Marie Curie was also denied a seat on the French Academy of Sciences in 1911. She responded to this by diving into her work and earning her second Nobel Prize a year later for her work with radioactivity. (There is a measurement of the effects of radiation named after her, the Curie, abbreviated Ci.) Go to this source for a full article about this story.
By the way, I don't understand any of this, but the song is wicked awesome. Some day perhaps I'll have a handle on Physics, but it is not this day. Please share this video, it's great and I hope it goes viral!
Today is a very special day for two reasons - Albert Einstein, and Pi!
Albert Einstein was born on March 14, 1879.
And today's date is the first three digits of Pi - 3.14 which are pretty much the only digits the typical person knows. Pi is an irrational number, so the digits are infinite and non-repeating.
The best Pi ever... today I'm going to listen to this song, eat a piece of pie, and solve the area of a circle all at the same time. ;)
My favorite Einstein quotes: "The problems that exist in the world today cannot be solved by the level of thinking that created them." "Whoever undertakes to set himself up as judge in the field of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods." "The only source of knowledge is experience." "It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer." "If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?"
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