Hot Chicks Who Are Smarter Than You, Part 2

Val Henson
Val Henson focuses on LinuxChix, a female-dominated Linux community. She also enjoys recreating the Middle Ages in The Society for Creative Anachronism.

Val is currently an operating systems programmer near San Francisco.

Lisa Randall
Lisa Randall was the 1st tenured woman in physics at Princeton; the 1st tenured woman theorist in science at Harvard and at MIT. She's the most cited theoretical physicist in the world in the last five years as of last autumn — a total of about 10,000 citations. In this regard, she is most known for two papers: "A Large mass Hierarchy From a Small Extra Dimension" (2500 citations); and and "An Alternative to Compactification" (about 2500 citations). Both concern "Warped Geometry/Spacetime" and show that infinite extra dimension and weakness of gravity can be explained with an extra dimension.

Tatiana Cooley
Give Tatiana Cooley 15 minutes to memorize 100 faces and names and she'll remember 70 of them in a snap.

Give the reigning and only USA National Memory Champion strings of 4,000 numbers, "70093518 555899 ..." or 500 words: "liquid, dairy, digit, district, garden, hair ..." and she'll repeat them better than most. Same with a 54-line poem or a deck of cards.