Born in 1861, Nettie Stevens received her PhD in 1903. She went on to discover sex chromosomes in mealworms. Until then, it was believed that the mother or environment determined males & females.

But... Edmund Beecher Wilson published first. He may have seen Stevens' results & also didn't quite get everything right.

Stevens' work had the correct conclusion, but Wilson is most often credited with this discovery.
https://www.vox.com/2016/7/7/12105830/nettie-stevens-genetics-gender-sex-chromosomes #HistoryRemix #history #science

You'll recall that the BoE has been calling for wage restraint in the face of #inflation... you'll also know that recent data has shown firms have maintained or increased their profits at the same time that #workers real wages have been in freefall.

So perhaps, you'll be unsurprised to know that the average wage rise to a #FTSE100 'boss' last year was 16%, taking their median salary to 3.9mn, or over £0.5 million more than the previous year.

Now that's what we might call #greedflation!

ht/FT

11 August 1936 | Dutch Jewish boy, Benjamin Wolff, was born in Sittard.

In September 1943 he was deported from Westerbork to Auschwitz. He was murdered in a gas chamber after arrival selection.

#Auschwitz #Birkenau #Holocaust #Shoah #Jews #history #histodons #Nazis #Germany #NeverForget #ww2 #Memorial #Remember #memory #otd #facts

"Outrageous burdens" including:

- years of fuel duty freezes + even extra fuel subsidies
- free/cheap roadside car storage
- billions pumped into infrastructure
- lenient justice when the worst happens
- isolated travel in a mobile living room

Poor drivers. So hard done by(!)