Curiosity: The Story of a Mars Rover

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The ability to stimulate curiosity, on the other hand, can save lives, as Scheherazade experienced in the 1001 nights she told cliffhanger stories that needed to be finished before she was ready to die. Obviously, as a mother and teacher, I focus on stimulating curiosity, rather than punishing it, as it is part of effective learning. That's the theory, anyway. Curiosity, under Leslie’s careful examination, is revealed in a way that makes the reader, well, more curious. The book travels into the realms of the philosophical, historical, social and economical. It places curiosity at the crossroads where necessity and danger meet. It is an exploration that leaves the reader feeling like a cold war spy, bound to their dangerous duty to be curious yet cautious about how they reveal their motives. Build the database. Eureka moments: they arise from the gathering and working over - the slow, deliberate, patient accumulation of knowledge. I've been slow-reading this, and remember the era of the first few chapters when the two main types of curiosity are discussed - Diversive (shallow/fleeting) and Epistemic (deep/effortful). There is also Empathic curiosity.

Unlike some other Internet alarmists, though, Leslie does not damn the Web completely, but simply concludes that it's a wonderful tool for the truly curious, and a damaging distraction for those who either have little curiosity or only a superficial desire to be amused for seconds at a time. He also cites studies to show that, besides such character traits as resilience and determination, the biggest factor in future life success, according to some meta-analyses, is the acquisition of core knowledge. Ulysses, like the other souls in Dante’s Hell, suffers a punishment that he himself has fashioned during his own limited course of his relations with his Maker. In Dante’s imagination, we, not God, are responsible for our actions and for their consequences. Dante’s world is not the world of Homer, where whimsical gods play with our human destinies for their entertainment or private purpose. God, Dante believes, has given each of us certain abilities and possibilities, but also the gift of free will, which allows us to make our own choices and assume the consequences of those choices. Even the quality of the punishment itself is, according to Dante, determined by our transgression. Ulysses is condemned to burn invisibly in the forked flame because his sin, counseling others to practise fraud, is furtive, and since he has committed it through speech, through his tongue, it is in tongues of flame that he is eternally tortured. In Dante’s hell, every punishment has a reason.Curiosity has always constituted an evolutionary advantage. In a complex world that’s even more true as it’s impossible to know what might be useful in the future. Hence it’s important to spread our cognitive bets, i.e. to be curious. Curiosity as a personality trait is a solid predictor of academic and professional success. We hear the term “intellectual curiosity” bantered about so often these days. Ian Leslie goes beyond the rhetoric to remove any ambiguity about what this term really means and why it’s something that we need to embrace. He does so without preaching and also shows the reader HOW to accomplish the embrace. Alberto Manguel (born 1948 in Buenos Aires) is an Argentine-born writer, translator, and editor. He is the author of numerous non-fiction books such as The Dictionary of Imaginary Places (co-written with Gianni Guadalupi in 1980) and A History of Reading (1996) The Library at Night (2007) and Homer's Iliad and Odyssey: A Biography (2008), and novels such as News From a Foreign Country Came (1991). Kitabın sonlarına doğru yeralan Dante’nin Cehennem, Araf ve Cennet haritalarını gösteren üç ayrı şekil de sürpriz bir toparlama oldu. Sonuçta Alberto Manguel, Dante’nin “İlahi Komedya”sını hayali bir evrensel müzeye, bilinçdışı korkular ve arzuların icra edilebileceği bir sahneye, bir şairin tutkusu ve vizyonundan doğmuş her şeyin bizi aydınlatmak için düzenlendiği ve sergilendiği bir kütüphaneye benzetiyor. My class absolutely love anything related to space so I am looking forward to adding this one to my book corner.

Whoever you are and whatever start you get in life, knowing stuff makes the world more abundant with possibility and gleams of light more likely to illuminate the darkness. It opens the universe a little.” p.193

Highly recommended for any science-curious children and any rover-obsessed grown-ups (like myself)! The story is told from the perspective of Curiosity itself, and that plus the eye in the cover picture made me a bit wary, because it can be easy for the personification of non-human characters to distract from the story or veer into absurdity. But I think it works here. Curiosity's story is still told in a straightforward, nonfictional manner -- the personification wasn't done for entertainment value but instead to help keep the narrative relatable and focused. Like all skills, these techniques take practice. But anyone who sincerely wants to bridge the gaps in understanding will appreciate this book. Guzman is emphatic about making an effort to work on difficult conversations." -Manhattan Book Review Manguel é dono de uma impressionante biblioteca com mais de 30 000 volumes, que tem transportado consigo ao longo da sua vida pelos vários países em que viveu — Israel, Argentina, Canada e França. we felt something was missing. Then we saw The Curiosity Approach and everything fell into place. This was what we were striving for – to step outside