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This article, by Miles Mathis, critiques a bbc trivia game that asked participants to name women featured on the cover of TIME magazine. The author, Miles Mathis, claims that most of the women on the list are unimpressive and can be dismissed by category, such as being famous through their husbands or fathers, or coming from the entertainment industry. He singles out Malala Yousafzai as a “completely manufactured person” and Amelia Earhart as a fraud. Virginia Woolf, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and Margaret Thatcher are among the few he considers potentially noteworthy, though he dismisses Margaret Thatcher as well.

The author then criticizes several prominent women mentioned or implied in the context of such lists: Sandra Day O’Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg for their perceived lack of notable actions on the Supreme Court, Indira Gandhi for her impact on India, and Hillary Clinton for her political career and perceived lack of accomplishment. He also discusses Frida Kahlo, acknowledging her art but criticizing her over-promotion due to connections and gender, suggesting Cecilia Beaux as a more deserving artist.

The article then delves into Virginia Woolf’s inclusion on the bbc shortlist, criticizing her for “modernizing” writing and her association with “stream of consciousness” writing, which the author links to James Augustine Aloysius Joyce and their perceived negative impact on literature. He also mentions Toni Morrison and William Faulkner in this context.

The author further examines the bbc’s explorer category, questioning Ernest Shackleton’s inclusion over Roald Amundsen, and dismisses Neil Armstrong as a fraud. He expresses a degree of like for Jane Goodall but questions her significance as a 20th-century figure, also critiquing Louis Leakey for his past actions and ties to British Intelligence in Kenya. Margaret Mead is also mentioned as someone surprisingly absent from the lists, despite her RAND Corporation ties and Jewish background, but her research is deemed fabricated.

In the scientist category, Alan Turing’s win over Albert Einstein, Marie Curie, and Tu Youyou is questioned. Tu Youyou’s Nobel Prize is attributed to dredging up ancient Chinese herbal medicines. Marie Curie’s contributions are downplayed, with credit for radioactivity given to Wilhelm Röntgen, Silvanus Thompson, and Henri Becquerel. The author argues that Pierre Curie has been unfairly erased from history to promote his wife, detailing his significant independent discoveries in 1880 and his foundational work. The author also presents evidence suggesting that photographs of Pierre Curie and Marie Curie together are fabricated.

Finally, the author offers his own list of significant 20th-century scientists, including Max Planck, Nikola Tesla, J. J. Thomson, Ernest Rutherford, Erwin Schrödinger, Linus Pauling, Wolfgang Pauli, Richard Feynman, Stephen Hawking, Paul Dirac, Niels Bohr, Werner Heisenberg, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Wernher von Braun, David Hilbert, and Sigmund Freud. He highlights Ernest Rutherford and Nikola Tesla as the most important, criticizing quantum mechanics as a field of “fake projects and treasury thefts.” He specifically praises Ernest Rutherford’s discoveries concerning the atom and nucleus.

As a concluding thought, the author draws a comparison between Kiernan Shipka and Emma Watson, noting their physical similarities, and offers his opinion on eyebrow aesthetics, using Frida Kahlo as an example of excess.

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This article, by Miles Mathis, critiques a bbc trivia game that asked participants to name women featured on the cover of TIME magazine. The author, Miles Mathis, claims that most of the women on the list are unimpressive and can be dismissed by category, such as being famous through their husbands or fathers, or coming from the entertainment industry. He singles out Malala Yousafzai as a “completely manufactured person” and Amelia Earhart as a fraud. Virginia Woolf, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and Margaret Thatcher are among the few he considers potentially noteworthy, though he dismisses Margaret Thatcher as well.

The author then criticizes several prominent women mentioned or implied in the context of such lists: Sandra Day O’Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg for their perceived lack of notable actions on the Supreme Court, Indira Gandhi for her impact on India, and Hillary Clinton for her political career and perceived lack of accomplishment. He also discusses Frida Kahlo, acknowledging her art but criticizing her over-promotion due to connections and gender, suggesting Cecilia Beaux as a more deserving artist.

The article then delves into Virginia Woolf’s inclusion on the bbc shortlist, criticizing her for “modernizing” writing and her association with “stream of consciousness” writing, which the author links to James Augustine Aloysius Joyce and their perceived negative impact on literature. He also mentions Toni Morrison and William Faulkner in this context.

The author further examines the bbc’s explorer category, questioning Ernest Shackleton’s inclusion over Roald Amundsen, and dismisses Neil Armstrong as a fraud. He expresses a degree of like for Jane Goodall but questions her significance as a 20th-century figure, also critiquing Louis Leakey for his past actions and ties to British Intelligence in Kenya. Margaret Mead is also mentioned as someone surprisingly absent from the lists, despite her RAND Corporation ties and Jewish background, but her research is deemed fabricated.

In the scientist category, Alan Turing’s win over Albert Einstein, Marie Curie, and Tu Youyou is questioned. Tu Youyou’s Nobel Prize is attributed to dredging up ancient Chinese herbal medicines. Marie Curie’s contributions are downplayed, with credit for radioactivity given to Wilhelm Röntgen, Silvanus Thompson, and Henri Becquerel. The author argues that Pierre Curie has been unfairly erased from history to promote his wife, detailing his significant independent discoveries in 1880 and his foundational work. The author also presents evidence suggesting that photographs of Pierre Curie and Marie Curie together are fabricated.

Finally, the author offers his own list of significant 20th-century scientists, including Max Planck, Nikola Tesla, J. J. Thomson, Ernest Rutherford, Erwin Schrödinger, Linus Pauling, Wolfgang Pauli, Richard Feynman, Stephen Hawking, Paul Dirac, Niels Bohr, Werner Heisenberg, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Wernher von Braun, David Hilbert, and Sigmund Freud. He highlights Ernest Rutherford and Nikola Tesla as the most important, criticizing quantum mechanics as a field of “fake projects and treasury thefts.” He specifically praises Ernest Rutherford’s discoveries concerning the atom and nucleus.

As a concluding thought, the author draws a comparison between Kiernan Shipka and Emma Watson, noting their physical similarities, and offers his opinion on eyebrow aesthetics, using Frida Kahlo as an example of excess.

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