By the time the staff at New Zealand’s National Aquarium noticed that Inky the octopus was missing, telltale suction cup prints were the main clue to how he had broken free.
By the time the staff at New Zealand’s National Aquarium noticed that Inky the octopus was missing, telltale suction cup prints were the main clue to how he had broken free.
By the time the staff at New Zealand’s National Aquarium noticed that Inky the octopus was missing, telltale suction cup prints were the main clue to how he had broken free.
On May 13, 1906, she was appointed to the professorship that had been left vacant on her husband's death, becoming the first woman to teach at the Sorbonne.
The sudden death of her husband in 1906 was a bitter blow to Marie Curie, but was also a turning point in her career: henceforth she devoted all her energy to completing alone the scientific work that they had undertaken.
Pierre Curie joined Marie in the work that she had undertaken to resolve this problem, and that led to the discovery of the new elements, polonium and radium.
Work has become the scapegoat for all our woes. The case against work is put in persuasive terms on a daily basis. There’s just one problem: it's nonsense. In fact, as far as work is concerned, we've never had it so good.
Neither 'N' nor his family were prepared to grant an interview on the subject. This was frustrating for linguists trying to study hyperpolyglottism, particularly because N had mentioned another hyperpolyglot in his family.
CJ had learned to read late, had an average IQ, and had always been a mediocre student. However, on the Modern Language Aptitude Test, he scored extremely high.
Krashen cites the case of Lomb Kato, a Hungarian interpreter who could speak 16 languages. Lomb felt she had no special talent for languages: she had taken classes in Chinese and Polish, but the others she taught herself.
The writer, 'N', described how his grandfather, who was Sicilian and had never gone to school, could learn languages with such remarkable ease that by the end of his life he could speak 70, and read and write 56.