Happy 141st birthday to one of the brilliant minds in history, fundamental figure in the development of abstract algebra, discoverer of Noether's theorem, Amalie Emmy Noether who was born on 23rd of March 1882 in Erlangen, Germany.
Amalie Emmy Noether was born in a world in which women were not always appreciated for their intellect. In the German city in which her family lived, the local university—the University of Erlangen entirely prohibited women from being accepted as students.
Despite this, Noether managed to gain special permission to sit in on lectures. This exception presumably had something to do with her father, who was a professor of mathematics at the school. Seven years later, she became the first woman to earn a doctorate degree from the university. In 1915, David Hilbert and Felix Klein invited her to work at the University of Göttingen, a world-renowned mathematical institute, to help solve a key problem in the field of general relativity, which treats gravity as a bending of space caused by mass and energy.
The theory seemed to have a serious sickness: Energy caused the bending of space, but gravity itself was energy. Thus, it would seem that the energy of bending space made yet more energy. Presumably, this would bend space more, resulting in more energy. It seemed like the theory could cascade in this manner to the point that energy would grow forever.
And because this didn’t happen, there needed to be a solution. Emmy’s solution, which has come to be called Noether’s theorem, was worked out in the same year she arrived and had far-ranging implications.
source: — The Theory of Everything: The Quest to Explain All Reality by Professor Don Lincoln — Nature’s Blueprint: Supersymmetry and the Search for a Unified Theory of Matter and Force by Cosmologist Dan Hooper
While she’s often overlooked, Lucy Meriwether Lewis Marks made an indirect but important contribution to the Lewis and Clark Expedition’s outcome.
Due to her extensive knowledge of herbs, wild plants and their medicinal properties her neighbors sought her out for herbal doctoring. She passed this wisdom on to her son Meriwether Lewis, who applied these skills when leading the Corps of Discovery. Lewis acted as the expedition’s botanist, meticulously documenting the native plants he encountered in his journals. More importantly, he used the herbal remedies he learned from his mother to treat the soldiers under his care.
Join historic interpreter Mary Jane Bradbury at 6:30 p.m. at the Lewis and Clark Library on March 23, 2023 as she unveils the story of this remarkable woman and her indelible impact on one of the key players in early United States history.
Photo courtesy of the University of Virginia Art Museum
Without solitude, Love will not stay long by your side.
Because Love needs to rest, so that it can journey through the heavens and reveal itself in other forms.
Without solitude, no plant or animal can survive, no soil can remain productive, no child can learn about life, no artist can create, no work can grow and be transformed.
Solitude is not the absence of Love, but its complement.
Solitude is not the absence of company, but the moment when our soul is free to speak to us and help us decide what to do with our life.
Therefore, blessed are those who do not fear solitude, who are not afraid of their own company, who are not always desperately looking for something to do, something to amuse themselves with, something to judge.
If you are never alone, you cannot know yourself.
And if you do not know yourself, you will begin to fear the void.
Paulo Coelho, Manuscript Found in Accra
Meet The Forgotten Heroine …
Rosalind Elsie Franklin (25 July 1920 – 16 April 1958) was a British chemist and X-ray crystallographer whose work was central to the understanding of the molecular structures of DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid), RNA (ribonucleic acid), viruses, coal, and graphite.
Although her works on coal and viruses were appreciated in her lifetime, Franklin’s contributions to the discovery of the structure of DNA were largely unrecognized during her life, for which she has been variously referred to as the "wronged heroine", "the "dark lady of DNA".
Franklin was never nominated for a Nobel Prize. Her work was a crucial part in the discovery of DNA's structure, which along with subsequent related work led to Francis Crick, James Watson, and Maurice Wilkins being awarded a Nobel Prize in 1962. Franklin had died in 1958, and during her lifetime, the DNA structure was not considered to be fully proven. It took Wilkins and his colleagues about seven years to collect enough data to prove and refine the proposed DNA structure.
“I charge therefore I am”
Descartes when he became a pro cuddler
@MissAdventurous so chocolate ice cream and chocolate donuts should be just fine!
With all my heart I urge you to heal. Take back the power that was stolen from you, right the wrongs, slay the demons and open that Pandora’s box you're keeping so very tightly closed. You have one life sweet one, and you deserve it to be beautiful. You deserve to know what it’s like to be free of the pain they gave you. You deserve to heal and every day you're not healing, you're carrying on a cycle you did not ask for. If I can ever urge you to do just one thing my friend, it’s to heal. Begin. Just by realising how broken you are. And how very brave you’ve been. That’s the key to the box. Turn it. It will hurt for a while but you know about hurt already. It will free you.
Just heal.
Donna Ashworth Art by Josephine Klerks
Jerome Horwitz, famous for playing CURLY in "THE THREE STOOGES", was known to all as a protector of dogs. Curly's contract with Columbia Pictures included a clause that allowed his dogs to accompany him on the studio lot.
Columbia limited it to no more than two dogs at a time, this due to the puppies' unplanned on-camera appearances from time to time. You can still see those surprise dog on set invasions in the first few short films.
Typically surrounded by various dogs, Curly was known to come home with a stray dog and foster it until he could find it a permanent home. When the Stooges were out on the road, Curly took it upon himself to find a new home for at least one stray dog in every town they visited. Curly is estimated to have saved and rescued more than 5,000 dogs in his lifetime.
@MissAdventurous . This makes me and my dogs happy!
Lagertha, c. 12th Century
According to the ancient text the Gesta Danorum, or “Deeds of the Danes” by 12th Century chronicler Saxo Grammaticus, Lagertha was a legendary Viking shieldmaiden. She was related to the Norwegian King Siward.
When the King of Sweden Frø invaded Norway and murdered Siward, he forced all of the King’s female family into a brothel to further humiliate him. Upon learning of this a young Ragnar Lodbrok raised an army to avenge Siward’s death.
Lagertha and many other women managed to escape and, disguising themselves as men, joined Ragnar’s forces. Saxo recounted that “though a maiden [she] had the courage of a man, and fought in front among the bravest with her hair loose over her shoulders. All marvelled at her matchless deeds”. Ragnar was stunned by Lagertha’s courage and insisted she marry him.
She refused and instead decided to test his desire for her. Lagertha summoned him to her home, which she had guarded by a bear and a hound. If Ragnar could reach her, she would marry him. Ragnar killed the bear with a spear, choked the hound and won her hand in marriage.
They had a son together, Fridleif, and two daughters. Later Ragnar travelled to Denmark to fight in a civil war and while there married the daughter of the Swedish King Herraud. He was in need of reinforcements from Norway and a still heartbroken Lagertha came to his aid with 120 ships. At the height of the battle, Lagertha lead a courageous counter attack that ensured their victory.
Returning to Norway she remarried but killed her husband with a spearhead she had concealed in her wedding gown, then “usurped the whole of his name and sovereignty, for [she] thought it pleasanter to rule without her husband than to share the throne with him”.
Source ~ https://womenshistorynetwork.org/real-women-of-vikings/
If other people do not understand our behavior—so what? Their request that we must only do what they understand is an attempt to dictate to us. If this is being "asocial" or "irrational" in their eyes, so be it.
Mostly they resent our freedom and our courage to be ourselves. We owe nobody an explanation or an accounting, as long as our acts do not hurt or infringe on them.
How many lives have been ruined by this need to "explain," which usually implies that the explanation be "understood," i.e. approved. Let your deeds be judged, and from your deeds, your real intentions, but know that a free person owes an explanation only to himself—to his reason and his conscience—and to the few who may have a justified claim for explanation. ~Erich Fromm