Taylor Alison Swift is an American singer-songwriter. She is known for narrative songs about her personal life, which have received widespread media coverage. At age 14, Swift became the youngest artist signed by the Sony/ATV Music publishing house and, at 15, she signed her first record deal.
Her 2006 eponymous debut album was the longest-charting album of the 2000s in the US. Its third single, "Our Song", made her the youngest person to single-handedly write and perform a number-one song on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. Swift's second album, Fearless, was released in 2008.
Buoyed by the pop crossover success of the singles "Love Story" and "You Belong with Me", it became the US' best-selling album of 2009 and was certified diamond in the US. The album won four Grammy Awards, and Swift became the youngest Album of the Year winner.
Professor explains why you need to be good at maths to be a palaeontologist
dailystar.co.ukDiscovery Education. Lamanna's role includes the study of dinosaurs, the exciting job of naming new species and travelling to uncover dinosaurs.The laboratory work associated with the role involves studying dinosaur bones and determining firstly what dinosaur they belong to and also what the dinosaurs are related to.
Speaking of the world where palaeontology and mathematics combine, Lamanna said, 'One of the reasons I did well in math when I was at school is because I knew that it would help me as a palaeontologist.' One of the simpler ways that basic mathematical skills are relied on is in order to decipher budgets for teams heading out into the field.
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