June 2026
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Mary Fisher – A Whisper of AIDS, 1992
Fisher’s entire speech feels architected to make silence impossible. Before she utters a single word, a…
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Jane Goodall
The public speaker who has influenced me most is Jane Goodall. I will use her 2007…
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Failure Is Just an Experience
Throughout my undergrad and postgrad, I’ve had way more failures than successes. Some of them were…
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Meaning of Life
Dear Julia, When I read your message, I felt a kind of quiet understanding, like you…
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True Love
Dear Julia, I was developing my research agenda in the past few weeks, thinking about it…
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Talents & Loneliness; Purity & Chaos
On the Correlation Between Extreme Mathematical Talent and Mental Instability Disclaimer: These reflections are based solely…
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On Sofia Kovalevsky and Karl Weierstrass – Love… Love? Love is Love!
Sofia Kovalevsky (Source: Wikipedia) Karl Weierstrass (Source: Wikipedia) “Intelligence is the ultimate aphrodisiac.” — Timothy Leary…
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On Galileo Galilei
Source: Wikipedia My initial impression of Galileo was that he was an astronomer, a physicist, and…
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On Fermat – Conjectures vs. Proofs
Source: Wikipedia “I have discovered a truly remarkable proof which this margin is too small to…
I Know That I Know Nothing 