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Environmental Intelligence

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Environmental Intelligence at University of Exeter

Language: English Studies in English
Subject area: physical science, environment
University website: www.exeter.ac.uk

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Intelligence
Intelligence has been defined in many different ways to include the capacity for logic, understanding, self-awareness, learning, emotional knowledge, reasoning, planning, creativity, and problem solving. It can be more generally described as the ability to perceive or infer information, and to retain it as knowledge to be applied towards adaptive behaviors within an environment or context.
Intelligence
She had found the answer to her affliction—conformity! She had already learned to conceal her intelligence. So many of us break our hearts before we learn that.
Mark Clifton, in Star, Bright. Originally published in Galaxy magazine (July 1952); collected in Fadiman (ed.) The Mathematical Magpie, p. 75
Intelligence
It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value.
Arthur C. Clarke, clarkefoundation.org
Intelligence
The eulogies of my intelligence are positively intended to evade the question “Is what she says true?”
Simone Weil, Letter to her parents, 1943
Solar power is potentially an almost limitless resource. The sun provides enough energy in one minute to supply the world’s energy needs for one year. But turning this resource into affordable electricity is difficult – silicon-based solar cells still suffer from a decline in their effectiveness over time. Through her ERC-funded SOLARX project, Professor Hele Savin, of Aalto University in Finland, is investigating a possible route to solving this problem.
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