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Jack Black’s mom was a NASA engineer —Judith Love Cohen helped create the Abort-Guidance System which rescued the Apollo 13 astronauts, went to work on the day she was in labor.

She took a printout of a problem she was working on to the hospital.

She called her boss, let him know she finished the problem and then gave birth to Jack Black.

Cohen worked as an electrical engineer on the Minuteman missile, the science ground station for the Hubble Space Telescope, the Tracking and Data Relay Satellite, and the Apollo Space Program.

According to her other son Neil, "My mother usually considered her work on the Apollo program to be the highlight of her career.”

When disaster struck the Apollo 13 mission, it was the Abort-Guidance System that brought the astronauts home safely.

Judy was there when the Apollo 13 astronauts paid a “thank you” to the TRW facility in Redondo Beach.

After her retirement as an engineer, she founded a children's multimedia publishing company, eventually publishing more than 20 titles before her death in 2016.

 

Three men can keep a secret, if two of them are dead.

 

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Ignorance is bliss.
https://www.the-sun.com/news/3125403/moment-great-white-shark-swallows-bird-whole/

 

What a knucklehead.

 

“lying flat.”
https://www.firstpost.com/world/chi...-and-beijing-isnt-happy-about-it-9777671.html

To lie flat means to forgo marriage, not have children, stay unemployed and eschew material wants such as a house or a car. It is the opposite of what China’s leaders have asked of their people. But that did not bother Leon Ding.
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Mentions of “lying flat” — tangping, as it is known in Mandarin — are heavily restricted on the Chinese internet. An official counternarrative has also emerged, encouraging young people to work hard for the sake of the country’s future.
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In May, China’s internet regulator ordered online platforms to “strictly restrict” new posts on tangping, according to a directive obtained by The New York Times. A second directive required e-commerce platforms to stop selling clothes, phone cases and other merchandise branded with “tangping.”

The state news media has called tangping “shameful,” and a newspaper warned against “lying flat before getting rich.” Yu Minhong, a prominent billionaire, urged young people not to lie down, because “otherwise, who can we rely on for the future of our country?”

 

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"Criminals always think they are smarter than anyone else, which makes them incredibly dumb."

 

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A college degree is not a guarantee for success.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/financ...masters-degrees-that-dont-pay-off-11625752773

Recent film program graduates of Columbia University who took out federal student loans had a median debt of $181,000.

Yet two years after earning their master’s degrees, half of the borrowers were making less than $30,000 a year.

The Columbia program offers the most extreme example of how elite universities in recent years have awarded thousands of master’s degrees that don’t provide graduates enough early career earnings to begin paying down their federal student loans, according to a Wall Street Journal analysis of Education Department data.

 

I learned today that math is racist. Apparently this has been a trend in California and Oregon for a while. It has made it to Ontario

https://torontosun.com/life/ontario...lum-preaches-subjective-nature-of-mathematics

Now, i love math. I had a hard time with it around the age of 6 or 7 as I could not get negative numbers. It is my favorite subject now as it is our universal language.

This is just really sad. Message to students here seems to be - we know you cannot learn it so we are not even going to try to teach you? When in reality everyone can, it just takes the right approach. And screaming racism is not it.

 

 

“Recent film program graduates of Columbia University who took out federal student loans had a median debt of $181,000.”

Yes, but Steven Spielberg went to Long. Beach state and his estimated net worth is now $7.63 billion.

The WSJ picked out an extreme example to make some kind of point. There are a lot of bad choices that can be made in life and going to grad school can be one of them. But this doesn’t prove to me that it’s always bad. This is getting close to the hatred of education that is being pedaled by the right wingers. I find it very sad

 

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What kind of shoes is he wearing? His feet are the color of happiness even before the overlap of expectations and reality!

 

 

"China Debut's worlds fastest Train"
https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/china-fastest-maglev-train-intl-hnk/index.html
Seems strange that since 1800's when the first Railway Pioneer, British inventor Richard Trevithick ran his first locomotive, I would have thought that now high speed rail would have been developed more in Britain and especially N.A. with more open spaces - longer distances for e.g. but for a country that did not go through an industrial revolution, China now seems to be leading!
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