Failure to plan for rising temperatures has left UK’s schools sweltering
许多建筑物的使用时间都超过了预期寿命,但即使是较新的设计也缺乏抵御高温的措施。要了解英国未能针对气候危机的影响制定计划,伦敦西部的 Beaconsfield 小学就是最好的例子,那里一栋已有 100 多年历史的建筑比其建于不到 10 年的邻居更好地应对极端温度。这栋建筑已有 130 年的历史,采用坚固的砖墙建造,冬天可以保持温暖,夏天可以隔绝热量,所以即使在本周,室内也开始变得不舒服,但仍然可以忍受。”比肯斯菲尔德的校长 Dave Woods 说。继续阅读...
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NSF Cuts Hundreds of Science Program Budgets by Up To 30%
根据《科学》杂志 6 月 18 日获得的一份备忘录,美国国家科学基金会 (NSF) 已削减本财年剩余时间内数百个基础科学项目的预算。
作者:蒂姆·曼森 (Tim Manson) 北爱尔兰新课程的课程框架草案今天发布以供咨询。 TransformED 课程在过去一年中一直在进行中,旨在改变......继续阅读 →
Soil Biogeochemistry Models Omit Key Processes Due to Geographic Bias
Popular soil biogeochemistry models inadequately represent regionally-important processes and lack transferability, resulting in poor predictions of soil organic carbon stocks in sub-Saharan Africa.
3 Pandas Tricks for Data Cleaning & Preparation
在本文中,我们将介绍有效清理和准备数据的三个基本 Pandas 技巧:声明性方法链接、通过分类和向量化字符串访问器进行内存和速度优化,以及使用 .transform() 进行组感知插补。
Leading Together: How a Co-Designed Vision Anchors Staff and Beats Burnout
仔细观察几乎所有学区或学校的前台办公室,您都会发现一份框架精美的愿景声明。这些宣言通常充满鼓舞人心的流行语:“卓越”、“全球公民”、“协同”和“创新”。 Yet, if you walk down the hallways and ask classroom teachers what that vision means for their daily practice, you are often met with blank stares or polite shrugs.In traditional educational leadership models, the school vi
Seminar teaches how to ‘resist anti-Black linguistic racism,’ ‘build linguistic justice’
Manchester Metropolitan University recently hosted a seminar on resisting anti-Black linguistic racism, featuring scholars April Baker-Bell and Davena Jackson. They discussed the oppressive systems affecting Black language speakers and proposed transformative pedagogies to challenge anti-Blackness i
The Nationalization of American Science
Alex Tabarrok 在边际革命博客上:OMB 与大约 40 个拨款机构(其中包括 NSF、HHS、DOE、NASA、DOD)一起提议全面重写管理所有联邦拨款的规则,即《联邦财政援助条例》。美国科学长期以来一直由国家资助,但不受国家指导。自万尼瓦尔布什以来,资金已通过许多机构流向独立大学,[...]