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George Zipperlen's avatar

Almost an inversion of "How the Hippies Saved Physics". This would have been "How hyperbolic geometry saved the Funk and Rasta head gear."

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Margaret Wertheim's avatar

Very nice!! Thanks for this inversive thought.

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John Horgan's avatar

What a fantastic funkadelic yarn!

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John Horgan's avatar

FYI I sent this column to my friend Ruth Copeland, a rocker who toured with Sly and knew him well, and she replied:

Lucky for Margaret this yarn never spun out. It's far more likely Sly was looking at the woman and not the hat. That could have been a not so 'natty dread'.

Singer

Ruth Copeland

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Margaret Wertheim's avatar

interesting....

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