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  2. Scientific literacy - Wikipedia

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    Ask, find, or determine answers to questions derived from curiosity about everyday experiences. Describe, explain, and predict natural phenomena . Read articles with understanding of science in the popular press and engage in social conversation about the validity of the conclusions.

  3. Curiosity - Wikipedia

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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 exploration, investigation, and learning, evident in humans and other animals.

  4. Science education - Wikipedia

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    Science education is the teaching and learning of science to school children, college students, or adults within the general public. The field of science education includes work in science content, science process (the scientific method), some social science, and some teaching pedagogy.

  5. Yajnavalkya - Wikipedia

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    Staal notes that though the name Yajnavalkya is derived from yajna, which connotes ritual, Yajnavalkya is referred to as "a thinker, not a ritualist." [1] According to tradition, Yajnavalkya was a pupil of Vaisampayana and the compiler of the Shukla Yajurveda Samhita. [10] Yajnavalkya was the pupil of Uddālaka Āruṇi, whom he defeated in ...

  6. Curiosity quotient - Wikipedia

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    Curiosity quotient is a term put forth by author and journalist Thomas L. Friedman as part of an illustrative formula to explain how individuals can be powerfully motivated to learn about a personally interesting subject, whether or not they possess a particularly high intelligence quotient (IQ). The non-mathematical and fictitious formula is ...

  7. Hindi Wikipedia - Wikipedia

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    The Hindi Wikipedia (Hindi: हिन्दी विकिपीडिया) is Modern Standard Hindi edition of Wikipedia. It was launched in July 2003. It was launched in July 2003. As of January 2025, it has 164,188 articles , and ranks 10th in terms of depth among Wikipedias.

  8. Book of Curiosities - Wikipedia

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    Map of Sicily from a 13th-century copy of the Fatimid cosmography, The Book of Curiosities, housed in the Bodleian Library at Oxford University The Book of Curiosities (Arabic: Kitāb Gharā’ib al-funūn wa-mulaḥ al-ʿuyūn, literally translated as Book of Curiosities of the Sciences and Marvels for the Eyes) is an anonymous 11th-century Arabic cosmography from Fatimid Egypt containing a ...

  9. Meena - Wikipedia

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    Minas. The Meenas claim a mythological descent from the Matsya avatar, or fish incarnation, of Vishnu. [13] They also claim to be descendants of the people of the Matsya Kingdom, which flourished in the 6th century B.C. [14] The historian Pramod Kumar notes that it is likely that the tribes living in the ancient Matsya kingdom were called Meena but it cannot be said with certainty that there ...