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  1. Euler and others on Marriage May Tame Genius · · Score: 4, Informative

    Leonhard Euler was married and had fourteen children. He was also stone blind for the last 17 years of his life. Despite this he made tremendous and lasting contributions to the field of mathematics.

    One biography says of him:
    "He was blind for the last 17 years of his life, and during that time his mathematical productivity actually increased. It was said that Euler had tremendous powers of concentration and that he was even able to do mathematics 'with a baby in his lap while the older children played all about him.'"

    If the trend is that people become less creative after they marry, it is likely due to a lack of time rather than any suppresion of the creative instinct.

    If the study had concentrated on people for whom creativity was essential to their livelihood I doubt there'd be a correlation between creativity and being married. Many artists and writers are married and still turn out works of genius. Some don't even become famous for their works until long after they're married, for example J.K. Rowlings (a woman, I know, and whether or not you like Harry Potter it is a great work), and Stephen King(one of the most prolific writers of our time).

  2. Re:3d displays cannot work on 3D LCD Display · · Score: 1

    Oh pls... Depth perception is the result of the brain comparing the two images generated by each eye. The closer the object, the greater the perceived difference. Human brains operate on millisecond speed (if that) and your eye can register up to 60 images a second or so, which means that practically speaking, the speed of the light hitting your eyes is inconsequential unless the difference is massive(by several orders of magnitude). Go back to school, 'genius'.