Shakuntala Devi (4 November 1929 – 21 April 2013) was an Indian mental calculator and writer, popularly known as the "Human Computer". Her talent earned her a place in the 1982 edition of The Guinness Book of World Records. However, the certificate for the record was given posthumously on 30 July 2020, despite Devi achieving her world record on 18 June 1980 at Imperial College, London. Devi was a precocious child and she demonstrated her arithmetic abilities at the University of Mysore without any formal education.
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This is why the extinction of languages & globalization of "developed" cultures dumbs down humanity, its permanent loss that we are definitively incapable of measuring. Eurocentric/abrahamic philosophy is 🗑️🚮, there are/were unimaginably mind bending ways ppl lived life.
@StevieDougie@ent_shank@MUSICANDBUILDS in other words y'all, he's saying black women are welfare queens. he came to a post about black femicide to insult the victims. he could be a bot, he could be a person, either way it's heartless as hell.
@mylovedes2 because in France they don't have militarized police. so they can destroy public property at will without worrying about armored vehicles filled with officers armed to the teeth.
Albert Einstein and Marie Curie reminiscing by a lake, 1929.
In 1906, Curie's husband, Pierre, was killed. She later became close to Pierre’s student, Paul Langevin, who was separated from his abusive wife.
Langevin's wife exposed their relationship to the press, creating a scandal and forcing Curie and her daughter into hiding. Langevin tried to defend Curie's reputation in an unarmed duel with a tabloid editor.
During this, Einstein sent Curie a letter expressing his admiration and support:
"Highly esteemed Mrs. Curie, Do not laugh at me for writing you without having anything sensible to say. But I am so enraged by the base manner in which the public is presently daring to concern itself with you that I absolutely must give vent to this feeling.
However, I am convinced that you consistently despise this rabble, whether it obsequiously lavishes respect on you or whether it attempts to satiate its lust for sensationalism! I am impelled to tell you how much I have come to admire your intellect, your drive, and your honesty, and that I consider myself lucky to have made your personal acquaintance in Brussels.
Anyone who does not number among these reptiles is certainly happy, now as before, that we have such personages among us as you, and Langevin too, real people with whom one feels privileged to be in contact. If the rabble continues to occupy itself with you, then simply don’t read that hogwash, but rather leave it to the reptile for whom it has been fabricated.
With most amicable regards to you, Langevin, and Perrin, yours very truly, A. Einstein"
Despite the scandal, Curie won her second Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1911.
A Florida man will not face charges after he shot 30 rounds from his AR-15 at his pool cleaner whom he mistook for an intruder
Pinellas County sheriff said Florida’s Stand Your Ground Law is applicable to the situation
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