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I loathe his politics. But I admire absolutely his personal integrity, every moment of his life, through (and beyond?) now. We need more like him.

My undergraduate thesis advisor at Jale. A great soul and intellect. RIP. J.D. McClatchy, Poet of the Body, in Sickness and Health, Dies at 72

All of them!

I go egotistically on and on and on about who influenced me to become myself... ...but, in truth, it was just: ...my parents, who read to me from, Grimm's Fairy Tales or some other such source, every night when I was very young, ...Captain Kangaroo! ...and Fred Rogers. P.S. Plus Dr Smith and all the rest of the trashy science friction TV that I and my parents loved there across the '60s! To repeat oneself...

Beautiful... Mister Rogers, television's polite radical https://www-m.cnn.com/2018/06/08/health/mister-rogers-go-ask-your-dad/index.html

Hang in. Have seen 3 therapy routes (from helping my 89yo mama negotiate severe spinal stenosis et al.) that do give great relief. Your pain clinic should be able to direct you to each: - Acupuncture & related holistic methods. From a credentialed East/West doctor; NOT the quacks in the shopping mall obviously. - Biofeedback. - Self-hypnosis. All are tested medical methods that work, far better than opioids.

Cue Linda Blair...! https://goo.gl/images/yRJzlw

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1999/04/19/dont-eat-before-reading-this

My undergraduate senior-thesis advisor. Yet, alas, another loss. Here, in my late 50s, of my then-heroes. He was nothing but supportive & encouraging of my undergraduate intellectual enthusiasms. Of my wildest ideas. Knowing he is now gone from the scene... https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/11/obituaries/jd-mcclatchy-poet-of-the-body-in-sickness-and-health-dies-at-72.html

@Larstrup, all your presence here is radiantly beautiful. This one so most especially.

I don't know. I had a cousin so deep-sunk into depression from life-collapse causes, and then on into later-life brain-chemical-dysfunction stuff, that a bottle of 40 pills at age 62 seemed to him the only way out. I cannot condemn his decision. [I myself could never ever do that. As said many times here before, I plan to live forever. Irritating the bastards all the way! But I cannot disrespect the intensely private decisions of others to take a different way.]

As the linked article notes, he is 15 in these pics.

I'm 58, likewise on Lisinopril. Was fairly sedentary until two years ago, when (just to think and figure out business problems) after lunch I abandoned the desk and went outdoors walking for 3+ hours. The jizz flow is now abundant again! Just getting the cardio system back into full function worked for me.

LMAO https://laraparkersite.blogspot.com/2014/07/hysterical-and-very-embarrassing.html?m=1

Her own site, just now discovered... https://laraparkersite.blogspot.com

Feynman's PhD thesis... https://cds.cern.ch/record/101498/files/Thesis-1942-Feynman.pdf

One and one's family visited the site, me age ten, 1969 . Inspiring beyond belief.

I take back every last one of my words here in defense of DJT. Trump is not stupid. He is psychotic.

I understand all that Trump undermines.But I think the Framers, in their mortally perilous situation at the time, looked back across well more than 2000 years of civic governance -- or misgovernance - and foresaw all that potential for gross abuse by unbridled power, and therefore laid down very solid planks against it, in the Constitution. AND THEN -- in a move of inadvertent genius only seen & understood by Madison, some 20 years later -- realized that the OPEN-ENDED STRUGGLE OF SEPARATION OF POWERS had the US invented a truly new construct of government.

@Larstrup My infinitely wise next-door neighbor in Cambridge, MA, the [third] wife of this very brilliant & influential person: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Kistiakowsky#Later_life

Look. You know that I make my Miltonic pronunciumentos out of the same id-ic [Freud] stuff that he [Milton, not Freud ] did himself. So vhat?

John Archibald Wheeler From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigationJump to search John Archibald Wheeler John Archibald Wheeler before the Hermann Weyl-Conference 1985 in Kiel, Germany Born July 9, 1911 Jacksonville, Florida, United States Died April 13, 2008 (aged 96) Hightstown, New Jersey, United States Residence United States Nationality American Alma mater Johns Hopkins University (Ph.D.) Known for Breit–Wheeler process Wheeler–DeWitt equation Popularizing the term "black hole" Nuclear fission Geometrodynamics General relativity Unified field theory Wheeler–Feynman absorber theory Wheeler's delayed choice experiment One-electron universe Geon S-matrix Quantum foam Coining the term "neutron moderator" Coining the term "superspace" Coining the term "wormhole" Lorentzian wormhole "It from bit" Participatory anthropic principle Spouse(s) Janette Hegner Awards Albert Einstein Award (1965) Enrico Fermi Award (1968) Franklin Medal (1969) National Medal of Science (1970) Oersted Medal (1983) J. Robert Oppenheimer Memorial Prize (1984) Albert Einstein Medal (1988) Matteucci Medal (1993) Wolf Prize in Physics (1997) Einstein Prize (APS) (2003) Scientific career Fields Physics Institutions University of North Carolina Princeton University University of Texas at Austin Thesis Theory of the dispersion and absorption of helium (1933) Doctoral advisor Karl Herzfeld Doctoral students Jacob Bekenstein Claudio Bunster Demetrios Christodoulou Ignazio Ciufolini Hugh Everett Richard Feynman Kenneth W. Ford Robert Geroch John R. Klauder Bahram Mashhoon Charles Misner Milton Plesset Benjamin Schumacher Kip Thorne Jayme Tiomno Bill Unruh Robert Wald Katharine Way Arthur Wightman John Archibald Wheeler (July 9, 1911 – April 13, 2008) was an American theoretical physicist. He was largely responsible for reviving interest in general relativity in the United States after World War II. Wheeler also worked with Niels Bohr in explaining the basic principles behind nuclear fission. Together with Gregory Breit, Wheeler developed the concept of the Breit–Wheeler process. He is best known for linking the term "black hole" to objects with gravitational collapse already predicted early in the 20th century, for coining the terms "quantum foam", "neutron moderator", "wormhole" and "it from bit", and for hypothesizing the "one-electron universe". Wheeler earned his doctorate at Johns Hopkins University under the supervision of Karl Herzfeld, and studied under Breit and Bohr on a National Research Council fellowship. In 1939 he teamed up with Bohr to write a series of papers using the liquid drop model to explain the mechanism of fission. During World War II, he worked with the Manhattan Project's Metallurgical Laboratory in Chicago, where he helped design nuclear reactors, and then at the Hanford Site in Richland, Washington, where he helped DuPont build them. He returned to Princeton after the war ended, but returned to government service to help design and build the hydrogen bomb in the early 1950s. For most of his career, Wheeler was a professor at Princeton University, which he joined in 1938, remaining until his retirement in 1976. At Princeton he supervised 46 PhDs, more than any other professor in the Princeton physics department. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Archibald_Wheeler