Today I learned +

[Reynard]

TIL that Heddi Lamar was an inventor who helped develop the system that powers both torpedoes and bluetooth.

 

[Aeson]

TIL that Heddi Lamar was an inventor who helped develop the system that powers both torpedoes and bluetooth.

She wasn't just a pretty face. Attractive people are often underestimated, especially women, who tend to be underestimated in general.
I saw a video on YouTube from a woman named Rachel Pizzolato. She's a model/actress, but she's also an inventor and was a Junior Mythbuster. She's studying aeronautic engineering and has two patents pending. She very much sounds like a modern day Heddi Lamar.

Rachel Pizzolato

Want to feel empowered and encouraged in your journey to reach for the golden ring? I make videos that capture the essence of how hard work and persistence can allow anyone to reach their goals and live their dreams! My name is Rachel Pizzolato, and I want you to be a part of this fantastic...

youtube.com

 

[trappedslider]

TIL
In May 2021, Italian artist Salvatore Garau sold an “immaterial” sculpture titled Io Sono (I Am) for €15,000 ($18,300) at the Italian auction house Art-Rite; the buyer received a certificate and display instructions for an empty 5×5 ft space.

 

[Jeremy E Grenemyer]

Today I encountered a new word: belletristic

Writing that is artistic, with an aesthetic readers enjoy and return to for that alone.

 

[trappedslider]

Today I encountered a new word: belletristic

Writing that is artistic, with an aesthetic readers enjoy and return to for that alone.

today i learned that my writing will never be belletristic

 

[Aeson]

today i learned that my writing will never be belletristic

It could be ballistic if you throw it hard enough at someone.

 

[Cadence]

One of our local private schools is named for someone truly awful (even after accounting for why the school was founded).

Hammond School (South Carolina) - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[Ruin Explorer]

One of our local private schools is named for someone truly awful (even after accounting for why the school was founded).

Hammond School (South Carolina) - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Wooooooooooowwwww there's named after someone controversial or dodgy or with allegations around them, and then there's named after a guy primarily famous for being not only insanely pro-slavery (even by the standards of the time he was regarded a "radical" on slavery) but also a self-admitted brutal serial rapist/serial incestuous pedophile - not even "only" of his slaves, he didn't stop there, he went directly to his young relatives! Goddamn. It's not even "allegations" either! He wrote it down in his OWN GODDAMN DIARIES, and blamed all the victims of course for "seducing" him!

I cannot imagine the mindset it must take to send kids there. Like, the article on it says a Black basketball player sent his kids there and people were racist to them, and it's like, you sent your kids to racist pedophile academy (which was founded EXPLICITLY to exclude Black people!!!) why exactly?!

I feel like I'm losing my mind here.

 

[MoonSong]

One of our local private schools is named for someone truly awful (even after accounting for why the school was founded).

Hammond School (South Carolina) - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

They should change the first name to George and the middle one to S.

 

[MoonSong]

I cannot imagine the mindset it must take to send kids there. Like, the article on it says a Black basketball player sent his kids there and people were racist to them, and it's like, you sent your kids to racist pedophile academy (which was founded EXPLICITLY to exclude Black people!!!) why exactly?!

I feel like I'm losing my mind here.

Some people are shielded from the worst of discrimination and don't expect to face it. More so since it seems the school had been having pro-inclusion drives and actively recruiting non-white students for at least 30 years. I can see a naive pro athlete thinking it couldn't be that bad for a school that had good academics and good athletic results.