Chandra Levy Modesto, CA. murdered in Washington D.C. Unsolved

Murdered by her husband Scott Peterson in Modesto, CA.
 

 

Remember those halcyon days of youth, school dances, dragging main, listening to dedications sent out  on Stan's private line, movies and popcorn, the fun of skating at Roller King and cokes and fries. Memories are all that's left and now treasured.

 Success is not a harbor, but a voyage with its own perils to the spirit.

Jeffrey Fisher

It took scientists and engineers 43 Sols, but they were finally ready to launch the Phlying Phux.

Jeffrey Fisher

When the Moon sleeps

Of what does she dream

Of cows jumping over

Or dancing in her beams?

Where do dreams take her

What places has she been

Has she gone to visit Venus

Or heard the Martians sing?

She's seen the World wide over

From high up in her bed

The loving and the lieing

The living and the dead.

 

James Mango

When the fairy child was born they wrapped her in maple leaf and fed her nothing but caterpillars they found on the Butterfly Bush. In time the child grew and lo, one morning two iridescent blue butterflies sprouted from her head and she flew away to a land where parents were not so cruel, and lived happily ever after. The End.

 

In 1990, Marilyn vos Savant answered a math question that made the world erupt.

At the time, she was known for one astonishing fact: her IQ was 228—the highest ever recorded. She had read all 24 volumes of Encyclopedia Britannica by age 10, and later became the face of Parade Magazine’s “Ask Marilyn” column.

Then came the Monty Hall Problem:

You’re on a game show with 3 doors. Behind one is a car; behind the others, goats. You pick a door. The host opens one of the remaining doors, revealing a goat.

Do you switch?

Marilyn said, yes—you should switch.

The backlash? Brutal.

Over 10,000 letters flooded in. Nearly 1,000 were from PhDs—most telling her she was wrong.

“You are the goat!” one wrote.

“Maybe women just don’t understand probability,” another said.

But Marilyn was right.

Switching gives you a 2/3 chance of winning.

Staying? Only 1/3.

It took MIT simulations, TV shows like MythBusters, and countless professors to finally admit—she saw what they couldn’t.

Why did so many get it wrong?

Because the math felt wrong. The problem was simple—but our intuition isn’t built for probability. And because she was a woman, many ignored the logic and attacked the person.

Marilyn later said the real issue wasn’t math. It was how we teach thinking.

“Schools discourage independent thought,” she said. “We’re trained to memorize—not to reason.”

She still sees her gift as a blessing. But in a world that feared her brilliance, it was also a burden.

#WomenInSTEM #MathMatters

~Forgotten Stories