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    Curiosity (from Latin cūriōsitās, from cūriōsus "careful, diligent, curious", akin to cura "care") is a quality related to inquisitive thinking such as...
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    Curiosity is a car-sized Mars rover exploring Gale crater and Mount Sharp on Mars as part of NASA's Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) mission. Curiosity was...
    130 KB (10,499 words) - 18:01, 26 June 2024
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    been known to glassmakers for much longer. They were studied as scientific curiosities by the Royal Society and the unravelling of the principles of their...
    20 KB (2,334 words) - 16:36, 3 July 2024
  • societies based on rational memes that encourage enlightenment values, scientific curiosity, and progress. Criticisms of memetics include claims that memes do...
    64 KB (7,816 words) - 23:59, 11 July 2024
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    scientific purposes." Evans goes on to explain that "no clear distinction existed between the two categories: all collecting was marked by curiosity,...
    43 KB (5,180 words) - 17:58, 26 June 2024
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    and trade relations to new territories, but with the Enlightenment scientific curiosity became a new motive for exploration to add to the commercial and...
    84 KB (10,466 words) - 19:42, 28 June 2024
  • is more than capable of notable research. However, her ambitious scientific curiosity, deference to precedent, and, ultimately, personal insecurity frequently...
    12 KB (1,310 words) - 06:01, 11 July 2024
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    ability to inhibit growth of unrelated strains had been a topic for scientific curiosity, which then resulted in the discovery a macroscopically visible line...
    12 KB (1,254 words) - 00:15, 19 May 2024
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    occasionally purchased by English noblemen, who viewed them as a scientific curiosity. Wolfdogs were popular exhibits in British menageries and zoos. Six...
    39 KB (4,268 words) - 01:51, 11 July 2024
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    of the device, remarking "My invention can be exploited... as a scientific curiosity, but apart from that it has no commercial value whatsoever". After...
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    anymore; he considered the possibility of committing suicide. His scientific curiosity and desire to know more about the world prevented him from doing...
    162 KB (20,079 words) - 18:56, 5 July 2024
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    raise queens and other bees to sell to other farmers, and to satisfy scientific curiosity. Beekeepers also use honeybees to provide pollination services to...
    12 KB (1,360 words) - 14:33, 20 May 2024
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    Nikola Tesla and George Westinghouse, electricity turned from a scientific curiosity into an essential tool for modern life. In 1887, Heinrich Hertz: 843–44 ...
    84 KB (9,336 words) - 00:23, 9 July 2024
  • This status is enforced by a religious belief system discouraging scientific curiosity and forbidding any higher technological innovation on penalty of...
    17 KB (1,835 words) - 08:11, 14 June 2024
  • addictive substances, including laudanum and coca leaves, arising from scientific curiosity, control of his reactions to physical problems, and substance dependence...
    38 KB (4,423 words) - 00:37, 7 June 2024
  • Science (redirect from Scientific)
    from scientists who are motivated by curiosity about the world and a desire to solve problems. Contemporary scientific research is highly collaborative and...
    167 KB (15,823 words) - 14:17, 7 July 2024
  • Intellectual curiosity (also called epistemic curiosity) is curiosity that leads to an acquisition of general knowledge. It can include curiosity about such...
    7 KB (961 words) - 00:09, 12 July 2024
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    particles. Silica gel was in existence as early as the 1640s as a scientific curiosity. It was used in World War I for the adsorption of vapors and gases...
    22 KB (2,398 words) - 19:52, 25 June 2024
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    An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump (category Historical scientific instruments)
    group exhibits a variety of reactions, but for most of the audience scientific curiosity overcomes concern for the bird. The central figure looks out of the...
    37 KB (4,940 words) - 19:26, 30 June 2024
  • placed in bleach. Lionel, pleased by what he believed to be his son's scientific curiosity, demonstrated how to safely bleach and preserve animal bones. Dahmer...
    180 KB (19,887 words) - 20:18, 12 July 2024
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