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> Q: Bone to pick: your list excludes women.

> Jim Holt: It wasn’t meant to be that way! I was going to include a Harvard physicist who’s not only a woman but she’s extremely attractive.

WTF?

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Social awareness and "intelligence" often seem to have an inverse correlation in my experience.

Maybe he thinks the general public believes that the scientific community tends to discriminate against _attractive_ women the most, and he's trying to address that?

I don't know, but it seems like there may be a bit of a disconnect between him and the rest of society.

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