Laura’s Reviews > The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements > Status Update
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On the career path of one awesome lady physicist and nobel-laureate: "Most schools tolerated [Maria]Goeppert-Mayer's hanging around to chat science. Some even condescended to give her work, though they refused to pay her... After World War II, the University of Chicago finally took her seriously enough to make her a professor of physics. Although she got her own office, the department still didn't pay her." Assholes!
— Nov 17, 2011 04:08PM
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Jupiter is " a 'tweener: not a large planet so much as a failed star. Had Jupiter sucked up about ten times more detritus... It would have graduated to a brown dwarf, a star with just enough brute mass to fuse some atoms together and give off a low-watt, brownish light." Mind: blown.
— Nov 18, 2011 06:07AM
