Resilience
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Kickass Kid of the Day: A Maryland-based scientist has developed an incredibly accurate mechanism for detecting pancreatic cancer, which is faster than current methods, as well as 100 times more sensitive and 28 times cheaper. Oh, and the scientist is 15 years old.
For his discovery, high school freshman Jack Andraka just won the Gordon E. Moore Award at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair, which comes with a $75,000 prize.
Andraka’s method uses single-walled carbon nanotubes — which he calls “the superheroes of material science” — to detect a pancreatic cancer marker in urine and blood samples. In a blind test, it had a 100% success rate.
“I did not expect for it to be this good,” he said, “I was blown away by how sensitive it was.”
[huffpo.]
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JK Rowling Given Freedom Of London
And 10 Other Things You Didn’t Know About The Harry Potter Author
1. As a child JK Rowling’s favourite book was The Little White Horse by Elizabeth Goudge.
2. JK Rowling insisted on using British actors for the Harry Potter films.
3. JK Rowling and her husband have no plans to stop working despite her multi million pound fortune, as she thinks working sets a good example to her children.
4. JK Rowling goes on Harry Potter fan sites - she once visited the chatroom of popular site Mugglenet, and got told to keep quiet by regulars as she didn’t know enough about Harry Potter.
5. JK Rowling typed Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone on a typewriter.
6. After graduating, and before starting the Harry Potter books, JK Rowling worked as a researcher at Amnesty International.
7. Before she finished the books, she let Alan Rickman in on the whole story, so that he could play the character of Severus Snape better in the films.
8. Harry Potter and JK Rowling have the same birthday, 31st July.
9. Her preferred Hogwarts house would be Gryffindor (the same house as Harry, Ron and Hermoine).
10. Her first fan letter was from a reader called Francesca Gray. She thought JK Rowling was a man and started her letter, ‘Dear Sir…’
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I can’t even text without writing long, nice sentences that use proper grammar and spelling.
And then my friends reply back like, “k c u then!!”
(Source: thefifthhorseman)
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The Average Book Has 64,500 Words
Here’s a sampling of classics and where their word counts land them on the spectrum. Click on the title to view all the statistical viscera.
29,966 words (75% of books have more words)
30,191 words (75% of books have more words)
46,573 words (64% of books have more words)
47,192 words (64% of books have more words)
We Have Always Lived in the Castle
53,510 words (58% of books have more words)
62,481 words (51% of books have more words)
64,531 words (50% of books have more words)
70,570 words (45% of books have more words)
78,535 words (41% of books have more words)
112,473 words (21% of books have more words)
117,963 words (18% of books have more words)
159, 344 words (9% of books have more words)
209,117 words (4% of books have more words)
226,741 words (3% of books have more words)
262,869 words (2% of books have more words)
310,593 words (2% of books have more words)
544,406 words (0% of books have more words)
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