physics

Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,488

By Erik Loomis

In General

On November 25, 2023

This is the grave of Richard Feynman. Born in 1918 in New York, Feynman grew up in a middle class Jewish immigrant home that placed a high value on education and never accepting anything as a given. Question everything always is something I can get...

General

Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,438

By Erik Loomis

On September 14, 2023

This is the grave of Mildred Dresselhaus. Born in 1930 in Brooklyn, Mildred Spiewak grew up in a immigrant Jewish family. Both her parents had immigrated from Poland. Good call..

General

Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 202

By Erik Loomis

On February 8, 2018

This is the grave of Enrico Fermi. Born in 1901 in Rome to a prominent political family, Fermi showed an unusual aptitude for physics from a very young age and.

advocatethis Although I'm just a year or so older than the girl in the song, I never thought of her as my peer. I didn't know much at 20, but I knew 60s and 70s popular music.
Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,780 · December 18, 2024
Cereal She was already nearly 40 when the song came out in 1980, at least by one way of reading it.
Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,780 · December 18, 2024
Gangis Khan Come to think of it, the pedophile cult those SS officers set up in Chile was called Colonia Dignidad
Thou shalt not question our platonic overlords · December 18, 2024
Jesse Riley Wrong, she's been an effective interrogator against trumper witnesses in front of her. That's what an Oversight Committee does.
Ugh · December 18, 2024
1Pokey4 I get the nasty feeling that the Proud Boys are going to make a comeback in a very big way.
Thou shalt not question our platonic overlords · December 18, 2024