The morning coffee, the mathematician and the nutcracker
During the second world war, Alan Turing played a key part in breaking the German’s enigma code and laid the foundations on which computer science was built. The computer that you’re reading this on? Turing’s fault. The algorithm? Turing’s idea. The fact that Germany did not wipe out the UK during World War II? Turing’s work.
Because of all this, nobody cared that Turing was homosexual … until the war was over. Turing was arrested for gross indecency, chemically castrated, and eventually killed himself. There is now a campaign requesting that the UK government make an official apology for the prejudices that ended his career and his life.
The image of the day is not behaving itself. Instead of posting it here, I merely link to it. It’s funny. You’ll like it.
Does the ubiquity of mobile phone cameras, together with “social” websites help to make us more honest?
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