2 posts tagged with "science"

Today I want to lend this humble blog to the plight of the anti-vaxxers, because

“no collective in history was as brutally targeted and demonised as the unjabbed.”

That's right. No collective in history. Ever. And you thought the Cambodian genocide of the Khmer Rouge or the Ukrainian man-made famine of the 1930s were bad! Those events were nothing compared to brutally targeting and demonising those who decide not to vaccinate (in posts like this one).

You probably did not know either that

“Covid is a world war, launched by the ruling class, against humanity.”

Let that sink in. Until today, you knew of wars against political factions, races, classes, countries… but never against the whole of humanity. This is a war against all people, everywhere. Not even the worst conspiracies are that bad, because conspiracies are about a subset of humans against another subset of humans. But with Covid, the “ruling class” (who, presumably, are not human themselves) are attacking the human race as a whole. If this is not alarming, I don't know what is.

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I am a bit embarrassed to notice that this may be the first “biography” I've ever read. It probably is. I'm not sure.

Perhaps due to that lack of experience on my part, I was expecting something a bit different from this book. I had decided I wanted to read it for one simple reason: to (try to) understand what it's like to be really, really intelligent. I had heard all kind of stories about John von Neumann and about his feats. I wanted to delve into that, try to understand how exactly his brain was so different from a normal one. What it meant for him to be so much smarter than almost everyone around him. How he thought, what “extremely intelligent” actually means.

“As a child, von Neumann absorbed Ancient Greek and Latin, and spoke French, German and English as well as his native Hungarian. He devoured a forty-five-volume History of the world and was able to recite whole chapters verbatim decades later.”