Today is Leap Day. We add this extra day in February if the year is evenly divisible by four. That’s once every four years. Right? Wrong.
Category Archives: Science/Math
The “Turtle”
February 28, 2008 – 8:28 am
Hidden behind a fishing boat, a strange craft is silently lowered into the water. The inventor, David Bushnell, has named it “Turtle” because of its shape…and because it is a submarine. It carries a single bomb and its mission is sabotage. A thin young man named Ezra Lee hands Bushnell a final letter for his [...]
The Vanishing Point
February 25, 2008 – 8:24 am
My mother died ten years ago this week, and I am brought to think of the vanishing point, that not-so-distant past beyond which none of us can know the fathers and mothers who brought us here. My parents were flesh to me, as were both grandmothers. I never knew either grandfather, but they are romance [...]
Happy Birthday to Great Men
February 12, 2008 – 6:44 pm
. Born 199 years ago, February 12, 1809: Charles Darwin, who changed the way we think about a human’s place in the bios, and Abraham Lincoln, who changed the way we think about a human’s place in society. .
