preparing my data and process to post the quotes from the book Delusions of Gender: The Real Science Behind Sex Differences goodreads.com/book/show/1613… I found this reference "... and Sophie Germain were obliged to present themselves as men to carry out their research"
and I know where she lived until her death! 13 Rue de Savoie, Paris goo.gl/maps/JzVbiLDvU…
More on here from Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophie_Ge… She exchanged letters and works with Lagrange and Gauss. Gauss recommended she should awarded an honorary degree, but never occurred....
It has been more than 1yr already. Good to review one of the biggest lessons in 2020: a crisis like a pandemia can be managed and contained with global cooperation and difficult and hard decisions based on facts, sometimes preliminary until we get more ourworldindata.org/coronavirus
What does not mix well is: totalitarian regimes and science and openness and collaboration: bbc.com/news/world-asi…
the Chinese government is building the story that "...the virus came from somewhere - anywhere - but here" nytimes.com/interactive/20…
Last February 25th 2020 I got The Black Death book by Philip Ziegler, amazing book and a great deep dive even for non historians.
Started to read when the news from the cruise in China were approaching the level of "hum, maybe this is it..." "Are they telling all the truth?" And also "it is far away"
Ironic that Ziegler points and exactly to that: regions and people farther away started to hear about the deaths in the East, and saying to themselves "too far away" and kept going on their businesses
#SciFi2020 volviendo a #Fahrenheit2020, a qué se refiere Farrel (o Bradbury) cuándo habla de libros? Es lo importante el formato físico? El formato de "libro" me refiero, sea impreso, en e-book o audio book
Faber dice, asombrado ante el plan de Montag: "We do need knowedge" "The books are to remind us what asses and fools we are"
Continua "They're Caesar's praetorian guard, whispering as the parade roars down the avenue, 'Remember, Caesar, thou art mortal.'"