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How to Become an Intellectual is at once a
how-to manual and a glib walk through several thousand years of science and culture, complete with cameo appearances by everyone from Plato and Socrates to Freud and Marie Curie.
Available April 2012 in bookstores, as well as
on-line.
Noether and the Tragedy of Forgetting
April 3, 2012
How to explain the unfair obscurity of Amalie Noether (1882-1935)? Inventor of a groundbreaking physics theorem, praised by Albert Einstein as a major thinker, and yet largely forgotten by history. The New York Times piece on her life, published a few days ago, is worthy reading for anyone who wants to add another intellectual to their role-model list.
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