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People leave more behind them than a name. Like her fictional protagonist Victor Frankenstein, Mary Shelley is survived by her creation: Frankenstein took on a life of his own within our collective imagination (Figure $15). Such legacies, and all the many other ways in which peop...

…ny. But John, I am a real phony!” The next day I gave my lecture, entitled "Einstein, Gertrude Stein, Wittgenstein, and Frankenstein." Einstein: the revolution in 20 th century physics; Gertrude Stein: the first writer who made integral to her work the idea of an indeterminate an...

Figure $15 1e-6 — Mary Shelley — Frankenstein Frequency “1800 1850 1900 1950 2000 Year Fig. S15. Many routes to Immortality. People leave more behind them than their name: ‘Mary Shelley’ (blue) created the monstrously famous ‘Frankenstein’ (green). HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_017054

…will always be grateful for what I feel must have been a touch of divine intervention. * * * We created a couple of Frankenstein monsters, and when I say we, I mean the administration and the media in an unintentional collaboration. One such monster was Martha Mitchell. The f...

How do I free myself from this Frankenstein while making it self-sustaining? How do I pry

…right after the inaugura- tion, with the march and the rallies. Trump is essentially the monster we’ve created. Whereas Frankenstein was made from corpses, Trump was made from fringe subcultures: First send them, and they didn’t find any “evidence,” then he lied by omission...of...

… buzz. Producer/director Danny Boyle (Oscar winner for Slumdog Millionaire) stays in London all fall directing the play Frankenstein. Black Swan also unspools there in a tiny theater as Madonna, Alec Baldwin and Harvey Weinstein slip in the back. Darren Aronofsky is hailed a geni...

… carefully controlled use of infinity is the secret to calculus, the source of its enormous predictive power. "But like Frankenstein's monster or the golem in Jewish folklore, infinity was never quite under control. As in any tale of hubris, the monster inevitably turned on its c...

… didn’t matter. My little baby had some serious birth defects. The question then became, How do I free myself from this Frankenstein while making it self-sustaining? How do I pry myself from the tentacles of workaholism and the fear that it would fall to pieces without my 15-hour...

…oped for therapeutic applications are created by combining extracts from multiple cannabis strains, a process known as “Frankensteining.” Some believe Frankenstein formulations are less effective than formulations developed from a single strain because the natural balance of comp...

…’t called Beth. “Mueller,” he concluded, drawing deeply on an electronic cigarette, had distracted him. Trump may be a Frankenstein creation, but he was the right wing’s creation, the first, true, right-wing original. Hannity could look past the Comey disaster. And Jared. And th...

… General Intelligence 97 One possible negative reaction to the integrative diagram might be to say that it’s a kind of Frankenstein monster diagram, piecing together aspects of different theories in a way that violates the theoretical notions underlying all of them! For example,...

…, technophobic, or morbidly fascinated audience.” Hence, over the centuries: Pandora, Faust, the Sorcerer’s Apprentice, Frankenstein, the population bomb, resource depletion, HAL, suitcase nukes, the Y2K bug, and engulfment by nanotechnological grey goo. “A characteristic of AI d...