Beneficial Breakthroughs
The Chinese invented money, gunpowder and not being able to line up properly. They also invented this, which revolutionized human communication.
paper
Developing a universal vaccine would be in this area of science.
medicine
These "questions" aren't real questions because the speaker doesn't expect an answer. They're simply a way to make a statement more forceful and attract listeners' attention. E.g.: "What would you say if I told you anyone can answer this?"
These two students are so experienced presenting together that their presentation was as entertaining as any two-person comedy act.
Livy and Amber
He was a Renaissance thinker who formulated a model of the universe that placed the Sun rather than Earth at its center. The publication of his book showing this model was a major event in the history of science, and made an important pioneering contribution to the Scientific Revolution.
Nicolaus Copernicus
This a high-performance, sustainable, and rapidly renewable (growing up to 89 cm per day) construction material with a tensile strength exceeding that of wood and a strength-to-weight ratio superior to steel.
bamboo
Deep machine learning is is an example of a breakthrough in this area of science.
Artificial Intelligence
This is one of the most important critical thinking skills in academic study. It is the ability to analyze a text, pick out the main ideas and important details, and then present them in a short form.
Summarizing
There is nothing artificial about either of these students, even though they both made a case for certain sweeteners to be considered a significant breakthrough.
Chelsea Lee and Tonya
The largest telescope in space was named after this man, the second administrator of NASA from February 14, 1961, to October 7, 1968.
James Webb
This is one of the most significant scientific breakthroughs of recent times, due to the fact it can make very tall buildings and buildings of different shapes and sizes.
reinforced concrete
The possibility of finding life on other planets would be under this area of science.
Astrobiology
There was a kind of ...
I remember a thing that...
It looked like....
Her presentation was a very comprehensive analysis of auto driving cars and included a variety of reasons why it was a significant breakthrough.
Chelsea Weng
This Canadian astrophotographer and astronomy author is pictured in Unit 4 using a telescope in his backyard.
Alan Dyer
This is the name of the device that can detect earthquakes so we can get alerts on our phones in time, although it is usually only a few seconds.
seismograph
This invention first appeared at the World's Fair in New York in April 1964.
Video phone/ the first picturephone call
Preparing and delivering a presentation is a skill very useful in school and in life. When preparing a presentation for the debating society competition this month what case was to be made?
A case for one of the most significant scientific or technological breakthroughs of the last 250 years.
Three students made a case for the development of vaccines to be considered the most significant breakthrough of the last 250 years, but only one covered the smallpox and polio vaccines.
Sonja
This famous first lady of the USA congratulated the AT&T Bell Labs about their new picture phone.
Lady Bird Johnson
Sir Isaac Newton's major discoveries fundamentally changed science,most notably explaining how this force controls celestial and terrestrial motion.
gravity
One danger is that artificial intelligence could produce these. They would appear to be so real that we would no longer be able to trust our eyes or ears.
Fake videos showing people doing things they didn't do.
Sometimes you have to have really good grammar skills. Complete this sentence using the correct form of unreal conditional in the present tense:
If I ________ a scientist, medicine __________ the area of most interest to me.
If I were a scientist, medicine would be the area of most interest to me.
Staying with their food theme, these two students' counterargument covered refrigeration.
Effie and Angel
This Arab physician, surgeon and chemist from al-Andalus, considered one of the greatest surgeons of the Middle Ages, wrote the Kitab al-Tasrif, a thirty-volume encyclopedia of medical practices.
Abu al-Qasim Al-Zahrawi