1903
Scientist Marie Curie is awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for her discovery of the radioactive elements radium and polonium. She is awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1911, making her the first person to win two Nobel prizes.
A Short History of Women Inventors and Scientists, p.113.
I’ve gotten a few emails asking why we’ve disabled the comments feature, so a few words of explanation are in order. The Daring Book for Girls is being read by girls, and it is being read by older women, and much as we would love to hear all the positive things people have to say, much as we would love to create a venue for the provocative and critical issues the book raises, and much as we would love to create a community for those who are reading the book and who want to come together over it, we are very aware of the real issues surrounding girls and internet use and safety. We can’t assure that the comments–if they are to be true to what adults have to say–would also be appropriate for girls. If girl readers who are avid fans of online social networking want to create a myspace place to be daring girls, more power to them. As you might surmise from our book, we’re not in the business of creating online spaces for girls.
If adults are intrigued by the book, we encourage you to discuss girlhood and womanhood over a pot of tea, a hike in the woods, or while taking out the tools to make a tree swing.
Similarly, we urge daring girls to find each other, in real time and real space, in their own homes and neighborhoods and communities. Look for the other girls hugging the green sparkly cover, and go say hi. You might find them at the local rec center, waiting at the orthodontist’s office, at your family’s place of worship (if you have one), at school, afterschool activities, soccer practice, Girl Scouts, or the bus, to mention just a few. You’ll start to see daring girls everywhere, and we hope you will join together to do activities from the book, make new friends, and seek out fun and adventure.
That’s so much more fun than leaving comments on a blog.
The key to successful tree-clmbing is to understand that you are not pulling yourself up the tree vertically. That’s much too hard. Instead, angle your body against the tree, diagonally, while reaching your arms around the trunk, and pulling up, inch by inch. That way the plane of your body pushes into the tree, which keeps you from falling right down.
Wish I’d known that when I was 8!
Climbing, p. 158