And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Monday, June 7, 2021
More scientific brainpower in this picture than ever before or since.
Back in the early 1990's, I stayed at the hotel where this conference was held - in Brussels - called the Hotel Metropole. Really cool old hotel with two story marble columns and a brass caged elevator. This picture was in the lobby, and the science nerd in me was pretty awestruck for the reason that Benji just mentioned. Damned august group whose scientific contributions are the foundations of much of the modern technology we all enjoy. Then I got brought back to reality by my colleague running up to say his passport had just been stolen by a pack of gypsies who accosted him in a revolving door! Memorable place in more ways than one.
Where are the women? :D
ReplyDeleteExactly where they should be. Cooking dinner and doing laundry at home with the kids.
DeleteMore to the point: where's the cat?
DeleteFront row, third from the left.
Deletenow I see her - apparently her inner glow is still developing
DeleteCorrection: "Where da white women at?"
DeleteMadame Curie recipient of TWO Nobel prizes.
DeleteContrast seems to be off on this black & White photo.
ReplyDeleteCould be just my eyes...
Uhhhhh, i'D fit rite in dat gangg......
ReplyDelete17 of the 29 were or became Nobel prize winners. Not too shabby.
ReplyDeleteBack in the early 1990's, I stayed at the hotel where this conference was held - in Brussels - called the Hotel Metropole. Really cool old hotel with two story marble columns and a brass caged elevator. This picture was in the lobby, and the science nerd in me was pretty awestruck for the reason that Benji just mentioned. Damned august group whose scientific contributions are the foundations of much of the modern technology we all enjoy. Then I got brought back to reality by my colleague running up to say his passport had just been stolen by a pack of gypsies who accosted him in a revolving door! Memorable place in more ways than one.
ReplyDeleteEvery one of them obviously devoid of foresight. Lowbrows.
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