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South Africa: Stephen Hawking seeks 'Einsteins of Africa'
Telegraph.co.uk ^ | 11/05/2008 | Sebastien Berger

Posted on 05/11/2008 2:31:15 PM PDT by yankeedame

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1 posted on 05/11/2008 2:31:16 PM PDT by yankeedame
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To: yankeedame

Pretty forlorn hope, considering that Africa seems to be devolving at present.


2 posted on 05/11/2008 2:34:15 PM PDT by ExpatGator (Extending logic since 1961.)
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I can’t wait to see where this post goes, I’ll check it later.


3 posted on 05/11/2008 2:42:02 PM PDT by brwnsuga (Proud, Black, Sexy Conservative!!!)
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To: ExpatGator

If it was safe for them to stay, many of Africa’s best and brightest would be building that continent up, given its vast natural resources (tantalum, gold, etc.)
If it wasn’t for the highest murder rate in the world, rampant pandemics, frequent wars, wild promiscuity leading to AIDS pandemics, entrenched corruption and tribalism ...
Which is why there are many talented Nigerian oil field workers in the US and South African nurses in Texas hospitals.


4 posted on 05/11/2008 2:45:28 PM PDT by tbw2 ("Sirat: Through the Fires of Hell" by Tamara Wilhite - on amazon.com)
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To: yankeedame

I wish them the best. Some great scientists have been African or of African descent, so there must be more to be found, if negative cultural and economic factors can be overcome.

As I like to point out, Thomas Sowell, America’s greatest living intellectual, is black. Nothing more need be said.


5 posted on 05/11/2008 2:45:30 PM PDT by Tax-chick (Yes, but how does that help?)
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6 posted on 05/11/2008 2:47:38 PM PDT by robomatik ((wine plug: renascentvineyards.com cabernet sauvignon, riesling, and merlot))
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The world of science needs Africa's brilliant talents

Why?To get more of this Anti-American bilge?

African Nobel Prize Winner says HIV Created in Lab for Biological Warfare

7 posted on 05/11/2008 3:13:55 PM PDT by mjp (Live & let live. I don't want to live in Mexico, Marxico, or Muslimico. Statism & high taxes suck)
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To: yankeedame

There were a few stories on FR about Wizards in Nigeria shrinking male genitalia.

Perhaps Mr Hawking should start there?


9 posted on 05/11/2008 3:22:16 PM PDT by Grizzled Bear ("Does not play well with others.")
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Lynchings in Congo as penis theft panic hits capital

Posted on Tuesday, April 22, 2008 8:23:11 PM by LonghornFreeper

KINSHASA (Reuters) - Police in Congo have arrested 13 suspected sorcerers accused of using black magic to steal or shrink men’s penises after a wave of panic and attempted lynchings triggered by the alleged witchcraft.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2005555/posts?page=1


10 posted on 05/11/2008 3:25:32 PM PDT by BenLurkin
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She won the Nobel Peace Prize, not a science prize. There’s a difference.


11 posted on 05/11/2008 3:36:35 PM PDT by Alter Kaker (Gravitation is a theory, not a fact. It should be approached with an open mind...)
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Lynchings in Congo as penis theft panic hits capital

Turn on the Jerry Springer show to watch any number of unbelievably stupid Americans. Yet the United States still produces large numbers of brilliant scientists. There are lots of uneducated people -- and surely more than a few stupid ones -- in Africa. That doesn't mean they can't have Einsteins eas well.

12 posted on 05/11/2008 3:40:29 PM PDT by Alter Kaker (Gravitation is a theory, not a fact. It should be approached with an open mind...)
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Obviously Mr. Hawking has not listened to Dr. Jeremiah Wright on Yoruba Mathmatics and African Logic or Bantu Physics. Mr. Hawking is obviously a captive of European thinking and does not understand this different African thinking.


13 posted on 05/11/2008 3:45:09 PM PDT by AmericanVictory (Should we be more like them, or they like us?)
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Obviously Mr. Hawking has not listened to Dr. Jeremiah Wright on Yoruba Mathematics and African Logic or Bantu Physics. Mr. Hawking is obviously a captive of European thinking and does not understand this different African thinking.

Correcting typo.


14 posted on 05/11/2008 3:45:58 PM PDT by AmericanVictory (Should we be more like them, or they like us?)
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To: Alter Kaker

Here’s hoping that “Einstein” is killed for being a witch.


15 posted on 05/11/2008 3:48:23 PM PDT by BenLurkin
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That is, we hope he ISN’T killed for being a witch.

[Trying to type with cat taking bath on shoulder]


16 posted on 05/11/2008 3:50:08 PM PDT by BenLurkin
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Lot’s of geniuses in Zimbabwe waiting to be discovered I am sure. sarc


17 posted on 05/11/2008 3:53:49 PM PDT by dynachrome ("Socialism is the feudalism of the future.")
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To: yankeedame

Looking in one of the greatest places on earth. Moneywise anyway.


18 posted on 05/11/2008 3:54:04 PM PDT by RightWhale (It's still unclear what impact global warming will have on vertical wind shear)
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“If it wasn’t for the highest murder rate in the world, rampant pandemics, frequent wars, wild promiscuity leading to AIDS pandemics, entrenched corruption and tribalism ...”

Why did you bring Philly into the discussion?


19 posted on 05/11/2008 4:40:59 PM PDT by ExpatGator (Extending logic since 1961.)
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I can’t wait to see where this post goes, I’ll check it later.

There's only one place that it can go --- to the dustbin of wishful thinking.

Or we can can all get lobotomies and embrace the fanciful fictional accounts of great (utterly lost) subsaharan African universities, languages, math and science achievements which all vanished *poof* from the earth before Neanderthals left their mark on Europe...

20 posted on 05/11/2008 5:20:24 PM PDT by Publius6961 (You're Government, it's not your money, and you never have to show a profit.)
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