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The circle was the most complete shape and an epitome of perfection for the ancient Greeks. The good old Greeks were suspicious of anything that had no limits. A circle...
Mad Hatter Day is on October 6, but it might as well be today. Mad Hatter Day draws its inspirations from a book, but not from the words in it...
Today is the 120th birthday of David B. Steinman. If you do not recognize the name, I'm sure you are familiar with some of Seinman's metaphorical children: Mackinac Bridge, (the...
What do you expect from a "combined phonograph and stereopticon"? When John Ballance (not the prime minister of New Zealand) received U.S. patent 823,022 for the lovely apparatus thus named...
He has been called "the man who changed everything." This lad from Scotland died at a relatively young age, yet accomplished so much Einstein called his work "the most fruitful...
Father's Day is not yet a hundred years old — it was "invented" by John B. Dodd in 1909 —, but the early days already brought many nice traditions. To...
If you shout at your steaming hot 2nd flush Darjeeling tea, will that make it any cooler? Well... yes. And if you shout loud and long enough, you can keep...
Diligently, and for years, you have been working on it. The theory of mathematics is about to be published. Now, and unexpectedly, somebody tells you, trying hard not to hurt...
