Exquisitely gifted 13 year old graduates from college with a physics major & a math minor — wants to apply for PhD programs but his parents can’t afford it. (nitter.snopyta.org)

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[-] BeamBrain@hexbear.net 0 points 3 years ago

"I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops."

[-] a_fanonist_hexagon@hexbear.net 0 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago)

Stephen Jay Gould, celebrated biologist

[-] LoudMuffin@hexbear.net 1 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago)

Marxist* Biologist

also quite bizarrely close friends with Alan Dershowitz :thinking-about-it:

[-] KasDapital@hexbear.net 1 points 3 years ago

Not sure if Marxist is a good descriptor. From some descriptions rad lib or socdem might be more accurate

[-] LoudMuffin@hexbear.net 1 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago)

Gould did not openly identify himself as a Marxist nor did he claim to use dialectical reasoning. Nevertheless many features of Gould’s thought are marked by an influence of Marxism and its dialectical approach.

https://www.marxists.org/history/etol/newspape/atc/1054.html

:sadness:

I listened to this talk a while ago and he very much seems to think like one