I was “black” when I read The Odyssey in high school...
...but somehow I never imagined the characters as looking like me.
Why?
Because they were GREEK characters.
I didn’t need Odysseus to look like me to appreciate his story.
I didn’t need Helen of Troy to look like me to understand her importance.
They were Greek characters from a specific culture, with a specific history.
And this is what Hollywood keeps getting wrong.
We don’t identify with characters because they look like us.
We connect with them because we recognize something human in them - their struggles, their courage, their flaws, their values.
Odysseus is a GREEK hero.
Helen of Troy is a GREEK woman.
Their identities are part of what makes their stories meaningful.
Casting Colombians and Africans and Indians as Greek ISN'T "representation."
It’s just insulting.
Stop it.
The International Space Station is the most complex structure ever assembled in space.
Most people know that.
Fewer know how close it came to never being built, and why. [1/7]
🚨 𝐁𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐊𝐈𝐍𝐆: Real Madrid have changed their STANCE on Rodri.
José Mourinho wanted a different type of midfielder, and the club has now agreed to pursue the Man City player.
Real Madrid have informed Rodri that they will try to SIGN him after the World Cup, with Rodri also wanting a move to the Bernabéu.
[@Sergivalentin_]
There's every possibility France will rout the English today.
The French already knew that Spain would be difficult,but the English are yet to recover from their loss
So of the two losers, the French are in a better frame of mind.
(My Opine) permit me.
This is probably the clearest example of an actual academic collapse.
Weiss entered MIT in 1950, initially studied electrical engineering and then transferred to physics. During his third year, a painful romantic breakup overwhelmed him.
In his own Nobel autobiography, he states plainly;
“I failed all my courses at MIT and had to leave as a student.”
He was no longer progressing toward a degree. He returned to MIT not as a student but as an hourly electronics technician in Jerrold Zacharias’s atomic-beam laboratory. He punched a time clock and worked alongside machinists and laboratory technicians.
That apparent demotion became his real education. Weiss learned machining, sheet-metal work, soldering, welding, electronic design and the improvisational craft of experimental physics.
Instead of merely solving prepared textbook problems, he helped graduate students construct the instruments required for their research and worked on an early caesium atomic clock. With Zacharias’s support, he eventually completed his undergraduate degree and entered graduate school.
Decades later, Weiss became the central experimental architect behind laser-interferometric gravitational-wave detection.
He shared the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics with Kip Thorne and Barry Barish for decisive contributions to LIGO and the observation of gravitational waves.
ISAAC NEWTON: "I have a fundamental belief in the Bible as the Word of God. I study the Bible daily.
All my discoveries have been made in answer to prayer."