I agree with you all that the war would have been prolonged slightly longer, but how about the development of the computer? After all, Alan Turning's 'enigma decoding machine' was the very first computer. If the war was won without ever decoding Enigma, what do you think this would mean for the...
You are absolutely correct. Although I think A Brief History of Time would have been an amazing accomplishment for even a well-bodies physicists. But when it comes to the general infatuation with Hawking, it is inseperable from his accomplishments WITH his disease, as you said.
I think aside from being draining, like you mentioned, ALS differs from other diseases because it effects the nervous system, but mental capacity remains very functional.
Neverthelss, I think emotional distress and sheer frustration would cause me to be unproductive under the same...
It goes without saying that Hawkin has accomplished many brilliant things and that his scientific acheivements changed the world as we know it, or at least as we perceive it. I can't help but wonder, however, what else he would have achieved so far if he didn't suffer from ALS?
I want to...
There was movement North because of racism, for sure. Even in the North though there was racism, even seemingly outside of the reach Jim Crow. A lot of Harlem Renaissance artists moved over to Europe around the 1930's to escape the persistent racism and inequality. Which is interesting in...
I sometimes wonder how much longer it would have taken for the Civil Rights Act in the U.S. to be legislated had the Harlem Renaissance never occurred. I think without the work of Jean Toomer, Langston Hughes, Nella Larsen, Zora Neale Hurston, and Claude McKay, among many others, this movement...