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Malcolm Hopper. He's brilliant. A scientist? A scientist. Jehovah's Witness. He was probably one of the German scientists brought here from Germany after World War II. One of the rocket scientists. Not a Nazi but being pressured by them and being freed really to come here. And he developed the turbo jet and the government used it on war planes
... See moreA quixotic intellectual troubadour, he has prosecuted a series of discrete visions united only by a potent sense of curiosity and a provocative optimism.
John Markoff • Whole Earth: The Many Lives of Stewart Brand
Lindbergh, seeing the devastation of Europe after the German surrender, felt only revulsion for the whole of science and technology, especially aviation. The man who had been its greatest hero longed now to renounce his profession and live with nature. This was in the spring of 1945, before Hiroshima.
David McCullough • Brave Companions
presidency by halting the vote count in Florida. One reason the election was so close was that mass incarceration had already removed four million Americans from the voter rolls, including more than one in five Black men in Florida (and felonies in Florida were a very expansive category). Without the associated disenfranchisement, Gore would have
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The initial objective, quite simply, is the creation of the sleepless soldier, and the white-crowned sparrow study project is only one small part of a broader military effort to achieve at least limited mastery over human sleep.
Jonathan Crary • 24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep
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