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The life of astronaut John "Danny" Olivas.

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Before Isaac Newton became the father of physics, an accomplished mathematician, or a leader of the scientific revolution, he was a boy living in an apothecary's house, observing and experimenting, recording his observations of the world in a tiny notebook. As a young genius living in a time before science as we know it existed, Isaac studied the few books he could get his hands on, built handmade machines, and experimented with alchemy.

Throughout history, black women have blazed trails across the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. Black Women in Science brings something special to black history books for kids, celebrating incredible black women in STEM who have used their brains, bravery, and ambition to beat the odds. Black Women in Science stands out amongst other black history books for kids - featuring 15 powerful stories of fearless female scientists that advanced their STEM fields and fought to build a legacy.

Daniel erfährt häufig in Träumen und Visionen von Gottes Plänen. Gott zeigt ihm sogar Bilder von den letzten Tagen der Erde. Auch sein Einfluss auf König Nebukadnezar wird immer stärker. Zum wiederholten Male kann Daniel die bedrückenden Träume des Königs deuten. Doch seine wichtige Stellung am Hof ruft Neider auf den Plan. Um ihn aus dem Weg zu schaffen, soll Daniel den Löwen zum Fraß vorgeworfen werden.

Seine Entdeckungen zu Licht und Farben, zur Schwerkraft und zur höheren Mathematik revolutionierten das menschliche Denken und die Vorstellung von unserer Welt. Newton erfand nicht nur eine neue Art von Teleskop, sondern entwickelte auch die Infinitesimalrechnung und formulierte das Newtonsche Gravitationsgesetz. Fiel da vorher wirklich ein Apfel auf seinen Kopf? Als Wissenschaftshistoriker befasst sich Prof. Dr. Jürgen Renn vom Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte mit der Frage, wie sich menschliches Wissen entwickelt und entwickelt hat.

Although Orville and Wilbur Wright are celebrated today as heroes for their revolutionary contributions to science and engineering - they are acknowledged as the first men to successfully achieve powered, piloted flight - their success was hard-earned. In fact, it took the self-taught engineers years of work and dozens of crashes before they managed a single 12-second flight! In this first installment of the brand new Epic Fails series, Ben Thompson and Erik Slader take listeners through the Wright brothers' many mishaps and misadventures as they paved the way for modern aviation.

Before Carl Linnaeus began classifying organisms, before John James Audubon drew birds from the wild, before Charles Darwin proposed his theory of evolution, there lived a 13-year-old girl named Maria Merian who loved to draw bugs. With no formal training or university education, Maria Merian took on the role of artist, adventurer, and scientist in 17th-century Europe - a time when women were rarely allowed responsibilities outside the home, and unusual interests led to accusations of witchcraft.

Ernest Everett Just was not like other scientists of his time. He saw the whole, where others saw only parts. He noticed details others failed to see. He persisted in his research despite the discrimination and limitations imposed on him as an African American. His keen observations of sea creatures revealed new insights about egg cells and the origins of life.

Have you ever used your imagination to solve a problem? When Albert Einstein was young, he was fascinated by the way magnetism made a compass work. As an adult, he used thought experiments to solve some of the universe's greatest mysteries. Einstein loved to think about math and science. He worked for a while at a patent office, but his mind wasn't focused on inventions. Instead, he thought about the universe. In 1905, Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity solved questions that scientists had grappled with for hundreds of years.

Before John Glenn orbited the Earth or astronauts walked on the moon, a group of dedicated female mathematicians known as “human computers” used their knowledge, pencils, adding machines, and writing paper to calculate the orbital mechanics needed to launch spacecraft. Katherine Johnson was one of these mathematicians who used trajectories and complex equations to chart the space program. Even as Virginia’s Jim Crow laws were in place in the early 1950s, Katherine worked analyzing data at the NACA (later NASA) Langley laboratory.