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The Metaverse Hype Died Down. Where Does That Leave Colleges That Invested In It?

ED Surge

But the concept resonated, says Marcy Drummond, the college’s vice president of economic and social mobility innovation. Some of the initial lessons that the university wanted to create, like organic chemistry and anatomy labs, required details that raised the expense and priced the school out. “I

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How do bacteria help and harm crops?

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Plant pathologists across the globe are working in laboratories, greenhouses and fields to prevent and reduce the loss of life and economic impacts caused by plant diseases such as these. “I Pathway from school to plant pathology • As well as studying biology and chemistry at school, try to get practical experience of working with plants.

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From Scientist to Shareholder: Why do it?

Scientix

It is therefore vital that students see the benefits – for themselves and their societies – of learning national sciences such as biology, chemistry, and physics. It combines real-life news stories (including technology news) from normative sources with business economics and GHG emissions. Career choice.

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

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Pathway from school to small farms outreach • Studying science subjects at school is important. Many topics within biology, chemistry and geography could come in handy, including ecology, plant biochemistry and soil science. Many other subjects could also be useful. The SFRC offers internships and mentorships for students. . •

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

Stephen Wolfram

But it really wasn’t physics, or computer science, or math, or biology, or economics, or any known field. In some ways, ruliology is like natural science. It’s taking the computational universe as an abstracted analog of nature, and studying how things work in it. But at least it would have a home.

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

Stephen Wolfram

And indeed particularly in chemistry and engineering it’s often been in the background, justifying all the computations routinely done using entropy. As a practical matter, thermodynamics in its basic equilibrium form nevertheless became very widely used in engineering and in chemistry.

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Urban farming for urban families

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Food insecurity is a longstanding global problem that is tied to political, economic and social inequalities and inequities. The liberal arts consist of the natural sciences, like biology, ecology and neuroscience, formal sciences, like physics and maths, social sciences, and the humanities.