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How to Address Sea Level Risks in California Real Estate Transactions

Legal Planet

Most states, including California, fail to adequately apprise potential homebuyers of the physical, legal, and economic risks they need to consider in making a safe and prudent decision on a major financial investment. Despite the serious and costly risk of coastal flooding, waterfront properties remain alluring to home buyers in California.

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A distraction due to errors, misunderstanding and misguided Norwegian statistics

Real Climate

are used all over the world, based on calculations that quantify the effects of physical mechanisms and the way different parts of the atmosphere are connected to each other. The physics-based models describe how energy flows through the atmosphere and ocean, as well as how the forces from different air masses push against each other.

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Where did all the calculus go?

Physics World

He challenged me to defend the A-level physics curriculum, which he thought had been “dumbed down” and lacked any solid, mathematical rigour. Since then, I have had many similar conversations with other university physics lecturers who mourn the lack of mathematical fluency in their first-year undergraduate students.

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A new place for consciousness in our understanding of the universe

New Scientist

To make sense of mysteries like quantum mechanics and the passage of time, theorists are trying to reformulate physics to include subjective experience as a physical constituent of the world

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Towards a new equality narrative to encourage under-represented groups into physics

Physics World

Yet physics has lagged woefully behind in this regard, meaning it is failing to realize its potential by enabling students from all backgrounds to study and succeed in the subject. This work has been well researched and documented, but after four decades of concerted effort, barely 20% of students doing A-level physics are girls.

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The great upheaval in physics – through the eyes of a scientist who was there

Physics World

If you have studied physics beyond school, you will likely have heard of the Rayleigh–Jeans law – an equation that accurately approximates the spectral radiance of blackbody radiation at long wavelengths. The post The great upheaval in physics – through the eyes of a scientist who was there appeared first on Physics World.

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How can powered exoskeletons restore walking ability after stroke?

Physics World

Traditional therapy usually involves two or three physical therapists manually guiding a patient’s impaired limb to follow and reinforce the desired trajectories, which can be very labour-intensive and even unsafe,” explains first author Fangshi Zhu. “The For the stroke subjects, three motor modules were sufficient in their paretic leg.

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