Thesis, Squeeze, Quirk

At age 3, she was considered quirky. At age 12, she defended her doctoral thesis (Editor’s note: The title of the paper is omitted due to its sheer complexity. I’m not sure the examiners understood it.)

In a recent PBS documentary, Hannah Gardener, now age 76, explained her ideas to a disbelieving public: that energy and consciousness suffuse the space/time continuum much like juice in an orange and that with the proper technique, one can squeeze the “juice” from it.

Only one person watching the TV understood what she said. Aged 8, Joshua Pemberton envisioned an unusual juicing machine.