Friday Ephemera (828)
Confounding house numbers, 1961. || “Dad, you can carry big rocks.” || Dawn upwardsness. || It’s possible they went too far. || The formidable Miss Whiplash. || Boy Wonder, big pants, Batman in a jam, 1943. || “Photography not permitted.” || Japanese people encounter Marmite. || Mole relocation. || For manly striding. || “White empiricism” oppresses magic black womanliness, claims bint featured here. || At last, Star Wars… in Welsh. || Mauler parses the moral logic of the latest Spider-Man film. || It’s all in the neck. || Look away now. || The Englishwoman and the Horse, 1981. || Visible roots. || A tour of ancient Rome. || You want one and you know it. || I’m not sure what to call this. || For children of all ages. || Blinky. || And finally, the thrill of smoking toad venom. “Relax,” says he. “Feel the love.”
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It is presumed that black women are “excluded” from physics. Physics is the ultimate objective field but to enter you must be very very smart. Only pure math requires a higher IQ. BUT: plenty of Indians, Chinese are in physics. There is no sense in which physics is “white” nor any probability that subjective blackness can improve it or make new discoveries. Its very virtue is that it is true no matter who you are.
40 yrs ago (yes, I am that old) I saw an article claiming that a group of feminists were going to develop a feminine mathematics. No outcome from this claim that I ever saw and for the same reason.
Don’t recall. But perhaps that is to my benefit.
[ Considers adding hallucinogenic toad venom to contents of cigarette machine. ]
I see your big, confident American woman and raise you a confident American man.