November 30, 2024
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Welcome to the bright and exciting world of biology. Dive in and explore the tree of life, ecosystems, the human body, the world of plants and why your planet needs you. With Usborne Quicklinks to specially selected websites about biology, from tiny microbes to entire rainforests.
Welcome to the bright and exciting world of biology. Dive in and explore the tree of life, ecosystems, the human body, the world of plants and why your planet needs you. With Usborne Quicklinks to specially selected websites about biology, from tiny microbes to entire rainforests.
Penrose, a cat with a knack for math, takes children on an adventurous tour of mathematical concepts from fractals to infinity.
Meet Katherine Johnson, a brilliant mathematician who worked at NASA in the early 1950s until retiring in 1986. Katherine’s unparalleled calculations (done by hand) helped plan the trajectories for NASA’s Mercury and Apollo missions (including the Apollo 11 moon landing). She is said to be one of the greatest American minds of all time.
When her parents took away her candles to keep their young daughter from studying math…nothing stopped Sophie. When a professor discovered that the homework sent to him under a male pen name came from a woman…nothing stopped Sophie. And when she tackled a math problem that male scholars said would be impossible to solve…still, nothing stopped Sophie.
“Enclosed, dear reader, you will find a collection of the world’s greatest optical illusions, designed to trick the eye and fool the mind. It’s a veritable fun house of visual curiosities and mind-boggling, logic-bending puzzles; things transform before your eyes, impossible objects become a reality, up is often down, and nothing’s quite as it seems!”
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