Nina's Blog - Friday 18th November 2022

Nina's Blog - Friday 18th November 2022, 10:14

Listening to Desert Island Discs, Richard Burton reading the prologue to Under Milk Wood.

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ArishMell · 70-79, M

Indeed! I have the same programme on now - playing Flanders & Swan's Hippopatamus Song.

Very interesting guest, the epidemiologist Prof. Jean Golding.

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ArishMell · 70-79, M

@ninalanyon Indeed, then the problems of trying to make professional headway against men who thought work like that a man's world.

Intrigued to hear that her first statistical work was better without the computers not yet available, using punched cards instead.

You seem surprised about her being "Cornish too". Errr, why?

ninalanyon · 61-69, T

@ArishMell Not surprised, just pleased. I'm Cornish on my mother's side.

ArishMell · 70-79, M

@ninalanyon Ah! I see!

ninalanyon · 61-69, T

Friday 18th November 2022, 12:03

Bugger! Fred Brooks has died.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33649390

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