Nerds
Merriam Webster defines “nerd” as: : a person who behaves awkwardly around other people and usually has unstylish clothes, hair, etc. : a person who is very interested in technical subjects, computers, etc. Often, the nerd meets both definitions. You’d assume that in Western cultures, where arranged marriages are almost unheard of, nerds would stand no chance at “getting the girl”. And you’d be right, most of the time. 3 famous physicists, however, were the exceptions: Wolfgang Pauli, Erwin Schrodinger and Richard Feynman didn’t just find a girl: they were successful womanizers! (Well, Feynman did both: first, he got the girl and then, after she died, became a womanizer). Today, as software takes over the world, nerds are actually considered cool! So much so that on Facebook, a grandmother told her granddaughters to “date the nerd at school” because he might turn out to be the next Mark Zuckerburg. Zuckerburg decided to reply to her post: “Even better would be to enc...