Astral Codex Ten

Marie Curie

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Marie Curie

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Marie Curie is a recurring person in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between November 09, 2021 and August 18, 2022. The archive places it in contexts such as “Marie and Pierre Curie discovered radioactivity”; “Marie Curie’s daughter marrying a Nobel Peace Prize laureate”; “Marie Curie, on the other hand, was a real Tiger Mom”. It most often appears alongside 9-11, Aage Bohr, Abanindranath Tagore.

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  • Category: People
  • Mention count: 2
  • Issue count: 2
  • First seen: November 09, 2021
  • Last seen: August 18, 2022

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Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.

Secrets Of The Great Families
November 09, 2021 · Original source
When the Darwins weren’t marrying each other, they were marrying others of their same intellectual caliber. There is at least one Darwin-Huxley marriage: that would be George Pember Darwin (a computer scientist, Charles’ great-grandson) and Angela Huxley (Thomas’ great-granddaughter) in 1964. But also, Margaret Darwin (Charles’ granddaughter) married Geoffrey Keynes (John Maynard Keynes’ brother, and himself no slacker - he pioneered blood transfusion in Britain). And John Maynard and Geoffrey’s sister, Margaret Keynes, married Archibald Hill, who won the Nobel Prize in Medicine. And let’s not forget Marie Curie’s daughter marrying a Nobel Peace Prize laureate.
Marie Curie, on the other hand, was a real Tiger Mom:
Skills Plateau Because Of Decay And Interference
August 18, 2022 · Original source
What about mnemonic devices? In the Dominic System, you remember long numbers by associating each digit with a letter - for example, 1 is always A, 2 is always B, and so on. 314159 becomes CADAEI. Then you convert it to people with initials - Chester Arthur, a District Attorney, Elizabeth I (I never claimed to be good at initial → people conversion). Then you form subject-verb-object sentences, treating the middle person as an action, ie “Chester Arthur prosecutes Elizabeth I”. Presumably the image of Chester Arthur suing Elizabeth I is easier to remember than the digits 314159, and if you forget the digits then you can unpack the sentence until you get them again. Does this work because there are fewer things similar to this image, to interfere with it? Actually, does it work at all? If you remember that, and then you remember some other number with the image of Chuck Norris shooting a rocket at Marie Curie, at some point do you start forgetting whether it was Chuck Norris or Elizabeth I who was shooting the rocket?
Inline links: Dominic System