pendulum
Mon Sep 25 2000 at 5:07:48
Often used in scrying. Pendulums can be made of almost anything, often though a stone of some kind on the end of some cord. If they are attuned to the owner, they will answer yes or no questions. Not cosmic magic 8 balls, they will correctly answer, although sometimes they return a firm maybe, i don t know . A pendulum not properly attuned is useless; you can tell almost the moment you pick it up whether it will work for you or not. They respond differently to different people; mine circles clockwise for yes , counterclockwise for no, and jerks up and down or back and forth for maybe . I ve heard of pendulums that go north-south for yes and east-west, not circling just swinging; it varies. The best way to have a key is to ask it questions you know the answers to, a set of yes and a set of no, and from this pattern you should be able to discern the correct response.
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Chien-Shiung Wu was born in Liuhe, China, a town north of Shanghai, and emigrated to the United States in 1936. Robert W. Kelley/LIFE Picture Collection via Getty Images
Postage stamp to honor female physicist who many say should have won the Nobel Prize
Feb. 5, 2021 , 6:20 PM
A Chinese-American physicist whose name many people have never heard will soon share a rare honor typically bestowed on the field’s mononymous greats: Einstein, Fermi, Feynman. On 11 February, the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) will issue a stamp commemorating Chien-Shiung Wu, the service announced this week. In 1956, Wu proved, essentially, that the universe knows its right hand from its left.
Boyd received an undergraduate degree in mathematics and physics from Smith College, Northampton, Mass., in 1945. She received a doctoral degree in mathematics in 1949 from Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, where she studied under Einar Hille. She was the second African American woman to receive a doctorate in mathematics. From 1949 to 1950 she had a postdoctoral fellowship at New York University, and from 1950 to 1952 she was an associate professor of mathematics at Fisk University, Nashville, Tennessee.
In 1952 Boyd became a mathematician at the National Bureau of Standards (NBS) in Washington, D.C., where she worked on missile fuses. Her division of NBS was later absorbed by the United States Army and became the Diamond Ordnance Fuze Laboratories. There she became interested in the new field of computer programming, which led her to the corporation International Business Machines (IBM) in 1956. She worked on programs in the assembly language SOAP and later in FORTRAN for t
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In Paris. Exactly Seventy Years Ago.
He likely arrived in Paris from Darmstadt, Germany, by train that January, exactly seventy years ago. At 53, and a full professor of applied mathematics and the founding director of the Institut für Praktische Mathematik at the Technische Hochschule Darmstadt, Alwin Walther was among Germany’s leading figures in computation. The calculational prowess of Walther and his Institut–employing all manner of manual, mechanical, and electromechanical approaches–had attracted the attention, and the support, of the Nazi regime during the Second World War. But as Walther made his way to the academic heart of liberated Paris, the Latin Quarter, few passersby would have guessed at this background.