Leonardo da Vinci

The immense scope of Leonardo da Vinci's accomplishments was the impetus for the term "Renaissance Man," becoming part of everyday language. His achievements and interests spanned the arts and sciences to an extent unequalled in known history.

Leonardo was born on April 15, 1452, near the town of Vinci, close to Florence, Italy. He became an apprentice to Andrea Verrocchio, a Renaissance master, when he was only 17 years old and began his artistic career.

His innovations in the field of painting influenced Italian art for more than a century after his death. Among his most well known works are the Adoration of the Magi, Leda and the Swan, the Mona Lisa, and The Last Supper. As was common at the time, most of his paintings had religious themes.

Leonardo also developed an intense interest in nonartistic subjects. He worked as a civil and military engineer and mapmaker for Cesare Borgia, where he applied his growing knowledge of mechanics.

He immersed himself in fields as diverse as anatomy, biology, mathematics, and physics. His scientific studies—particularly in the fields of anatomy, optics, and hydraulics—anticipated many of the developments of modern science. His scientific theories, like his artistic innovations, were based on careful observation and precise documentation, and he understood the importance of precision in science. His interest in anatomy led him to perform dissections, and he studied blood circulation and the action of the eye. He systematically studied the flight of birds, which he applied in his drawings and discussions of ornithopters and other flying crafts. His flying devices, although impracticable, embodied sound principles of aerodynamics.

Leonardo made discoveries in meteorology and geology, learned the effect of the moon on the tides, foreshadowed modern theories of the formation of continents, and deduced the nature of fossil shells. He was among the originators of the science of hydraulics and probably devised the hydrometer. He invented a large number of potentially useful and ingenious machines and devices, among them an underwater diving suit.

Unfortunately, many of his scientific projects and treatises were never completed. He recorded his technical notes and sketches in numerous notebooks that made up the Codex Atlanticus. But his practice of using mirror script (his writing had to be read in a mirror to be deciphered) contributed to his discoveries and observations remaining unread and undisseminated for centuries after his death.

Leonardo died at the age of 67 on May 2, 1519, at Cloux, near Amboise, France.

Why study computer science?

Computer Science is an exciting, growing, challenging field that has impact in most aspects of everyday life. These areas include medicine, communications, auotomotive technology, weather forcasting, entertainment, mining, pharmacology, forensics, manufacturing, disaster recovery, security, law, business. For practically any area you can think of there is an application of computer technology. Yet there are still many new computer applications to be discovered and implemented in that area, and you could be involved in that exciting endeavor and service to humanity.

Now for practicalities: Computer science graduates are still some of the most sought-after graduates and earn among the highest salaries right out of college. So while the news talks about how some of the routine jobs have gone “off shore”, there is still ample opportunity for talented computer science majors.

What also is valued by our graduates’ employers is all the problem solving skills and analytical abilities they developed in studying computer science. These skills also prove valuable to many areas of endeavor, and, in fact, a significant number of our CS graduates bring those skills to medical school or other professional schools.

Growing Fields Related to Computer Science

Security Analysis

Face recognition; email patterns; finding odd behavior in a crowd; breaking codes: issues that would be addressed by a computer scientist interested in security. One of our graduates just got a full scholarship and a very nice stipend to study this area in graduate school.

Bioinformatics

A good field for someone with an additional interest in biology or chemistry. Analyzing gene sequence data to search disease markers, for example, requires sophisticated computer algorithms, large databases, and massive computer power. One of our graduates recently landed a job working with the Washington University Humane Genome project program.

Game Programming

Games have surpassed movies in income production. One of our faculty has been involved in commercial game production and brings that expertise to his software engineering course, where there is a semester long group project developing a game. Recently a friend of his, who is president of a subsidiary of Pixar, gave a talk on game production to the math/CS club.

Medicine

Artificial intelligence is used to build expert systems that make diagnoses or check for drug interactions. Medical imaging requires complicated image processing. Three dimensional visualization, like the NLM's visible human project, requires graphics and intense computing power. Mapping the brain's response to stimuli is powered by computer simulations. One of our graduates who works at the SLU medical school in brain research says “it’s all about programming and mathematics.”

Communications

This is a huge field and will remain a big employer. Issues that are adressed here include networking, data encoding and encryption, wireless technology, and much more.

Nail Art

Nail art is one of craziest item in manicure for women. Many brides love doing manicure and spend time happily in painting it. Now the trend has changed as decorating the nail with art than just polishing. Mostly the manicure with nail art are done on long nails, that is how long the nail length is you will get more canvas to paint on. And each nail has art affixed to or painted on it. But it is also possible that you could wear nail art on short nails and this is mainly done during bridal make-ups, and also we can keep it simple with just one enhanced nail.



It’s a good place to start if you're new to nail art. You can experiment with one nail before you get a full set of decorated fingernails.



Round pink nail tips with a silver glitter line and small flower stickers. This type of line at the end of the nail bed is a popular alternative French Manicure style. It is also fairly easy to do yourself because you can do it freehand without a guide. Nail art stickers in a lot of nail art designs are applied to each nail but alternating fingernails looks fine, too

You can learn yourself in detail by seeing this video

Buying Gold For Investing

When buying gold and gold ornaments we should first check for purity of the metal. A perfect gold metal will be 24 carrot that is 100 percent. But the gold ornaments can be mixed with other metals like copper in a less fraction.

Many jewelry shops may provide you with 916 kdm jewelry. In case do not forget to collect your guarantee card from the vendor. Likely it is advised to avoid investing on gold ornaments but investing on gold coins is very costly and effective.

Care Before generous management tasks

It is not enough for people to have guidance latent; they have to have temperament and the right surroundings in which to grow. Before I give a star significant leadership responsibility,

I find it ready to lend a hand to ask in my opinion several questions:

1. What will this individual do to like? It is nice to liked, but as a leader, it cannot be the scheming factor. The cause is required to be the most important motivator.

2. Does this individual have a negative weakness? There only two possessions you need to know about you: your productive strength and any destructive weakness.

3. Can you provide this person the location to succeed? It is so main, particularly in the in the early hours days of someone's headship, that he or she be put into a congenial environment. Young leaders need surroundings in which they can deliberate on leading.

Poor communication speaker

If your speech is full of ums, ers and ahs and feeling ashamed of it. And do you think that this behavior of yours make the listeners mad. Don’t feel dishearten this behavior of yours make you the memorable speaker says the latest scientific research.

This behavior is often described as a poor communication. This disfluency slows down our speech making the listener to better understand and pay more attention.

Stirling and Edinburgh university scientists invited volunteers to listen to a number of statements that include disfluencies sentences. And the scientist conducted a series of test to find out how well the volunteers have understood the statements.

It twisted out that the ers inserted into the sentences had a momentous effect on the knack of the subjects to remember the information. After hearing typical sentences with inserted disfluencies, the volunteers got 62 per cent of words correct compared to 55 per cent for sentences with no trip over.

The disfluency becomes a useful break to the expected practice of things says Dr. Martin Corley. He also said that “It’s better to pay attention now, because what I expected was going to happen is in fact not going to happen” this is same as if we are saying to ourselves.

Till now politicians, broadcasters, lawyers and other speakers try to avoid this type of disfluencies from their speech. But now they might find that their ums may be judged as a part of clear communication.

New rodent eating plant

The British botanists in Philippines discovered a carnivorous plant. This plant eats rats and insects. This meat eating plant was discovered in Mount Victoria and is named as Nepenthes attenboroughii.

To catch the insects and rodents the plant produces traps. And also has acid filled digestive enzymes to dissolve its prey.

The discoverers believe that only few hundred of the plants exist in the world.