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Lifelong learning as a start up

Elon Musk

Elon Reeve Musk is an engineer, industrial designer and technology entrepreneur. He has a net worth of $44.2 billion and is listed by Forbes as the 20th richest person in the world. C awaiting Canadian documentation, Musk attended the University of Pretoria for five months. Once in Canada, Musk entered Queen's University in 1989, avoiding mandatory service in the South African military. He left in 1992 to study business and physics at the University of Pennsylvania; he graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in economics and a Bachelor of Arts degree in physics. Musk had several different projects, for example Zip2, when the company was sold Musk received US$22 million for his 7 percent share. Also Elon made the PayPal company. Tesla is also a company, made by Musk. Elon Musk have definitely been learning different things in his life and it was really beneficial for him.

Steve Jobs

Steven Paul Jobs was an American business magnate, industrial designer, investor. The location of the Los Altos home meant that Jobs would be able to attend nearby Homestead High School, which had strong ties to Silicon Valley, he decided to enroll in John McCollum's "Electronics 1». In September 1972, Jobs enrolled at Reed College in Portland, Oregon. After just one semester, Jobs dropped out of Reed College without telling his parents. Jobs later explained that he decided to drop out because he did not want to spend his parents' money on an education that seemed meaningless to him. Then Jobs with Wozniak made a computer in a garage and Apple started.

Bill Gates

William Henry Gates III is an American business magnate, software developer, investor, and philanthropist. He is best known as the co-founder of Microsoft Corporation. Gates took an interest in programming the GE system in BASIC, and he was excused from math classes to pursue his interest. He wrote his first computer program on this machine, an implementation of tic-tac-toe that allowed users to play games against the computer when he was 13 years old. The four students had formed the Lakeside Programmers Club to make money. He enrolled at Harvard College in the autumn of 1973 and chose a pre-law major but took mathematics and graduate level computer science courses. The Bill Gates started Microsoft. So we can clearly see that he was very interested in computer science for the whole life and used it as a start up.

Larry Page

Lawrence Edward Page is an American computer scientist and Internet entrepreneur. He is best known for being one of the co-founders of Google along with Sergey Brin. Page was an avid reader during his youth and he also played the flute and studied music composition while growing up. Page was first attracted to computers when he was six years old. Larry also realized he wanted to invent things. So Page became really interested in technology and business. Page attended the Okemos Montessori Schoolin Okemos, Michigan, from 1975 to 1979, and graduated from East Lansing High School in 1991. He attended Interlochen Center for the Arts as a saxophonist for two summers while in high school. Page holds a Bachelor of Science in computer engineering from the University of Michigan, with honors and a Master of Science in computer science from Stanford University. Larry has been learning his whole life and even his music career helped him to make a fast Google browser.

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Mythical Book for scientists

Dear Scientist,

In this book you will find the list of world’s most mythical and eerie mysteries. This book is made for scientists, so if you are not a scientist you shouldn’t read this book. If you are a scientist then you need to know what things you can do your research about and maybe you will even find a new type of animals or prove that the mysterious animals are just a myth. This book will also provide the information that we already know about objects and places.

1.          Roswell UFO

The sceptic journalist Ruth Bradley was asked to go on the UFO Festival in Roswell, New Mexico. There she visited key-sites where the UFO cases unfolded.

      First of all, they went to the spot where cattle farmer came across large pieces of debris and a huge hole in the ground.

      Secondly, the group wandered to the building 84 where the remains of the aircraft were examined. “It was an impressive sight” – journalist says. The witnesses said that aircraft was made of a material light as plastic, strong as steel, impossible to burn and covered in hieroglyphics.

      Thirdly, tourists visited the town of Socorro where Lonnie Zamora reported about an oval-shaped object with two small creatures inside.

2.    Bigfoot and the other creatures

The Loren Coleman – museum owner, our fellow scientist, cryptozoologist. He spent his whole life trying to find all of the legendary beasts such as yetis, lake monsters, giant snakes and chupacabras.

The cryptozoologist was trying to find an evidence of the creature’s existence such as footprints, hair samples, scratches, audio tapes of screeches, videos and photos by camping all over the continent and abroad.

3.        Haunted Buildings in London

First of all, the Tower of London has a long, cruel story of imprisonment, trials, executions and torture. There are numerous stories of ghostly goings-on in the Tower of London.

      Secondly, The Theatre Royal is the oldest working theatre in London. Many phantoms appear here during the performances and sometimes kick actors, ushers and cleaners.

4.        Mysterious places

First of all, in New Mexico people are constantly hearing “the Hum”. Investigators have suggested that noise is caused by sounds produced naturally by the ear or by waves crashing together on the ocean floor.

Secondly, there is a tree in the middle of a desert, miles from any other form of vegetation, with no apparent source of water. The tree survived in the desert for 400 years.

Thirdly, every year in the October during the full moon hundreds of red glowing balls of light are seen shooting up and exploding in mid-air.

Finally, the Black Mountain in Australia is formed from volcanic magma and made up of a labyrinth of massive black boulders.

5.        Reviving

When the last Pyrenean ibex died the species became extinct, but scientists have already preserved the DNA samples. Using those samples and a domestic goat’s ovary eggs they have revived the Pyrenean ibex for 7 minutes. The scientists say that there is nothing to stop people bringing back dinosaurs.

6.        The Tunguska event

It was around 7 am on 30^th June 1908 when suddenly there was an explosion in the skies above the Podkamennay Tunguska River. Most experts now believe that a comet or an asteroid ripped through the sky, heated the air and eventually exploded.