THE DISC VERY STAR
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Description of the discovery star
Discovery star is a website where you can learn about people who led inspiring lives, before you continue reading I want you to ask yourself a very important question. You may know the name of the people you are about to read, but do you know what they did for the universe and its future generations?
WHY IS IT IMPORTANT FOR US TO LEARN ABOUT PEOPLE WHO LED INSPIRING LIVES?
You may be asking yourself why you should learn about these people, there are many answers. But I would say that we should learn about them so we can appreciate their contributions to society and feel inspired to work harder. There are many people whose stories can uplift you, but there are too many to be listed down here, feel free to do research every once in awhile. I guarantee that you will not regret it, I hope this website and my research will help you.
Who is amelia earhart?
Amelia Mary Earhart
Amelia Earhart was an American aviator who became the
first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean, and the first person ever to fly solo from Hawaii to the U.S. mainland. She saw no limits to females and set many flying records .
COMMON QUESTIONS:
Who is Amelia Earhart married to?
Amelia Earhart is married to George Putnam, but they never had children. Although he had two sons by his previous marriage to Dorothy Binney .
What were Amelia's last words?
Amelia Earhart's last confirmed words were spoken at 8:43 a.m. on July 2, 1937. She said, “We are on the line 157-337 flying north and south.” Earlier she had spoken the fatal words, “We are on you but cannot see you.” She was in trouble, and she knew it.
Who is Stephen Hawking?
In 1974, a physicist made a game changing theory about one of the most mysterious regions of space, black holes. And that physicist is Stephen Hawking, he was also a author who's books made the most complex things in the universe understandable to everyone. But at the age of 21 while he was studying at the University of Cambridge, he was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) which affected his life, but he persevered and made amazing theories and discoveries as stated earlier.
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STEPHEN HAWKING'S MOST FAMOUS QUOTES
No.1
Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.
No.2
My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all.
No.3
Life would be tragic if it weren't funny.
Neil Armstrong
Neil Armstrong was thirty-eight years old when he first set foot on the moon, he was born near a small town called Wapakoneta in Ohio on 5 August 1930. He went to his first air show when he was just two years old and loved playing with toy aeroplanes. Although he had many other life experiences, flying machines were his first love. When Neil first set foot on the rocky ground of the moon Neil said his now famous words 'That's one small step for man . One giant leap for mankind.'He actually meant to say 'That's one small step for a man. One giant leap for mankind'. Which is understandable, no matter how calm someone in such a mind blowing moment they will tend to slip up.
For those who may ask what they can do to honor neil...
Next time you walk outside on a clear night and see the moon smiling down on you, think of Neil Armstrong and give him a wink.
-Neil Armstrong's family
Steve Jobs
Ceo of Pixar and co-founder of apple, he transformed technology as we know it today
The life of Steve Jobs
Apple, no not that fruit! The brand Apple, I bet most of you reading this on an Apple device. The genius behind both Apple and our favourite movie producer Pixar, Is Steve Jobs. He was a designer, inventor and more.
He was put up for adoption the second he was born and was eventually adopted by Paul and Clara Jobs. In his teenagehood, he met another Steve, Steve Wozniak. They would eventually start the Apple company together and would keep in contact until Steve Jobs death.
Around this time Steve Jobs started visiting an apple farm called All Farm One, which was also a commune. He loved visiting this farm, partially for the apples. He was especially famous for eating a lot of apples. Later these apples would prove important but in a very unexpected way.
About two years later in 1976 the Apple company was born and it took awhile but the Apple company took off. Although Steve was now very well known he ended up leaving in 1985 because he did not feel welcome. He then created Pixar which became as big a brand as Apple! In 1997 Steve Jobs was back at Apple and three years later he was the official CEO of Apple. But three years later he was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. A year later he had surgery and another five years later he had a transplant. At the age of 56 he passed on and his final words were:
Oh wow.
Oh wow.
Oh wow.
Jane Goodall
Goodall is best known for her study of chimpanzee social and family life. Through many years of incredible work, Dr. Jane Goodall has not only shown us the need to protect chimpanzees from extinction, she has also redefined species conservation to include the needs of local people and the environment.
More about Goodall
Jane Goodall was born in 1934 in Hampstead, London Jane had always been drawn to animals and Africa, which brought her to a farm in the Kenya highlands at the age of 23 she obtained work as a secretary and acting on her friend's advice, she telephoned Louis Leakey the Kenyan archaeologist and palaeontologist, with no other thought than to make an appointment to discuss animals.
He was looking for a chimpanzee researcher, though he kept the idea to himself. Instead, he proposed that Goodall work for him as a secretary. After obtaining approval from his co-researcher and wife, Mary Leakey, Louis sent Goodall to Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania, where he laid out his plans. In 1958, Leakey sent Goodall to London to study primate behaviour with Osman Hill and primate anatomy with John Napier. Leakey raised funds, and on 14 July 1960, Goodall went to Gombe Stream National Park, becoming the first of what would come to be called The Trimates.On 19 June 2006, the Open University of Tanzania awarded her an honorary Doctor of Science degree.
Katherine Johnson
Remember my research on Neil Armstrong? Katherine Johnson was one of the most important scientists behind Neil Armstrong's most important step in history. She was born in the state of west Virginia, America. She was capable beyond her years and started high school at just 10 years old! Which is three years earlier than usual, Katherine Johnson Earned numerous things back when few black people had the opportunity to graduate from high school. At the age of 35 she started working at Langley Research Center, now known as NASA, and after just two weeks she was promoted to making airships. And after many years of hard work help put a man on the moon.
Like what you do, and then you will do your best.
-Katherine Johnson
Alan Turing
Alan Turing was an English mathematician, logician, and more. He also created the question used to measure artificial intelligence to this day.
Can a computer talk like a human?
This genius was born in Maida Vale, London, he was raised in southern England.
He graduated with a degree in mathematics at the same university Stephen Hawkings studied at. He was awarded the British Numismatic Society Sanford Saltus Gold Medal in 1986.
Turing is widely considered to be the father of computer science,
and many people remember him for guiding the future for artificial intelligence ( AI ).
The Turing Test
As mentioned, the Turing test is a game Alan turning proposed in the 1950s paper: Computing Machinery And Intelligence. Turing suggested a unique and interesting game.
This is how it goes: A human judge has a conversation with unseen players and must take down the player's responses. For a machine to pass the test, it must be able to mimic a human and not make any major change to the results.
Some AI's who passed include Eliza, Parry, and Eugene Goostman (Yes, they are the AI's names, and not all who passed are listed down).
Eliza managed to convince people she was human by pretending to be a psychologist, to motivate the person to talk more then reflecting their questions back at them, even though she had a few problems and awkward moments. While Parry mimicked a paranoid mentally ill person. Eugene Goostman took a more laid back approach, in this way his horrible grammar and social awkwardness was just seen as cultural barriers.
From the results of the Turing test we can conclude that AI's often struggle with questions with no correct answer(s) or pauses like um.... Who would think today's AI's 31 years after the paper was written, could do so many things but yet could not have basic conversations with a human?
Marie Curie
Marie Curie was born on 7 November 1867, she grew up In a Russian-occupied Poland during the Warsaw Pact.
Marie was a gifted student, but as a woman, she was forbidden to pursue post-secondary education. So in an act of defiance, she joined a secret institution called Floating University, dedicated to providing high education.
There she earned both a Physics and Mathematics degree. Later on, she met the physicist Pierre Curie whom she got into a relationship with.
Later in her life, she discovered the element of Radiation which means ray in Latin, this is what she is mainly known for. She won two Nobel prizes, making her the first and only person to win two Nobel Prizes.
Food for thought
When you are inspired by someone there is always a reason, what is yours?
I admire her because of her pioneering research on Radioactivity, did you know people suspect she died from too much exposure to Radioactivity?
Credits to: Teded
Both on Youtube and on website.
Rosa Parks
Rosa Parks fought for Civil Rights and frequently confronted racial violence. But her inspiring and brave acts came at a high risk. Rosa was born on February 4, 1913, and was raised in Alabama.
But instead of a childhood with no fear of injustice she and her family were always at risk of racial violence, and at the age of 19 she married Raymond Parks who shared an increasing rage at racial and civil rights.
In 1955 at the age of 42 she made a decision that changed civil rights for the rest of history, she refused to move to the back of a segregated bus. This simple act had her arrested and in her cell she planned a 24-hour bus boycott, and it lasted over a year until the supreme court took action and removed racial segregation on public transport.
Her uncomplicated act changed the world for the better, but it came at the price of many threats and on October 24, 2005 she passed on.
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Albert Einstein
It was 1905, a 25-year-old Albert Einstein failed most of his academics. Any normal person at that time would scorn at the idea of him contributing much to society, furthermore science. Still, within the following year, Einstein would write four astounding papers on different topics, and these papers would subsequently change how we understand the extraordinary world we live in.
The myth of him failing math was nowhere near the truth, he aced math by the age of 15 and did well in both his secondary school and polytechnic. But skipping classes to spend more time in the lab did not turn out well, he had to work as a clerk at the Swiss patent office.
Even though he worked almost every day, he still had time for physics, he even published a few simple papers. In March that year, he submitted a paper with a surprising theory on how light is a particle and published three more papers that changed our understanding of matter, time, and space.
Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz
Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz was born on 12 November 1648, as a child Juana's father left her mother to raise their three children alone. Juana's mother set a good example for her and many people think this is why she had such confidence her whole life.
When Juana learnt that higher education also known as university nowadays was only open to men, she begged her mother to let her attend in disguise as a man and when her request was denied she resorted to hiding in the hacienda chapel to read her grandfather's books from the adjoining library, something prohibited to women at that time. And in just a few years she learned how to read and write Latin.
At the age of sixteen, she was taken in by the royal court of Mexico as a lady-in-waiting. Her plays and poems both amazed and angered the court. However many people had still tried to have a relationship with her, to find a way to get education as a woman and avoid love at the same time at just the age of twenty she joined the church as a nun. There, she wrote dramas, comedies, music, poetry, religious music and much more. She her works were so overwhelming that many scholars visited her.
But in 1690 a bishop instructed Juana to devote herself to prayer rather than debate, Juana argued but in the end, she had to sell her books and give up writing. Of course, Juana was furious and was forced to renew her vows as she dolefully did. with nothing better to do she started doing charity work and died in 1695.
Juana Inés de la Cruz was a poet and scholar, she championed the intellectual rights of women, advocated for women to have access to education, and defended her own right to disagreement.
Rachel Carson
In 1962 published the book "Silent Spring". This book was based on the misuse of chemicals and how they affect humans and nature.
This book attracted accordance, disagreement and even personal attacks on Rachel. The inspiration for this simple book that caused an uproar happened in 1958.
She received a letter about people witnessing songbirds falling from trees out of the blue, the author of the message accused this phenomenon on a pesticide called DDT.
Rachel spent a long time investigating, she already knew that many scientists and conservationists were worried about the unrestrained use of pesticide as it could affect many of the already endangered animals.
And finally after many calls and hours of research "Silent Spring" was published.
Rachel was no stranger to writing books, she had written three books on the ocean by 1955. And while working at The Bureau of Fisheries she was the second woman to be hired full time.
Rachel Carson supported the global environmental movement with all her books. At the same time she informed the world on nature and inspired many people to write.
Rachel Carson Bonus Section
Hello, from now on I will add a bonus section which includes an explanation of more complex words and more!
Mini dictionary:
accordance ---- conformity or agreement.
out of the blue ---- suddenly.
phenomenon ---- something observed to happen.
pesticide ---- a substance used for killing insects.
DDT ---- Dichloro Diphenyl Trichloroethane, a type of pesticide.
conservationist ---- a person who acts for the protection of the environment.
How did Rachel's books look like?
Look below here see!
The Father of "History", Herodotus
Although History class is nowhere near entertaining, have you ever wondered who has the title of “The Father of History”? Well that person is Herodotus, he was an Ancient Greek writer from the 5th century BCE. Not all the events in the book Herodotus wrote are completely true and some are even said to be completely false. But his work revolutionized the way the past was recorded which is known commonly as History, hence his famous title.
Before his revolutionary work, the past was just a list of events, that would be the same as saying: I ate breakfast and then read a book and then...
And all of these events had little to no proper reason or cause and was just considered as the will of the gods acient people believed in. But Herodotus wanted a deeper understanding of why these events occurred. He grew up in a series of wars between the powerful Persians and the weaker Greeks, he found out the most he could about this topic. He collected stories from all around the Mediterranean.
His book was an inquiry and contained many different types of stories, some serious and others mythical. He used opsis and autopsy in his writings and was the first to do so.
Herodotus invented the field of study for history.He is recognized to this day as a reliable source of information on the ancient world by the majority of historians.
Bonus section Herodotus
When I say Herodotus's book was an inquiry, I mean it. The contents ranged from the internal debates of the Persian court to tales of flying snakes, and even advice on how to catch a crocodile. Yes. A crocodile.
If you knew Herodotus before reading this there is a high chance you heard of the famous sentence his book starts with: Herodotus of Halicarnassus here displays his inquiries.
Mini dictionary:
revolutionary/revolution --- causing a complete or dramatic change to a certain field.
Mediterranean ---- Albania, Algeria, Bosnia and more
historians --- Historians study and preserve archival materials
Autopsy --- seeing for one's self
Opsis --- eye witness accounts
Sources:
Why is Herodotus called “The Father of History”? - Mark Robinson - YouTube
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