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[Alex The G and T]

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My goodness. I did not know that they had "Burn-my-bra" feminists in 1955.

I always thought that my mother was one of the Steinam originals in the '60's.

 

[Parson]

My goodness. I did not know that they had "Burn-my-bra" feminists in 1955.

I always thought that my mother was one of the Steinam originals in the '60's.

My thoughts went to what the photographer was really trying for. I doubt the male gaze was upon the computer or the chalk board.

 

[Cthulhu.Science]

My thoughts went to what the photographer was really trying for. I doubt the male gaze was upon the computer or the chalk board.

who is pictured there?
Is that Hedy Lamar?? She was not only "the most beautiful woman in the world." She was a famous mathematician.
This looks like the sarcastic juxtaposition of her mathematic skills with her famous quote about how to be glamorous - "stand still and look stupid"

The Buckaroo Bonsai of her day.

Hedy Lamarr (1903-2000) is perhaps best known as an actress ("the most beautiful woman in the world") but she was also an inventor. Along with composer George Antheil, she designed a long-distance system to manipulate radio frequencies at regular intervals to form an unbreakable code to prevent interception of classified messages by the enemy. They received a patent in 1941, but the significance was not realized until much later; it was first used during the Cuban Missile Crisis and then in other military operations. Today their “spread spectrum” technology is used in mobile telephone technology; there is a recent documentary about her work. She famously remarked that "any girl can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid."


Research Guides: Women in Science: Mathematics & Computers

 

[dask]

By now we should have at least a system of pulleys:

 

[Parson]

who is pictured there?
Is that Hedy Lamar?? She was not only "the most beautiful woman in the world." She was a famous mathematician.

This looks like the sarcastic juxtaposition of her mathematic skills with her famous quote about how to be glamorous - "stand still and look stupid"

It could be. It would have been an obvious move.

 

[dask]

Doesn't really look like Hedy Lamarr to me but I'm not ready to argue the point.

 

[Harpo]

 

[Parson]

@Harpo --- I suspect that at least a line of the comic did not make it into your post.

 

[dask]

 

[Ursa major]

That's a completely different take on a clamshell phone....

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