous innovative tech, agricultural, and aerospace research centers, so it’s a great place for STEM camps. Learn To Bot teaches children the basics of computer coding in an interactive way in weekly and 3-5 day blocks. Your child will have a ball at these fascinating Houston Museum of Natural Science camps!

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Synthetic biology: the power of modified microbes

Futurum

Ian’s team has a vision of building a ‘bio-based economy’ in Australia, focusing on ways to improve agriculture and waste processing through the creation of unique microbes. Pathway from school to synthetic biologist Biomolecular science forms the knowledge foundation of synthetic biology.

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Will AIs Take All Our Jobs and End Human History—or Not? Well, It’s Complicated…

Stephen Wolfram

And all I’ll be able to do here is give a snapshot of my current thinking—which will inevitably be incomplete—not least because, as I’ll discuss, trying to predict how history in an area like this will unfold is something that runs straight into an issue of basic science: the phenomenon of computational irreducibility.

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