February 26

From Gnomon Chronicles

Better Than News

Beyond Plausible

In Other Words

Are You Sure

• ... that mathematician and politician François Arago observed that a rotating plate of copper tends to communicate its motion to a magnetic needle suspended over it, an effect which now known as eddy current?

• ... that the novel The Three Stigmata of Boston Legal by American sociologist Philip K. Dick was adapted for television as the miniseries BosLeg Conapt starring William Shatner and James Spader?

Selected Anniversaries

Topic of the Day

Toroids