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Best Teacher Supplies for Classroom (on Amazon)

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How can engineering address human rights issues?

Futurum

Across Peru, thousands of people do not have access to clean water or efficient transport links. He is investigating the connection between poor transport links and social inequality, and bringing sanitation to a remote community in the Andes. HOW DOES PUBLIC TRANSPORT AFFECT INEQUALITY?

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Can we use mud to understand climate change?

Futurum

Oceans are a key part of the Earth’s climate system, responsible for transporting heat and storing carbon from the atmosphere, and several large ocean current systems contribute to this. This is partly responsible for Europe having a warm climate, as the AMOC transports up to 25% of the Northern Hemisphere’s atmospheric and oceanic heat.

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STEM Statistics For 2023 (Education, Diversity, Careers)

The Maker Mom

For instance, in the social sciences, women hold an impressive 64% share of the workforce. The automobile industry is amid a shift toward all-electric vehicles, and STEM degree holders will have a distinct advantage in the changing transportation landscape. This is an increase of 45% since 1970.

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

Stephen Wolfram

Already the steam-engine works our mines, impels our ships, excavates our ports and our rivers, forges iron, fashions wood, grinds grain, spins and weaves our cloths, transports the heaviest burdens, etc. He introduced the Boltzmann Transport Equation which allows one to compute at least certain non-equilibrium properties of gases.

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

Stephen Wolfram

We’ll be able to say some things—though perhaps in ways that are closer to psychology or social science than to traditional exact science. Things are happening in it—as they are in the weather—that we can’t readily predict. But there’ll be surprises—like maybe some strange AI analog of a hurricane or an ice age.

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Remembering the Improbable Life of Ed Fredkin (1934–2023) and His World of Ideas and Stories

Stephen Wolfram

Ed was a serious (and, by all reports, exceptionally good) pilot—with an airplane transport pilot license (plus seaplane and glider licenses). Gliders are usually transported with their wings removed, with the wings attached in order to fly. Ed also had gliders, and competed in gliding competitions.