Proper Lever-age
on June 26, 2018
If nothing else, this week will be a helpful reminder that I can still draw things on paper.
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Ben Franklin’s Politakes
on June 25, 2018
I believe strongly in the power of a well-placed political cartoon. When I first started Two Party Opera, I talked about Ben Franklin in the 18th century, Thomas Nast in the 19th, and Herblock in the 20th. Pillars of the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Groundhog Day or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Release the Memo
If Punxsutawney Phil sees his shadow, it’ll be six more weeks of constitutional crises.
Someone check my math on this one. I believe a typical Leyden jar can store about one nanofarad (1 nF) of power. How many farads does it take to screw in a light bulb? Benjamin Franklin’s kite experiment is one[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
With the news that Elon Musk is going to use the full force of Tesla to help rebuild Puerto Rico’s energy grid, let’s hear it for our resident madman of electrical science, Benjamin Franklin!
