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Alex The G and T said:
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.
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My thoughts went to what the photographer was really trying for. I doubt the male gaze was upon the computer or the chalk board.
 
Parson said:
My thoughts went to what the photographer was really trying for. I doubt the male gaze was upon the computer or the chalk board.
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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."


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Cthulhu.Science said:
who is pictured there?
Is that Hedy Lamar?? She was not only "the most beautiful woman in the world." She was a famous mathematician.
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Cthulhu.Science said:
This looks like the sarcastic juxtaposition of her mathematic skills with her famous quote about how to be glamorous - "stand still and look stupid"
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It could be. It would have been an obvious move.
 
@Harpo --- I suspect that at least a line of the comic did not make it into your post.
 
As regards the smart fabric, I'm not sure making a suit jacket from it is really the best use. He says that it stores heat in the warm and then releases it in the cold. When it's warm, I take my jacket off. When it's cold, I wear base layers or else I put on another jersey. When it's cold, it isn't usually my core body temperature that is a problem (if it were then I'd be dying from hypothermia) but it's my extremities, like my fingers and toes. I'm at an age where even several pairs of gloves and socks aren't enough anymore. However, you can buy heated hand warmers and shoe insoles, but they are single use. I do think there would be a market if they could invent insoles and gloves made in some smart fabric that you could microwave. (There are already hot water bottles.)

Sorry, just realised this is an "old tech" thread, not new. Can I therefore say that I think stone hot water bottles are several times better than modern rubber hot water bottles, and they don't leak when they get old and degraded.
 
Dave said:
When it's cold, it isn't usually my core body temperature that is a problem (if it were then I'd be dying from hypothermia) but it's my extremities, like my fingers and toes. I'm at an age where even several pairs of gloves and socks aren't enough anymore.
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@Dave have you considered you may have Raynaud's syndrome? I suffer from it but there is medication that completely eliminates it and makes winter much more bearable.
 
mosaix said:
@Dave have you considered you may have Raynaud's syndrome? I suffer from it but there is medication that completely eliminates it and makes winter much more bearable.
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I might, but I do have some other problems that probably contribute to it, and hopefully those will get sorted very soon. Also, I'm probably out in the cold more than other sensible people who just stay home with the fire on.
 
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Frightened villagers “killed” the first hydrogen balloon, launched in Paris by Jacques Charles and the Robert brothers Anne-Jean and Nicolas-Louis on Aug. 27, 1783. Allen Andrews, in Back to the Drawing Board: The Evolution of Flying Machines, quotes a contemporary account:

It is presumed that it was carried to a height of more than 20,000 feet, when it burst by the reaction of the Inflammable Gas upon the Atmospheric Air. It fell at three quarters past five near Gonesse, ten miles [actually, 15 miles] from the Field of Mars. The affrightened inhabitants ran together, appalled by the Hellish stench of sulphur, and two monks having assured them it was the skin of a Monstrous Animal, they attacked it with stones, pitchforks and flails. The Curate of the village was obliged to attend in order to sprinkle it with holy water and remove the fears of his astonished parishioners. At last they tied to the tail of a horse the first Instrument that was ever made for an Experiment in Natural Philosophy, and trained it across the field more than 6000 feet.
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Perhaps forewarned, the first man to undertake a balloon flight in North America carried a pass from George Washington.

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Frightened villagers “killed” the first hydrogen balloon, launched in Paris by Jacques Charles and the Robert brothers Anne-Jean and Nicolas-Louis on Aug. 27, 1783. Allen Andrews, in Back to the Drawing Board: The Evolution of Flying Machines, quotes a contemporary account: It is presumed that...
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