my brain to a supercomputer—it didn’t matter. My little baby had some serious birth defects. The question then became, How do I free myself from this Frankenstein while making it self-sustaining? How do I pry myself from the tentacles of workaholism and the fear that it would fall to pieces without my 15-hour d

little mistake changed my life, and | will always be grateful for what | feel must have been a touch of divine intervention. We created a couple of Frankenstein monsters, and when | say we, | mean the administration and the media in an unintentional collaboration. One such monster was Martha Mitchell. The fi

John”, he continued, Iam a phony. But John, Iam a real phony!” The next day I gave my lecture, entitled "Einstein, Gertrude Stein, Wittgenstein, and Frankenstein." Einstein: the revolution in 20" century physics; Gertrude Stein: the first writer who made integral to her work the idea of an indeterminate and di

John”, he continued, Iam a phony. But John, Iam a real phony!” The next day I gave my lecture, entitled "Einstein, Gertrude Stein, Wittgenstein, and Frankenstein." Einstein: the revolution in 20" century physics; Gertrude Stein: the first writer who made integral to her work the idea of an indeterminate and di

E BREAK --- People leave more behind them than a name. Like her fictional protagonist Victor Frankenstein, Mary Shelley is survived by her creation: Frankenstein took on a life of his own within our collective imagination (Figure $15). Such legacies, and all the many other ways in which people achieve cultural

was pissed off that Trump hadn’t called Beth. “Mueller,” he concluded, drawing deeply on an electronic cigarette, had distracted him. Trump may be a Frankenstein creation, but he was the right wing’s creation, the first, true, right-wing original. Hannity could look past the Comey disaster. And Jared. And the

sm. The answer is what we saw right after the inaugura- tion, with the march and the rallies. Trump is essentially the monster we’ve created. Whereas Frankenstein was made from corpses, Trump was made from fringe subcultures: First send them, and they didn’t find any “evidence,” then he lied by omission...of f

e extent, they succeeded. The carefully controlled use of infinity is the secret to calculus, the source of its enormous predictive power. "But like Frankenstein’s monster or the golem in Jewish folklore, infinity was never quite under control. As in any tale of hubris, the monster inevitably turned on its cre