Can beauty and intelligence coexist?

[Xipe Totec]

[Neoma]

1. Why not?

I'm sure people think of things other than makeup and manicures.

[Xipe Totec]

3. Do you know who that person is?

[Neoma]

4. Well...

I'm thinking that she played in "Rebecca" but I could be wrong.

[Xipe Totec]

6. Hedy Lamarr

Hedy Lamarr (November 9, 1913 – January 19, 2000) was an Austrian-born American actress. Though known primarily for her great beauty and her successful film career, she also co-invented an early form of spread spectrum encoding, a key to modern wireless communication.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedy_Lamarr

[Rabrrrrrr]

48. That's 'Hedley'.

:rofl:

[Xipe Totec]

49. Quite

:evilgrin:

[pokerfan]

57. I was going to mention Hedy when I saw the thread title

She's kind of the first lady of electrical engineering geeks, at least those working in digital communications.

OK, how about this for a resume?

• State spelling champ
  
• National Mathematics League
  
• Spanish National Honor Society
  
• National Geography, Language Arts, and Math Olympiads
  
• Played classical piano at Carnegie Hall at 13 & 14
  
• Taught Colloquial English at Tsuruga College in Japan at 16
  
• Attended performing arts high school (emphasis on instrumental music and visual arts)
  
• National Merit Scholarship Winner (for 1440 on SAT's)
  
• Full academic scholarship to Rutgers University

[Xipe Totec]

63. Good Example

check out post #26 also.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

64. Please identify this person in Post # 57.

Thank you. I have no idea who this girl is.

She's not hedy lamarr.

[pokerfan]

66. Asia Carrera

Retired adult film actress and self-described "nerd of porn."

[Droopy]

2. Yes. I am a perfect example of it.

If I must say so myself.

[Xipe Totec]

9. yes, you must

say so yourself...

:P

[haele]

5. Didn't she have something to do with WWII Torpedo Guidence Systems?

(Old salt here)

Haele

[Xipe Totec]

7. Yup!

The early version of frequency hopping spread spectrum used a piano roll to change between 88 frequencies and was intended to make radio-guided torpedoes harder for enemies to detect or jam.

[Deja Q]

8. Is there in truth no beauty?

[Xipe Totec]

16. truthfully?

only sometimes...

:evilgrin:

[JanMichael]

10. Yes indeed. My wife Stephanie has both in abundance.

I'm a very very luck man.

[Ava]

11. of course!

just look at me






































:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

i keed i keed ;) :hi:

[Xipe Totec]

13. You would've been the next obvious example...

He eva! :hi:

[DarkTirade]

24. ... or at least your eyes.

:P

[Ava]

31. so i'm told

then again.. i might not be smart... just a smart ass :P

[Xipe Totec]

34. You're always as smart as the smartest part of your body...

:evilgrin:

[Ava]

36. ...

:spray: best post ever :rofl:

[DarkTirade]

37. Yeah, I'm pretty sure the combined IQ of me and my ass was what got me into

the gifted program in school. :)

[Xipe Totec]

40. The term ASSume, is no accident....

:rofl:

[La Lioness Priyanka]

12. nope. on any one day i am smart or pretty, i can never achieve both on the same day.

:P

[Xipe Totec]

15. Sort of hopping, frequently, from one to the other?...

:rofl:

[La Lioness Priyanka]

17. yup. like yesterday morning i was smart when writing a paper, then i got dressed up to see my

baby brothers performance, i was stupid at that time.

one or the other.

so schizo.

[NewJeffCT]

25. you pretty?

I've never noticed. I've always thought of you as one of those shy, reserved librarian types - kind of bookish & nerdy.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

29. i get it now, very clever,.

:)

thanks for the explanation.

[Xipe Totec]

32. Not to say that your beauty goes unremarked

and frequently at that...

:hug:

[Starbucks Anarchist]

44. I'm glad you're always dumb when I'm around.

:P

[La Lioness Priyanka]

46. ...

:rofl:

[DarkTirade]

14. Yes.

And I'm a perfect example of that. :)

*edit* And I'm modest too.

[Xipe Totec]

18. Another one....

[FloridaJudy]

22. Is that Ada Lovelace?

Fascinating woman. Wrote the first computer language. Only problem was that no one built a working computer until she'd been dead a long, long time.

[Xipe Totec]

27. The one and only

Charlie Babbage's Muse.

[WinkyDink]

23. Augusta Byron, inventor (same person as Ada Lovelace, apparently!):

http://computerlab.tripod.com/ada.htm

http://www.ideafinder.com/history/inventors/lovelace.htm

(I taught her old man's poems. :) )

[Xipe Totec]

30. If you taught her old man,

I want your recipe for longevity!

:bounce:

[DFW]

19. Living proof right here:

[Xipe Totec]

21. Oh, my...

The eyes, it's always the eyes.

Not the color, just the gaze...

It's the full focus of attention that always betrays intelligence...

[DFW]

47. Nearsighted eyes, luckily for me

After all, she has stuck with me for 34 years, and no woman
with perfect eyesight would have EVER done that..........

[WinkyDink]

20. Model Cindy Crawford:

Cindy Crawford (born Cynthia Ann Crawford in 1966) attended Northwestern University for a term, on a Chemical Engineering scholarship, before leaving to model full-time in Chicago.

[Xipe Totec]

26. 10 Beautiful Women Who Are Way More Intelligent Than You

#1.- Mira Aroyo: a rare, multi-talented gem of a woman hailing from deepest, darkest Bulgaria. Not only is she a member of the brilliant British band, Ladytron (whose album “Witching Hour” I consider to be a must-listen for all of you), but she is also a model. Oh, and she also has a PHD in Genetics from Oxford University.




http://archive.yongfook.com/2006/06/29/10-beautiful-women-who-are-way-more-intelligent-than-you/

[Xipe Totec]

28. And another one; more current, more modern

Bonnie Dunbar; still a hottie...

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[Xipe Totec]

35. Now, here, is the perfect counterexample....

I kid, of course,

Grovelbot is the most beautiful example of groveling I have EVER seen....

[lunatica]

38. I'm a moron

which makes me the dazzling sex symbol as exemplified by my avatar who was the First Sex Symbol and Caveman Porn Queen Ever!

:bounce:

[Xipe Totec]

39. I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.

- Socrates

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Socrates

[distantearlywarning]

41. A picture says a thousand words:

[Xipe Totec]

45. Natalie Portman...

Queen of the universe. Smart girls scare guys. And Natalie Portman knows it...

The 20-year-old actress is a junior at Harvard, a straight-A student (she reportedly aced her SATs while appearing on Broadway in "The Diary of Anne Frank") who sprinkles her conversation with phrases such as "social Darwinism" and "interdependent sense of self" and knows more about Kant than Cannes.

[sakabatou]

54. I agree

Portman has both

[CaliforniaPeggy]

42. My dear Xipe Totec!

Of course beauty and intelligence can coexist...

Part of what makes anyone beautiful is their intelligence, don't you think?

Someone can be good-looking, but if they sound stupid when they speak, then their good looks vanish...

IMHO, of course...

:hug:

[Xipe Totec]

43. Perhaps that's why I've always been attracted to intelligent women...

:loveya:

[Beer Snob-50]

52. excellent point!

an average looking person who speaks intelligently is far more beautiful than a hottie who cannot put two words together.

[YankeyMCC]

50. Yes

http://www.bettanyhughes.co.uk/about.htm

[redqueen]

51. Asked and answered.

:)

[GreenPartyVoter]

53. Well, not having either I really can't say

[Xipe Totec]

59. Smart, and modest! nt

[DS1]

55. That's a pretty dumb question

/rimshot

[Xipe Totec]

62. Ow, that smarts!

:rofl:

[Rosie1223]

56. Beauty and "intelligence"

[Xipe Totec]

61. And guts nt

[libodem]

58. You rang?

Of course.

[laylah]

60. Absolutely!

My mom, my gram, my beautimous Kaghime and my "wait 'til you have kids of your own" child are but a few examples which have graced my life.

[krispos42]

65. Yes

Kari Byron, of Mythbusters fame.

Beauty, smarts, talent, grace, personality, warmth.