drooglyman

For what it's worth, I just spent ~10 minutes looking for a solid source on this and couldn't find confirmation.

The closest I found was a bio[1], which includes the following:

> The Institute set as a prize competition subject the propagation of heat in solid bodies for the 1811 mathematics prize. Fourier submitted his 1807 memoir together with additional work on the cooling of infinite solids and terrestrial and radiant heat. Only one other entry was received and the committee set up to decide on the award of the prize, Lagrange, Laplace, Malus, Haüy and Legendre, awarded Fourier the prize.

So it's not entirely wrong, but I think that all-star team was not his defense committee.

[1] https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Fourier

> For example, I am sure there are more muslims in the USA than there are LGBTs

No, and it's not even close. An estimated 20 million Americans identify as LGBT [1], compared to ~3.5M Muslims [2].

I wonder what might make someone underestimate the number of LGBT people in the US. Maybe... a lack of representation in popular media?

[1] https://thehill.com/changing-america/respect/diversity-inclu...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam_in_the_United_States

Yep, it's the first M.

I think in general the rule is this: - Any Ms in the correct position turn green (duh) - If there are X Ms remaining in the answer, turn the first X (non-green) Ms in the guess yellow

Suggesting that e-ink can be useful for "low refresh rate displays in VFR aircraft" sure sounds like a solution searching for a problem.

> The smell causes me to immediately change my clothes. It's not a fecal smell. I can't begin to describe it, but once you smell it you'll never forget.

I'm sorry to put this in your head but... fish sauce.