
The Man from the Future: The Visionary Life of John von Neumann (Ananyo Bhattacharya)
The Worthy House (Charles Haywood)
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Why Women Can Be Top Scientists
The idea that women can be top scientists who have much desire to focus on the hard sciences at all, is extremely damaging to our society. You certainly don't see it in china, which is focused on winning the future, not paintering to the emotionally needy. For example, at my son's high school, winners of a large scholarship for computer programming were announced with great fanfare, all girls. No doubt there are very rarely women scientists of the second rank, though none of the first rank,. But that does not justify the resources put into pampering them and the harms done to young men.
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