“Bringing the Future to You” (fromCheer Up, Universe!). That story contains too many science violations to list, but I meant the tale to be funny. “Leonardo’s Lion.” Some accounts state Leonardo da Vinci built a walking, clockwork lion. Even if true, it’s doubtful the creation w...
In Wikipedia’sarticleon the long tail, they quote an Amazon employee as saying, “We sold more books today that didn’t sell at all yesterday than we sold today of all the books that did sell yesterday.” You might have to read that again and let it sink in. I’ll wait. In fact...
And instead of thousands of operations per minute, the microprocessor is executing billions of calculations per second, .. not only was the earth not the center of the universe, but its rotation wasn’t even consistent enough to define a day accurately. a block of vibrating sand could do the...