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of dorm rooms for decades. Kurt Vonnegut called it “a miracle of compressed intelligence nearly as admirable for potent simplicity, in my opinion, as Einstein's e=mc?.” Lh ft COMMUNISM! ADDITIONAL COPIES AVAILABLE FROM THE MOTHERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION, WASHINGTON, D.C. Ww HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_023642 -
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_023642 →: He said, “Hey, that’s a great t-shirt!” He took it literally! EP: | know the poster was said to be the perfect confluence of two banned terms. PK: Kurt Vonnegut praised it for that. EP: “Fuck” has kind of won, right? You can say “Fuck” anything now, and it’s fine. That is one experience I don’t have, growing
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_023642 →ters to have guns in court. EP: Was this for the Harvey Milk trial? PK: Yeah. EP: During that trial, you
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_023643 →associations of Finnegans Wake.) Bertrand Russell, a philosopher whose work I admired, had multiple family members who suffered from schizophrenia. Einstein had a son with schizophrenia, and he himself displayed some of the social and interpersonal ineptitudes that can characterize the illness. Based on
chievements have been the result of convergent thinking—a process that led to Newton's recognition of the physical formulae underlying gravity, and Einstein's recognition that E=mc2. A second approach to defining creativity is the "duck test": if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it must be
hiatrist and neuroscientist who studies creativity, I've had the pleasure of working with many gifted and high-profile subjects over the years, but Kurt Vonnegut—dear, funny, eccentric, lovable, tormented Kurt Vonnegut—will always be one of my favorites. Kurt was a faculty member at the Iowa Writers' Worksho
is a science historian, Joseph Pellegrino University Professor and co- founder of the Black Hole Initiative at Harvard University, and the author of Einstein's Clocks and Poincaré’s Maps: Empires of Time. In his second-best book, the great medieval mathematician al-Khwarizmi described the new place-based
er they go, and if them, then why not everyone? If we all have those tools to some extent, shouldn’t we all be able to benefit? These scenarios echo Kurt Vonnegut’s 1961 short story “Harrison Bergeron,” in which exceptional aptitude is suppressed in deference to the mediocre lowest common denominator of society
is a science historian, Joseph Pellegrino University Professor and co- founder of the Black Hole Initiative at Harvard University, and the author of Einstein's Clocks and Poincaré’s Maps: Empires of Time. In his second-best book, the great medieval mathematician al-Khwarizmi described the new place-based
er they go, and if them, then why not everyone? If we all have those tools to some extent, shouldn’t we all be able to benefit? These scenarios echo Kurt Vonnegut’s 1961 short story “Harrison Bergeron,” in which exceptional aptitude is suppressed in deference to the mediocre lowest common denominator of society
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