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Maurice Wilkins

Geniuses born today: December 15

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Jackie Chan

A Hong Kong actor, director and martial artist known for his slapstick acrobatic fighting style, ...

Charlie Spencer Chaplin

Life is a beautiful magnificent thing, even to a jellyfish.Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin was an Eng...

Anne Robert Jacques Turgot

Anne Robert Jacques Turgot

A French economist and statesman.

Hans Christian Andersen

Hans Christian Andersen

A Danish author who is one of the most well-known authors of fairy tales.

Anthony van Dyck

Anthony van Dyck

A Flemish Baroque artist who became the leading court painter in England after success in the Sou...

Barbara McClintock

Barbara McClintock

An American scientist and cytogeneticist.

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Joseph Joachim, endurance violinist

Joseph Joachim, endurance violinist

Joachim the man is said by one who has known him intimately for years to be a most delightful companion. Cultured in the highest degree, he is ever ready to enter into serious discussion about music, and artistic and philosophical subjects, upon all of which his utterance are of deep interest and well thought out.He is a jovial and boon companion, the possessor of an inexhaustible store of anecdote upon which he is always ready to draw for his friends; but he has never been known to speak in any but the most generous terms of a brother artist. He is, of course, entirely free for...

The History of Feminism: Marie-Jean-Antoine-Nicolas de Caritat, Marquis de Condorcet

The History of Feminism: Marie-Jean-Antoine-Nicolas de Caritat, Marquis de Condorcet

plato.stanford.edu

Marie-Jean-Antoine-Nicolas de Caritat, Marquis de Condorcet (September 17, 1743–March 28, 1794) is most often referred to as one of the last philosophes or as an early champion of social science. An inspired proponent of human rights, Condorcet moved from his first achievements in mathematics into public service, with the aim of applying to social and political affairs a scientific model that he termed a “social arithmetic”. Through educational and constitutional reforms, he hoped to create a liberal, rational and democratic polity. He advocated for the social utility of statist...

The original suffragette: the extraordinary Mary Wollstonecraft

The original suffragette: the extraordinary Mary Wollstonecraft

theguardian.com

Meet the original suffragette: Mary Wollstonecraft. The founder of feminism, a philosopher, travel writer, human rights activist, she was a profound influence on the Romantics, and an educational pioneer. In Virginia Woolf’s words, “we hear her voice and trace her influence even now among the living.” This may be true, but it’s not as true as I’d like. The writer of Vindication of the Rights of Men (1790) and Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792) sank into relative obscurity after her death, aged 38. Why?Wollstonecraft was born in 1759 into a picturesquely bleak family. She had a...

There’s a link between autism and genius

There’s a link between autism and genius

After a 45-minute helicopter ride over Rome, the artist Stephen Wiltshire drew a vast, 51/2-yard-wide cityscape in striking detail from memory. It was described as “frighteningly right.”Flo and Kay are identical twin sisters who memorized every question and answer (as well as what the host wore) from every episode of their favorite game show. They have a near-encyclopedic memory for musicians and album release dates.Richard Wawro was a fantastically prolifi...

Joseph Joachim, endurance violinist

The History of Feminism: Marie-Jean-Antoine-Nicolas de Caritat, Marquis de Condorcet

The original suffragette: the extraordinary Mary Wollstonecraft

There’s a link between autism and genius

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10 Things You May Not Know About James Madison

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10 Things You May Not Know About James Madison

1. He was America’s smallest president.Madison was a sickly and slightly built man who stood just 5 feet 4 inches tall and rarely tipped the scales at much more than 100 pounds. His voice was so weak that people often had difficulty hearing his speeches, and he was plagued by recurring bouts ...

François de La Mothe Le Vayer, Dialogues faits à l’imitation des Anciens

literature

François de La Mothe Le Vayer, Dialogues faits à l’imitation des Anciens

Tornato all’attenzione della critica soltanto con il rinnovamento delle ricerche sul libertinaggio, La Mothe Le Vayer si rivela, con la riscoperta dei suoi scritti filosofici, personaggio di grande interesse nella costellazione libertina. I dieci dialoghi qui ripropost...

Revealing the personal side of the atomic scientist who changed the world

Physics

Revealing the personal side of the atomic scientist who changed the world

Sir John Cockcroft was one of the most important and influential scientists of the modern era. He was the joint winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics (1951) for his pioneering work at the Cavendish Laboratory on the artificial disintegration of atoms.His research facilitated the developmen...