The Child Prodigy with a 400 IQ on This Day in History

 

This day in history: Adragon De Mello was born on this day in 1976. It is claimed that Adragon De Mello has an IQ of 400...even though IQ tests don't really score that high. Adragon De Mello graduated from the University of California, Santa Cruz with a degree in computational mathematics in 1988, at age 11. At the time, he was the youngest college graduate in U.S. history.

His early achievements may have been more due to endless hard work than to inherent intellectual capabilities. Much of the hype was due to his father, Agustin Eastwood De Mello. His father planned an ideal life for a "boy genius" before Adragon was born; it included not only graduating from college early, but also getting a doctorate in physics by age 12, winning the Nobel Prize in Physics by age 16, being elected a senator by age 20 (US senators must be at least 30 years old), becoming president of the United States by age 26 (the minimum age set by the US Constitution is 35), then head of a world government by age 30, and chairman of an intergalactic government after that. Since his father had set the goal that his son would become a Nobel Prize winner by age 16, he obsessively pushed his son in mathematics and other academic subjects from an early age. For example, when doing math homework, his father insisted that he solve an equation five times, even when he got the correct answer on the first attempt.

His father also sought publicity for his son. In 1987, while at university, Adragon and his father were interviewed by Morley Safer on 60 Minutes II. They also appeared on 48 Hours and The Tonight Show. During these interviews, Adragon would repeat the goals his father had chosen, saying he wanted to get a Ph.D. in physics and win a Nobel Prize by age 16 or 17.

When his father enrolled him in Popper-Keizer, a school for gifted children, standardized tests Adragon took suggested he was around the 85th percentile for students his age, where most students enrolled in such schools were in the 95th percentile. His father removed him from the school for gifted students "after tests showed the boy was less gifted than his father believed".

The father passed away in 2003, and Adragon De Mello now works as an estimator for a commercial painting company.

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The Learjet on This Day in History

This day in history: The very first Learjet, the Learjet 23, took off from an airport in Wichita, Kansas, on this day in 1963, with test pilots Bob Hagan and Hank Beaird at the controls. The prototype jet, the product of the investment of William P. Lear, inaugurated an era of private jet airplanes, marketed to the wealthiest of individuals.

Learjet, founded in the late 1950s as Swiss American Aviation Corporation, has been a subsidiary of Canadian Bombardier Aerospace since 1990, which markets it as the "Bombardier Learjet Family". The 3,000th Learjet was delivered in June 2017. The Learjet line was once sufficiently popular that the Learjet name became synonymous and interchangeable with the terms business jet or private jet in the popular vernacular.

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Eddie Van Halen on This Day in History

 

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This day in history: Rock guitar legend, Eddie Van Halen, passed away after a stroke on this day in 2020 at age 65.  

I recently read "Runnin' with the Devil: A Backstage Pass to the Wild Times, Loud Rock, and the Down and Dirty Truth Behind the Making of Van Halen" by Noel Monk and the book certainly made me like Van Halen a lot less. However, there was a strange story in the book relating to Van Halen's mother Eugenia:

“I liked their mother, Eugenia, but she was a complicated and unhappy woman, and my affection was born largely of compassion. You see, she suffered from what I can only assume was a type of mental illness, represented most glaringly by an irrational and sometimes paralyzing fear of Jehovah’s Witnesses. Now, I understand that Jehovah’s Witnesses confuse nearly all of us who are not of their particular Christian faith and interpretation, but Eugenia’s feelings about them went well beyond annoyance; she was inordinately terrified of them. I don’t know the origin of this phobia....Eugenia firmly believed that Jehovah’s Witnesses had followed her from Amsterdam and were trying to destroy her. She would pull you aside as if she had a secret to tell you; then she would reveal her fears and suspicions, and eventually get around to asking whether you were 'one of them' and intended to do her harm. The first time this happened to me, I mistakenly presumed that she was joking. She wasn’t. Instead, once assured that I wasn’t a member of the Jehovah’s Witnesses dispatched to hurt her, she would ask if I had seen any of 'the' on my way to her house. Were they lurking nearby? Hiding in the trees, perhaps? I didn’t know how to respond; I simply felt sorry for her. It was clear from the look of abject terror on her face that this nightmarish scenario was entirely real to her. And it was crippling." 

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Neil deGrasse Tyson on This Day in History

 

This day in history: American astrophysicist, author, and science communicator Neil deGrasse Tyson was born on this day in 1958. 

The problem with NdGT is that he is an astrophysicist who tries to speak with authority on subjects that aren't astrophysics. 

"Tyson is an attention-seeking media troll who courts adoration from bloggers, students and hipsters while picking off low-hanging fruit and mocking people he doesn’t like. But he often does this not with the master troll’s scalpel but the clumsy tin ear of the lumbering buffoon who pisses people off for all the wrong reasons, with cheap, sarcastic bait masquerading as sassy intellect." Source

One of Tyson's most famous quotes is "The good thing about Science is that it's true, whether you believe in it or not". However, Science is a process, not a collection of sacred truths. Science for the most part is always changing. Politics drive science, because politicians fund science. As a result, Science is flawed.

Neil deGrasse Tyson was asked why certain medical experts were silenced during the pandemic. His response was: "I'm not interested in medical pedigree. I'm interested in medical consensus and scientific consensus...The individual scientist does not matter." Except, we now know that the politically approved consensus was wrong, and wildly so.

Tyson also tweeted that "Whiteness" has links with climate change and transphobia. 

Tyson posted a TikTok video insisting biology is insufficient in explaining gender ideology. In the video, Tyson said that people should think about gender as a 'spectrum' because sometimes people feel more female than male and sometimes they put on makeup in the morning and sometimes they don't. 'Tomorrow I might feel 80 percent male. I'll remove the makeup, and I'll wear a muscle shirt,' Tyson said. 

Detransition activist Chloe Cole responded: 'How about we stop confusing basic human biology with cosmetics....You're using 1950s gender stereotypes for an ideology that leads to the sterilization and mastectomies of 15-year-old girls who just don't fit in, girls like me.' 

Tyson says aliens might find humans too stupid to contact. Since he is the public face of science and intelligence on this planet, they may be right.

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President Rutherford B. Hayes on This Day in History

 

This day in history: The 19th president of the United States, Rutherford B. Hayes, was born on this day in 1822. In the book, Recarving Rushmore: Ranking the Presidents on Peace, Prosperity, And Liberty, Hayes is ranked as the 4th greatest US president of all time, behind John Tyler, Grover Cleveland, and Martin Van Buren. 

Hayes only served one term, because he "believed that presidents performed better if they term-limited themselves, and so he pledged, in his campaign for president, not to seek reelection. He kept his promise. Very few presidents have self-limited their duration in office and therefore their power. Hayes’s action is important and should be commended..... In general, however, he was a very good president because he ended useless inflammatory military occupation of the South, pursued good economic policies, and generally used restraint in foreign policy and in dealing with labor unrest." Ivan Eland

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Buffalo Wings on This Day in History

 

This day in history: The first Buffalo Wings were made at the Anchor Bar in Buffalo, New York, on this day in 1964.

Several versions of the story of the invention have been circulated by the Bellissimo family and others, including:

Upon the unannounced late-night arrival of their son, Dominic, with several of his friends from college, Teresa needed a fast and easy snack to present to her guests. It was then that she came up with the idea of deep frying chicken wings and tossing them in cayenne hot sauce

Dominic told The New Yorker reporter Calvin Trillin in 1980: "It was Friday night in the bar and since people were buying a lot of drinks he wanted to do something nice for them at midnight when the mostly Catholic patrons would be able to eat meat again." He stated his mother came up with the idea of chicken wings.

There was a mistaken delivery of wings instead of backs and necks for making the bar's spaghetti sauce. Faced with this unexpected resource, Frank says that he asked Teresa to do something with them, resulting in the Buffalo wing.

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The Bill of Rights on This Day in History

 

This day in history: The United States Bill of Rights was sent to the various States for ratification on this day in 1789. James Madison drafted the Bill of Rights, which is, the first ten amendments to the Constitution—as a means of protecting the people against government tyranny.

Has it worked?

"In America today, the government does whatever it wants, freedom be damned.

We can pretend that the Constitution, which was written to hold the government accountable, is still our governing document, but the reality of life in the American police state tells a different story.

'We the people' have been terrorized, traumatized, and tricked into a semi-permanent state of compliance by a government that cares nothing for our lives or our liberties...A recitation of the Bill of Rights—set against a backdrop of government surveillance, militarized police, SWAT team raids, asset forfeiture, eminent domain, overcriminalization, armed surveillance drones, whole body scanners, stop and frisk searches (all sanctioned by Congress, the White House, the courts and the like)—would understandably sound more like a eulogy to freedoms lost than an affirmation of rights we truly possess." Source

"But whether the Constitution really be one thing, or another, this much is certain - that it has either authorized such a government as we have had, or has been powerless to prevent it." Lysander Spooner

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