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Can we take a moment to acknowledge her incredible presentational ability? She was charming, wry, slightly subversive, and still conveyed a really cool scientif

• corrral 4y ago
  I've noticed that the prep-school-to-Ivy pipeline is great at producing people with that quality. I just checked and, sure enough, that's exactly what she did. [EDIT] The quality of being a confident, engaging conversationalist and presenter, I mean. For her it was The Hartridge School and then Yale. Hartridge, in its modern form as the Wardlaw-Hartridge School, runs a bit over $40k/yr by the time you're nearing the end, down to about $16k for pre-k, though many won't be paying full sticker price.
• bsder 4y ago
  Charming, wry, and slightly subversive is all her personality. However, more than a few people who have been on the receiving end would argue with you about "charming" and "slightly". Presentation ability, however, was learned and practiced a lot. She used to make all her subordinates give oral reports weekly on written articles she would pass out and then discuss as a group. If you committed any of various presentation sins, you had to dump a quarter into the penalty jar. Her subordinates got very good at presentations.