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  2. 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 ...

  3. List of Indian inventions and discoveries - Wikipedia

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    [210] [211] Pingala found the number of metres that had long notes and short notes; this is equivalent to finding the binomial coefficients. Jain texts define five different types of infinity – the infinite in one direction, the infinite in two directions, the infinite in area, the infinite everywhere, and the infinite perpetually.

  4. 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.

  5. 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.

  6. Hindi Wikipedia - Wikipedia

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    Many Hindi speakers with Internet use English Wikipedia instead. Given the great geographic spread of the Hindi language, the contributors to the Hindi project live in various areas around the country. There are also prolific users whose native language is not Hindi, as Hindi is a government language in India alongside English.

  7. 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.

  8. 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 ...

  9. Hindu cosmology - Wikipedia

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    Hindu cosmology is the description of the universe and its states of matter, cycles within time, physical structure, and effects on living entities according to Hindu texts.