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Microplastics Sommelier@leastactionhero.bsky.social |
einstein sent this to curie in 1911 when she was being harassed by tabloids. it contains everything you’d want in such a letter: (1) your haters are trash (2) you’re a baller, a true queen (3) i have determined the statistical law of motion of the diatomic molecule in planck’s radiation field 🧪⚛️
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CircusNoBread
@berkeleyeve.bsky.social
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🥰🥰🥰
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cognitively accessible math
@geonz.bsky.social
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I also asked the question: is this real? Welp, it's every bit the antithesis of chatbot material.
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@wanderingincode.bsky.social
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Slid right into her DMs
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Neil Mackenzie
@nmackenzie.bsky.social
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By the time Einstein wrote to her Marie Curie had already won two Nobel Prizes, which he never did. Einstein had done the work he won his Nobel Prize for - photoelectric effect - as well as Special Relativity which should have got him a prize
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Christopher Quirk
@christopherquirk.bsky.social
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This is amazing.
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lexa prole 2024
@lexaprole.bsky.social
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what a friggin g 🥰
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Martin Schneider
@wovenstrap.bsky.social
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Not that it matters but "highly esteemed" is the most normal possible way of opening a letter like this in German at that time. "Sehr geehrte" is a phrase that every German speaker knows, the way we know "sincerely yours" without exactly knowing why we know it.
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Jake Cob
@jakobpunkt.bsky.social
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Wait I need the context. Marie Curie had haters?
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Kate Watson
@loreandordure.com
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📌
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Phil Parkman
@pparkman.bsky.social
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Things I've always wanted to say -> I have determined a law of nature by means of a comical witticism ...
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DON FERRARI
@donferrari.bsky.social
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✊️😤
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Cynbel Terreus
@cynbelterreus.bsky.social
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"Fuck these people ignore them, you are amazing, also here's this cool thing I did"
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Steve McPherson (opinion)
@steventurous.bsky.social
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I need to know more about the comical witticism. Was it "Who smelt it dealt it"?
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Brandon Frick
@brandonfrick.bsky.social
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Aplomb with comical witticisms, indeed, old chap!
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Tay
@tayplaysgaymes.bsky.social
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Legends supporting legends.
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Nicole
@nicole3791.bsky.social
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I wish he would have been that decent towards Mileva
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Stephen Webb
@stephenwebb.bsky.social
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To throw some extra context here, the tabloids were flipping out because the widowed Marie was in a relationship with the married but separated Langevin (who had been Pierre Curie's grad student) and the tabloids were calling her a foreign Jewish homewrecker. Classic tabloid shit.
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jad 📸
@aerojad.bsky.social
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the "if the rabble continues to occupy itself with you..." line is king shit
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KitNCaboodle
@kitncaboodle.bsky.social
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Great and all, but you still notice he calls her Mrs. Curie, not Dr. Curie.
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Chuck
@hgchuck.bsky.social
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I read the P.S. as "I have determined the statistical law of motion [etc.] based on classical mechanics, but in 1911 we're already starting to understand that classical mechanics don't apply at the atomic scale, so it's probably wrong anyway, lol."
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Lena
@puncake.bsky.social
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Did it also contain 4) "You can take credit on point 3 because so many men have taken yours away"
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Michel Obultra
@stronk.bsky.social
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isn't that what he won the nobel for?
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Reporting History
@reportinghistory.bsky.social
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By the way he dropped "comic witticism" all I could think is "wait, was this by Babbage?"
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May Fürhst, Queen of the Hectocotylus
@inkloaded.bsky.social
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Lou Wojcinski
@louwojcinski.bsky.social
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Trying to decide the best part. “Leave it to the reptiles… “ is something I need to pocket for future meetings. But that whole PS about calculating the motion of diatomic molecules as an Oh, by-the-way kind of add-on is too funny.
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Heather Wallace
@burntcopper.bsky.social
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'leave it to the reptile to which it has been fabricated' is a line and a half
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❀°。der Siebenschläfer *.ﾟ✿ ⋆
@sababausa.bsky.social
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Charles Darwin to Harvard’s Asa Gray, April 19, 1865:
(1) I congratulate you on Lee’s surrender
(2) I always thought that the destruction of Slavery would be worth even a dozen years war
(3) How could the wind fertilize “reciprocally dimorphic” flowers like Primula?
www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter
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Ron Cox
@monkyhead.bsky.social
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*An* Einstein, smart guy.
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Former Pingu Child Actor
@heresy.bsky.social
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The only good repy guy
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Your Honor, pls
@mrmambo.bsky.social
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Damn but that's some language. And they said he was 'slow' in school.
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jtadetroit.bsky.social 🇵🇸 🇺🇦
@jtadetroit.bsky.social
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Putting (3) as a PS is the icing on the cake
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Colon Musk, CEO of GaceX
@themilfmag.net
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📌
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Emad Saad🇵🇸✌🍉Palestinian never will be spam never harm people
@emadmoh.bsky.social
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Can anyone help me please share or donate if you can please for my family My mom so sick she needs treatment out of Gaza
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Nick Goede
@ngoede.bsky.social
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The third point is much better than I expected since it is an in joke lol
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Lux in the Bronx 🎗️
@rlux.nyc
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I love this.
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Sean of the 418 I'm a teapot
@sheepbop.bsky.social
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Comical! I laughed.
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Merry Hadaway
@kindjourneys.bsky.social
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This is magnificent!!
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