The idea that a female helped write Einstein’s papers has been growing in strength. It is a concept that some of the greatest minds today find hard to contemplate.

Recently, I read The Other Einstein by Marie Benedict and it made me think. I know the book is a novel and many parts are not factual. However, there was enough for me to research further.

Mileva Maric was the first wife of Albert Einstein. It is suggested she was a contributory writer for some of his biggest theories. Did Einstein plagiarise his wife’s work to reach success?

Who is Mileva Maric?

Maric was a Serbian physicist and mathematician. She was also the only woman at the Zurich Polytechnic, the same year as Einstein. She was only the fifth woman ever to be accepted to the Mathematics and Physics department. …

When I was about 8, I made a deal with my grandmother. Whatever money I put in my piggy bank would be matched by her. It was a pretty rad deal for me as a child. I was doubling every single dollar I made. I was always so excited to head to the bank after a few months to have them count out all the spare change. All I had to do was keep filling a pig with money.

Now, as I think about it, I am left with this question: why in the world do we put money in pigs? Where did the piggy bank originate? …

The press has been looking through the past for previous examples of what happened in the Capitol last week, partly to see if they can justify using the word “unprecedented.”

It depends on the sort of precedent one is looking for. Are we looking for times when a violent group forced their way into the building? If so, it may be technically correct that a mob has not stormed the Capitol since the War of 1812, but even then, it was in a time of war, and the mob was the enemy.

Are we looking at violence in the Capitol building? There are many examples of that, including the stick fight that almost killed Senator Charles Sumner in 1856. Are we looking for times where groups of unthinking people have tried to “tear down democracy”? We can find quite a few of those too. …

Together they saved Israel over 3000 years ago as recorded in the Book of Judges, a book in the Old Testament (Hebrew Bible).

Why Deborah is a badass

There are 12 judges written about in the Book of Judges, and Deborah is the only female. Judges were leaders and prophets that were regarded as being in contact with God. It turns out they did not write much about people in the 13th century BC, only for epic things.

Deborah was the leader of Israel in a time when women rarely held leadership roles.

Deborah held court under a palm tree where she settled disputes amongst her people. Her decisions were final and under a palm tree is a pretty cool place to have your office. …

As a teacher, I have heard multiple students and parents talk about Bell’s palsy and the potential to get facial paralysis on one side of the face from the COVID-19 vaccine. Before we move forward, it’s important to note there’s no evidence the COVID-19 vaccine causes Bell’s palsy, and in FDA trials of both the Moderna and Pfizer vaccines, the FDA said:

“The observed frequency of reported Bell’s palsy in the vaccine group is consistent with the expected background rate in the general population.”

Part of the misinformation stems from a viral video of an alleged registered nurse in Tennessee named Khalilah Mitchell, who says she got Bell’s palsy from the vaccine. Mitchell urges people not to take the vaccination. However, the Tennessee Department of Health said no registered nurse by that name was in the health professional licensure system. The Associated Press also says there is no link between Bell’s palsy and the COVID-19 vaccine. …

In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, the United States of America tops the chart of the world’s most infected country. With the threat of this deadly virus, members of the medical frontline are the most vulnerable. And in the U.S., wherein there are over 150,000 registered Filipino nurses, they are disproportionately hit hard by the coronavirus.

According to National Nurses United, as of August this year, there were 193 nurses in the U.S. that died because of COVID-19, and thirty percent of those were Filipinos.

With the large presence of the Filipino nurses in the U.S. hospitals, the question is, why? Catherin Ceniza Choy, a professor in ethics studies at the University of California, Berkeley, detailed the answers in her book, Empire of Care: Nursing and Migration in Filipino American History. …

The Eastern Front in 1916 echoed with artillery bombardments and troop offensives that resulted in massive casualties, especially for the Russians.

The ineptitude of leadership from the Imperial Russian Army made Russia’s vast superiority of numbers hardly an advantage. No example can better paint the picture than the disastrous Lake Naroch offensive, which kicked off on March 16th.

The lead up to 1916

Throughout 1914 and 1915, the western and eastern fronts’ allied powers had little coordination in their attacks. …

“Whatever his motivation, it is hard to escape the conclusion that the Pope, like so many others in positions of power and influence, could have done more to save the Jews,” — Mitchell Bard at the Jewish Virtual Library.

Pope Pius XII guided the Catholic Church through the Holocaust, and as his legacy goes now, according to Theresa Machemer at Smithsonian Magazine, he was silent on the extermination of Jews and others killed by Hitler and the Nazis. To his critics, Pope Pius XII failed to publicly condemn the Holocaust, and is widely seen as a powerful man who did nothing to help Jews, and sometimes even an anti-Semite. …