Intellectual Ninja is a
series of posts about people who are not only brilliant, but also brilliant in
previously unheard of ways. These are people that have influenced and shaped
our civilization. They are also amazingly cool. Below you will find a gallery of the Intellectual Ninja posts with brief descriptions and links to the full posts. Please feel free to nominate candidates for future posts.
Henry David Thoreau
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| Henry David Thoreau Poet, Writer, Naturalist, Botanist, War Protester, and Intellectual Ninja |
Thoreau was a genius. He was Harvard educated and could have been anything he wanted to be. The most likely occupations for him seemed to be that of lawyer or clergyman. He rejected both of these and instead became an Intellectual Ninja.
He is one of the most influential thinkers ever. He has been a source of inspiration for several Nobel Peace Prize winners. Click here to read more about how one-of-a-kind awesome Henry David Thoreau was.
Emily Dickinson
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| Emily Dickinson Poet, Master of Stealth, and Intellectual Ninja |
Emily Dickinson was so ninja, almost nobody knew she was one of the world’s most amazing poets until after her death. During her lifetime only ten or eleven of her poems were published. After her death it was discovered that she had written over 1800 different poems.
She wrote in a style much different from what was common in poetry during her lifetime. She used a different rhyme scheme. She also rarely used titles and experimented with punctuation and capitalization. She was probably one of the first modern poets, even though that movement wouldn’t officially begin until well after her death. Click here to find out how Dickinson turned poetry on its head.
Philo T. Farnsworth
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| Philo T. Farnsworth Inventor, Father of Television, and Intellectual Ninja |
What were you doing when you were thirteen years old?
Farnsworth was plowing his family’s farm near Rigby, Idaho inventing the
framework for the television. His ideas would remain a part of every television
manufactured through almost the entire 20th century. He also, on his
own, found an old burnt out motor at their new farm, took it apart, and used
the pieces to convert his mother’s handmade washing machine into an electric
one. He also won $25 for inventing a magnetized car lock.
Ada Lovelace
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| Ada Lovelace Mathematician, Coder, Computer Visionary, and Intellectual Ninja |
Gandhi
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| Gandhi Peace Activist, Lawyer, Civil Rights Leader, and Intellectual Ninja |
Marie Curie
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| Marie Curie Scientist, Double Nobel Prize Winner, Author, Medical- Pioneer and Intellectual Ninja |
Curie’s scientific discoveries changed the course of history by opening the way for advanced medical treatments. She served as a radiologist in a war zone. Her philanthropy continues to save lives today through the two advanced medical research institutes she founded. Oh yeah, she also wrote an amazing cookbook. However her cookbook and many of her scientific papers are too radioactive to touch. Click here to learn more about Marie Curie.
Roger Tomlinson
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| Roger Tomlinson Geographer, Geoligist, Innovator and Intellectual Ninja |
Have you ever used Google Maps, your cell phone, or a hand
held GPS unit to find anything? If so you can thank Roger Tomlinson. He was
ninja enough to invent a new field of study and discipline, Geographic
Information Systems (GIS). This British genius led Canada to create the first
computerized GIS system in the world.
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Jason McBride is the creator of the Intellectual Ninja and the Scourge of Scoundrels series. He is also the author of Watch Out For Sneaker Waves. He is currently hard at work on his first book of fiction, available Spring 2014.
He is the proud father of four amazing children and the happy husband of one wife. He aspires to be an extreme sleeper.
