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oakfarmI am in the stage of life when I’m so bored I care my houseplants to death, just to have something to do. Let’s update some more. So some years ago my old high school changed its name. It’s now named after a lesbian artist who was art teacher there (Maja Beskow, 1877-1964). Is the name change because of identity policy? Or is it because of identity policy I don’t know anything about her beside that she was a lesbian artist? It could be more interesting that she was a teacher in what was then a boys school, in a time when women weren't allowed to teach at male high schools. She had to search for dispensation from the king, to teach boys. If that's sounds fishy, my source here is wikipedia.
Unrelated. I like Frances Arnold since she was one of very few Nobel prize winners I know about before they got the prize. Last year I of course know about Emmanuelle Charpentier, since she worked here, and I had some idea that Roger Penrose might be one of those who think the brain could be a quantum computer? Anyway, he wrote the book name The Emperor's new mind. That's easy to remember. But that wasn’t why he got the prize and what I was going to write wat that apparently Frances Arnold now is cochairing the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST). Cool.
Unrelated. I like Frances Arnold since she was one of very few Nobel prize winners I know about before they got the prize. Last year I of course know about Emmanuelle Charpentier, since she worked here, and I had some idea that Roger Penrose might be one of those who think the brain could be a quantum computer? Anyway, he wrote the book name The Emperor's new mind. That's easy to remember. But that wasn’t why he got the prize and what I was going to write wat that apparently Frances Arnold now is cochairing the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST). Cool.
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