My vacuum died and instead of crying because I can’t afford a new one I took the whole thing completely apart with a screwdriver, took out approximately 500lbs of dog hair, and put it back together. Now it sucks so hard I almost can’t push it across my carpet.

Reminder: Nobel awards are only given to the living. We’ll return to that…

She wasn’t just not credited, her role was actively minimized. Her incredibly quality work (she was one of the best crystallographers in the world– a technique that is HARD AS BALLS and I’m an electron microscopist saying that) was passed around like ‘nbd, hey have you bros seen Rosie’s stuff?’ like it wasn’t ever hers. Then they publish, write a book (where she was minimized and mocked) and they do interviews where they do the same.

She went on to characterize the tobacco mosaic virus and was very well respected, though had none of the glory. She did get cancer, though, quite possibly due to such high exposure to radiation. In 1958.

Ther Nobel was awarded in 1962. So the work that won these guys (I’m not even going into details about them personally) a Nobel quite possibly killed her.

A sword that inflicts emotional wounds

A hat that, when left alone with another hat, will mate and produce hybrid offspring

Negative gold pieces

A map that is the territory

Armour that becomes more effective the uglier the wearer

A living pocket-watch that never needs winding, but if you don’t feed it, it dies; it’s an obligate carnivore

Goggles that put censor bars over monsters of the Aberration type

An instructional tome in the secret language of ducks

A dagger that glows in the presence of one particular goblin

Anyway, the next night we watched a thing about some pig man who is supposed to live in Vermont. People said it had claws and a pig nose but walked upright like a man. Now, I happen to know that sideshows used to shave bears and present them as pig men. So every piece of evidence they gave of this monster sounds to me like a bear with mange.

So now the running joke in our house is that everything is bears. Aliens? Bears. Loch Ness monster? Bear. Every cryptozoological mystery is just a very crafty bear.