Pretty woman.

Being a lovely lass can be a real pain in the rhyming word.

This is Hedy Lamarr, not unjustly billed as ‘the most beautiful woman in the world’ in her time (she was also famed for her orgasm scenes). Fluttery eyelashes, perfect lips, and dreamy eyes on a brunette make for a particularly strong charm offensive.

However, that is not her most admirable bit, nor why she ought be a model to young women.

Said beauteous belle is the co-inventor of frequency hopping, which helped build torpedoes that are harder to detect or jam, and forms the basis of modern CDMA and WiFi technology. Lamarr wanted to join the National Inventors Council, but they unkindly suggested she’d be more help to the cause by trying to raise money instead. She raised seven million dollars in a single event.

Lamarr was understandably pained at the media’s obsession with her bod and neglect of her more significant assets. She died in 2000, missing the 2003 Boeing commercial which pitched her scientific achievement and did not mention her acting at all. She’d've liked that.

Any girl can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid.

- Hedy Lamarr

Unfortunately for us, that attitude is still around. Damn the media, girls. Brains are sexy.

'How It Works' - XKCD.

PS. ‘Hedy’ is short for ‘Hedwig’.

Look, hooters!