Curiosity: The Story of a Mars Rover

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and aesthetically pleasing play spaces for children using provocations, loose parts and open-end resources. It’s amazing to see us all have light bulb In Curious Ian Leslie makes a passionate case for the cultivation of our desire to know. Curious people tend to be smarter, more creative and more successful. But at the very moment when the rewards of curiosity have never been higher, it is misunderstood and undervalued, and increasingly practised only by a cognitive elite. 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. Fiquei com uma tremenda você de ler “A divina comédia”, livro que Manguel cita em quase todas as páginas deste livro. Em "Curiosity" Manguel recorre a uma mescla entre memórias da sua vida e as obras do cânone ocidental que faz desfilar na nossa frente por meio dos eventos da "Divina Comédia" (1320) de Dante. Posso dizer que nas primeiras 100 páginas funciona brilhantemente. Manguel sintetiza imensas visões literárias ao longo dos últimos 2500 anos sobre o que é a curiosidade e a sua importância para a nossa espécie. Contudo depois perde o foco, mesmo utilizando Dante e Virgilio para o guiar no resto da jornada, dedica as restantes 300 páginas a simplesmente vaguear pela literatura mundial, pescando ideias soltas aqui e ali, sem qualquer objeto ou motivo.

It is such an achievement for myself and my team for be on this journey. I believe we will always be on this journey constantly reflecting and thrivingDante dizelerini, kantolarını zihnindeki edebi, bilimsel, teolojik ve felsefi kaynaklardan ve olağanüstü günlük hayat gözlemlerinden faydalanarak yazmış. Manguel, merak dışında neyi bilmek isrediğimiz, nasıl akıl yürüttüğümüz, nasıl sorguladığımız, neye sahip olabiliriz gibi bazı soruların yanısıra dil, benlik, yerimiz, hayvan, farklılıklarımız, hakikat gibi konuları Dante ve “İlahi Komedya”da aramış, iz sürmüş. Bazı bölümlerde (örneğin nasıl sorgularız bölümü gibi) çok ayrıntıya kaçmış, teolojik açıklamlar özellikle de Talmud üzerinde gereğinden çok bilgi-yorum yapmış. Buna karşın hayvanlar bölümünde Dante’nin anlaşılmaz bir şekilde “köpekler” için çok olumsuz, aşağılayıcı sıfatlar kullanmasını irdelemesi çok ilginç geldi bana, hem “İlahi Komedya”daki içerik hem de Manguel’in yorumu açısından. I was motivated to read _Curious_ because my girlfriend and I were interested in understanding the difference in our relative levels of curiosity. We observed that I demonstrate particularly more curiosity than she does. For example, I regularly struggle to not compulsively, and rudely, take out my phone during dinner to search for an answer to some unknown question that arises during dinner conversation. I am also often distracted by the exploration of some random topic, be it virtual reality, or artificial intelligence, or crustacean aquaculture. We wanted to know if there were methods to help her discover topics of interest, particularly in the context of searching for an interesting career path. I particularly enjoyed the analysis of the correlation between knowledge and curiosity, and that learning more about a topic creates more interest in it. As a grown-up, I am responsible for giving my children a basis of knowledge that opens up wider horizons for them to be curious about. It is not enough to hand them a laptop and tell them to explore whatever they are interested in. The randomness of the information they will find online will rather kill their wish to know more than make them develop further interest in it. Hello, friends! Our book today is Curiosity: The Story Of A Mars Rover by Markus Motum, a fun- and fact-filled look at the titular robot.

That day my curiosity was satisfied, with unforeseen consequences. I learned the hard way how hot a light bulb can get, how delicate my skin was and how not everything is as it seems. Sometimes, the protective glass ends but the fun display keeps going. And, don’t use your finger, use a tool! What piqued your curiosity about this post? Why is curiosity important? is an innately human drive that can override the most important one: survival. Historically it has been seen as a vice or as a virtue, sometimes somehow in between. Today, we have too much information and curiosity needs direction and focus. 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. The botanist Robin Wall Kimmerer faced early criticism of her work, which attempts to weave together modern practice and Native American knowledge. She is a citizen of the Potawatomi Nation. Photograph: Dale KakkakWhat’s the point? what’s the goal?… The main reason is to spark your own exploration and discovery. Just like with any other topic, like creativity or business, reading about curiosity will put you in the right frame of mind, to dive deep and take action. Tweet Me I'm starting to get a little tired of the "journalist writes about some vague topic" genre of popular non-fiction. It's a tried and true formula; anecdote, brief statement of some academic's viewpoint, historical reference, review of some study, story about Benjamin Franklin/Mark Twain/Isaac Newton/Winston Churchill, and concluded mercifully by some overstated thesis presenting something obvious as though it's novel. The cycle repeats itself a couple dozen times over this thin volume. The stories are fun, the conclusions affirming, the opinions benign. Leslie doesn't make you work very hard. 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.

We'd started to use in the moment planning and begun to ditch the plastic, introducing loose parts, natural and found resources. It was going well, but Discover the incredible story of the search for life on Mars, told from the unique perspective of Curiosity, the Mars Rover sent to explore the red planet. This book should be titled, “Philosophy explained through Dante’s Comedia.” The title made me think it would be more of an explanation of what makes us curious, how we foster curiosity, and the results of curiosity in our lives. Instead it was “How Do We Reason?”, “What Are We Doing Here?”, and “What Is True?” When it comes to enhancing epistemic rather than diversive curiosity, nothing beats reading interesting books, and my children know I will always gladly answer their literary questions, at least. And ask some valid questions myself: We can argue that curiosity is a trait which leads to a richer, more fulfilling life, but nevertheless, different strokes for different folks; some people are intellectuals, some are brawn, some leaders, some artists- people have innately different approaches to fulfillment and there's a myriad of ways that individuals are inspired to function and serve in society. Not everyone is going to have curiosity at the center of their lives, though we wish they all could share in the fun.Thankfully, the seeds that had been sown couldn’t be uprooted: the twins’ home schooling made them curious about everything, and as they pursued academia, they became curious about curiosity itself. “It wasn’t clear at the beginning of our careers that we would even ever have a chance to write a book together because our areas were so wildly different,” Bassett says – but then, as postgraduates, Zurn was studying the philosophy of curiosity while Bassett was working on the neuroscience of learning. “And so that’s when we started talking. That talking led to seven years of doing research together,” Bassett says. “This book is a culmination of that.” A witty, vivid blend of pioneering natural history and spiritual primer, infectiously celebratory about life's sheer ingenuity and variety, The Book of Barely Imagined…