11 JUN 2012 by ideonexus
The Birth of the Atomic Age
The Atomic Age began at exactly 5.30 Mountain War Time on the morning of July 15, 1945, on a stretch of semi-desert land about 50 airline miles from Alamogordo, New Mexico. And just at that instance there rose from the bowels of the earth a light not of this world, the light of many suns in one. ... At first it was a giant column that soon took the shape of a supramundane mushroom.Down to the minute. A glorious, haunting description.
17 MAY 2012 by ideonexus
Benjamin Franklin on Daylight Savings Time
I say it is impossible that so sensible a people [citizens of Paris], under such circumstances, should have lived so long by the smoky, unwholesome, and enormously expensive light of candles, if they had really known that they might have had as much pure light of the sun for nothing.Noting that the people of Paris spend much money on candles when they could simply adjust their clocks to rise with the sun.