{"id":2147,"date":"2020-11-06T18:50:07","date_gmt":"2020-11-06T18:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kildarelibrariesblog.com\/?p=2147"},"modified":"2020-11-06T18:50:07","modified_gmt":"2020-11-06T18:50:07","slug":"rua-recommends-for-november","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/blog\/rua-recommends-for-november\/","title":{"rendered":"Rua Recommends for November"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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There are plenty of days of note in November from Chaos Never Dies Day to World Philosophy Day, but far more interesting to Rua is the history related days and fun days like Origami Day. Therefore he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s picked out a few titles from BorrowBox for children aged 8 and older that celebrate and remember important dates such as Marie Curie\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s birthday and Remembrance Day. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Did you know the 7th of November is Marie Curie\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Birthday <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Marie Curie was a famous scientist from Poland who is best known for her discoveries on radioactivity<\/a> . Born in 1867 to two parents who valued her education, she had to move to France to get a University degree as in Poland women could not attend University. Within 3 years of entering college in Paris, she had degrees in Maths and Science and later went on to work with her husband \u00c2\u00a0Pierre Curie<\/a> with whom she later received her first Nobel Prize (1903) for discovering the chemical element radium. She also received a nobel prize in Chemistry in\u00c2\u00a01911. If you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d like to find out more information in the form of a summary about Marie, library members have access to Britannica<\/a> . For those looking for a more detailed history of Marie Curie, this book <\/a>is perfect as it goes into detail about the childhood of Marie (or Maria as she was born) in Russian oppressed Poland and her scientific dedication as an adult to the point where she \u00e2\u20ac\u0153became so involved with her research that she forgot to eat or sleep, and \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 refused to patent her discoveries (which would have made her very wealthy)\u00e2\u20ac\u009d chiefly because she cared more about helping people. The book also includes great activities you can do with your grown up to learn more about science. Rua in particular enjoyed looking at all the old photos of Marie Curie that are in the book too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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For something a bit more like a conversation with the noted scientist, and something you can listen to, Rua recommends this audiobook<\/a>. We all wish we could go back in time and chat to historic figures and this audio makes it feel like you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re doing just that. While Rua enjoyed reading about Marie in the previous book, he enjoyed this one more because it helped him understand atomic physics or how radioactive atoms are different from regular atoms. Listening to the story of Marie\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s life from Marie\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s point of view gives it a personal feel and while other biographies mention how difficult it was for a woman to both have a family and become a famous scientist, this goes into more detail and shows you how extraordinary Curie was both in terms of scientific discovery (and her discoveries are often used now to treat cancer) but also social advancement (as she was one of the only women in the science field).\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Origami Day – 11th November<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you were following Rua\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s at home craft series during the first lockdown you may already know that Rua loves paper craft and you can watch back his how to video here: <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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