Absolutely, assuming the 30 mil number is right. Have to remember that the numbers will only go down day after day since the virus is becoming part of normality.
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Absolutely, assuming the 30 mil number is right. Have to remember that the numbers will only go down day after day since the virus is becoming part of normality.
I am reminded of another kid who said "School is a waste of time", Linus Pauling.
Pauling quit attending his Oregon high school in his senior year in protest over "having to learn useless things." As a result, he failed to meet the requirements for graduation. Years later, after he had been awarded two Nobel prizes, the only person to win two unshared prizes, his high school graciously invited him to attend their commencement ceremony where he was awarded an honorary high school diploma.
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Really, I never heard of this story. Any sources?
I'm being shit on for not googling it but I couldn't find the specific story.
I read it years ago in one of the many biographical sketches. Most likely C&E News. Just google it. Here is a picture of him proudly showing it off. Don't let it give you any wrong ideas about the value of an education. Pauling spent the rest of his lifetime teaching. In fact he met his wife, who deserved to share his second nobel, while teaching as an undergraduate student at what was then Oregon Agricultural (was it College?) -- anyway that became Oregon State.
Here he is proudly showing off his diploma. You should know by now I don't post stuff that's not verifiable or that I don't label in some way questionable if it is not verifiable . If I have any doubt I'll use weasel words like, "if true" etc. I don't take something that Jackass Trump or Jackass Hannity or Jackass Alex Jones or Jackass Limbaugh has said and paste it all over the internet like it is actually true (or, for that matter, something I read on those Screwball sites like ZH or Fox News or Breitbart.
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No problem. Trying is good enough. I'll find it for you. Give me just a moment.
here it is http://scarc.library.oregonstate.edu/coll/pauling/awards/1962h.2.html
It's Oregon State that has his papers now I believe, And I think that's where they have moved, more or less, the Institute he stated for the study of human health and nutrition (and other things?) Pauling was one of those guys interested in everything. He had an amazing memory! I was lucky enough to hear him speak on two separate occasions.
The part about his childish protest over having to learn useless things is going to be harder to find. But it to is out there. Maybe it came from his parents. But we can no longer ask them.
https://paulingblog.wordpress.com/2009/06/23/a-prominent-high-school-dropout/
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