Marie Curie

Through the use of radioactive materials discovered decades earlier by Marie Curie, radioactive material could be converted into electrical energy. The newly discovered nuclear energy was highly efficient and produced minimal amounts of waste. Thusly, the US created the Atomic Energy Commision in 1946 in order to develop and improve…

Goldsmith’s “Revenge of the Text” chapter strips down our normal, narrow understanding of language and widens both the definition and our minds, to include the raw material behind digital imagery (coding, binary etc…) It deliberates the ways in which data is preserved, carried and handled through the affluence of the digital world, and turned into information, often by way of what Flusser terms ‘black boxes’ (Flusser, “The Future of Writing, 67). He feels that having such powerful technology at…

Chapter Six: Completing the Table…with a Bang 1. What is the difference between a “dirty” bomb and a conventional nuclear bomb? (1 mark) The difference between a “dirty” bomb and a conventional nuclear bomb is that a nuclear bomb is designed to destroy organisms using heat and impact, while a dirty bomb is designed to kill with gamma radiation. Radiation from dirty bombs, besides burning through skin, also alters the DNA in bone marrows, which significantly weakens the body’s immune system, and…

Islam and will enforce it in any way. Furthermore when Marjane grows up she begins to think of her future in Iran. University is soon thereafter closed and Marjane demands " No more university. and I wanted to study chemistry. I wanted to be like Marie Curie. o wanted to be an educated, liberated woman, of the pursuit of knowledge meant betting cancer so be it " ( Satrapi 73.) Marjane has an determination to be a free and liberated woman like her mother and grandmother. The fact that she is…

Page 15 of 18 Forever Unintelligible Gardner allows that humans have wonderful brains, that we can invent thinking machines, microscopes and any number of intelligence-enhancers, but he says there are still limits, hard limits. Just as "there is no way to teach calculus to a chimp, or even make it understand the square root of 2," he writes, "surely there are truths as far beyond our grasp as our grasp is beyond that of a cow." He concedes that once upon a time humans were chimp-like and over…

For over 50 years, Barbie has not only existed as a simple child’s plaything, but as a cultural phenomenon; an iconic piece of painted plastic impressed with untold amounts of potential. If you speak to any girl today in her twenties, she will be sure to regale you fondly with tales of the doll from childhood memories. It is easy to interpret how Barbie is marketed, at a foundational level, to promote a societally constructed definition of all things ‘ideally’ feminine, however, what is…

Be that as it may, it would only make sense that these actions done by Satrapi did show her individuality. “I put my 1983 Nikes on...and my denim jacket with the michael jackson button, and of course, my headscarf” (Satrapi 131) was the outfit of choice Marji left her house in. Knowing the strict committees were prowling the streets and the Islamic army was up and down the sidewalks, she was determined to go and buy cassette tapes of michael jackson and Kim Wilde, both very western as well as…

Science is a difficult concept simply that to define it, is to define all we know about the world in which we live. I am of the opinion, that since the dawn of the scientific age there has been a clear and defining breakdown in terms of gender in science. As a young woman studying Marine Biology, I someday wish to be viewed as a member of the scientific community. In spite of this, when I think of a ‘scientist’, a man in a lab coat is all that comes to mind. This is the historical image of…

On December 12, 2015, the world came together in Paris and for the first time addressed global warming. It was determined that the world’s goal by 2050 would be to keep global temperature increases under 2 degrees Celsius. With such high expectations, the US and other countries around the world need to invest in new power producing technologies in order to phase out the fossil fuel industry. While renewable energy sources such as solar and wind are the best long term solutions, their unreliable,…

technological invention was the mobile x-ray machine. As millions of soldiers were suffering life-threatening injuries, diagnosing the medical conditions was challenging without having access to x-ray equipment that would be found at hospitals. Marie Curie created a mobile x-ray station for the French military that was transported in small trucks and cars, that were able to be sent to the surgical stations at the front lines. With the success of these machines, further development by other…