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Curiosity: The Story of a Mars Rover

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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. I found _Curious_ to be interesting, but disappointing. I was disappointed because a majority of the book was dedicated to unrelated diversions. If you're an avid reader like me of non-fiction self-help, psychology, business, and biography literature you will be familiar with a majority of the anecdotal tangents contained herein. The entrepreneurial fairy tales of Steve Jobs and Walt Disney; the inquisitiveness and creativity of Ben Franklin; the success predicting ability of "grit" and the marshmallow test (boy do I get tired of reading about this test -- I probably would failed it as a child, yet I'm a successful adult); and so forth. I was hoping for a more detailed discussion of curiosity, particularly how to _cultivate_ curiosity, but it wasn't there. Curiosity is the story of the famous Mars Rover sent to the red planet to discover just what it is really like. The book explains that whilst men have walked on the moon and lived in space, at the moment Mars is too far to send humans, so robots are having to do the discovering instead. This story tells the story of the Mars Rover, Curiosity. In her own voice, Curiosity tells readers about her mission: to explore the red planet and work to discover if there is or ever was life on Mars. The story begins by sharing the creation of Curiosity to answering questions such as: How did she get her name? What special devices does she have on board to help her with her mission? How did the NASA team launch Curiosity over 350,000,000 miles to explore our neighboring planet? Curiosity is an informative and inspiring story of man’s continuous quest to explore our universe and continue to learn.

Build the database. Eureka moments: they arise from the gathering and working over - the slow, deliberate, patient accumulation of knowledge.

In a world where inequalities in access to information are being leveled, a new divide is emerging - between the curious and the incurious. “The internet is making smart people smarter and dumb people dumber.” I was intrigued by the concept of an evolutionary origin driving human curiosity. Compared to other animals, it appears that humans possess a unique biological urge to be curious, to venture into the unknown. Some might say then that curiosity is a key trait of humanity: to be curious is to be human. This book introduced me to the concept of NFC (Need for Cognition), which is one I recognize and cherish in myself. Just a few weeks ago, as I was skimming through my day with my different interests (diversive-me), I suddenly felt the unsatisfied feeling of not biting deep enough. I was popcorning my day away. And then, I delved into a lecture. Mmmm. This book is about Curiosity, but it's largely about science in general -- about questions and answers and why we send all these robots into space to begin with. I like how the grander desire for exploration is expressed so clearly throughout the story of the robot, making the scope much larger than just one robot or planet. Follow these questions. Capture them for later exploration. See to what subjects they take you, or what aspects of yourself they bring to light. There you may uncover the passion or unique value proposition to light up your self, your business, and brand.

An eclectic history of human curiosity, a great feast of ideas, and a memoir of a reading life from an internationally celebrated reader and thinkerThankfully, 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.”

Leaders say they value employees who question or explore things, but research shows that they largely suppress curiosity, out of fear that it will increase risk and undermine efficiency. Why This MattersPor fim, se tiverem encontrado, ou procurado, este livro de Manguel para saber mais sobre a curiosidade humana, aconselho antes a leitura de "Curious: The Desire to Know and Why Your Future Depends On It" (2014) de Ian Leslie. Enjoyable read, and I learned a few things which is always nice. Still, I found the argument that modernity's abundant and easy-to-access information is a threat to curiosity to be pretty weak (I often imagined an old man shaking his fist at "things these days", and the phrase "first world problems" crossed my mind more than once). I think it's clear that people intrinsically interested in a topic will take off their gloves and delve into it no matter whether the answers they're looking for are easy to find or not. Further, what's wrong with masses of generally incurious people having easy answers at their fingertips? If the effort to find an answer doesn't exceed their mild curiosity, they may be just as happy to go on in complete ignorance on the topic, which offers no improvement on the human condition in general. I understand the author's concern is also about all of the garbage that threatens to distract us from potential "eureka!" moments, but this is how it's always been, HuffPo/TMZ or not. One needs to master more self-control if one truly wishes to achieve any goal, intellectual or otherwise. The author also admits that serendipity often plays a part in sparking curiosity- maybe the accidental stumble down wikipedia rabbit hole is one futuristic, inclusive version this. I felt like the author was aware that he was making a half-hearted argument on this point.

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