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From: Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org>
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Subject: Re: The Einstein Effect
Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2025 14:48:55 +1100
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On 7/01/2025 11:48 am, john larkin wrote:
> On Mon, 6 Jan 2025 22:17:20 -0000 (UTC), Cursitor Doom
> <cd999666@notformail.com> wrote:
> 
>> On Mon, 06 Jan 2025 07:36:05 -0800, john larkin wrote:
>>
>>> https://www.inc.com/jessica-stillman/einstein-and-adam-grant-agree-the-
>> puzzle-principle-will-make-you-instantly-smarter/91102339
>>>
>>> Cohen's book looks interesting, so I ordered it.
>>>
>>> I'm now reading Gleick's short biography of Isaac Newton, who was a very
>>> weird guy.
>>
>> Not just weird but deeply unpleasant.
> 
> Which explains why he never had a girlfriend.

But he did have a close relationship with the male Swiss mathematician 
Nicolas Fatio De Duillier, and was distressed for quite while after it 
ended.

Nicolas Fatio De Duillier has come up here before - he seems to have 
been the first person to come up with what is now known as the Le Sage 
theory of gravity (which can't be made to work but Jan Panteltje likes).

-- 
Bill Sloman, Sydney