Author: Backpacking Dad

The third Superman film sets the Man of Steel against a rich villain, Ross Webster, who has a gal Friday named Lorelei Ambrosia. Lorelei is usually portrayed as ditzy in the film, but in one remarkable scene she sits alone reading Immanuel Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason. She isn’t just pretending to read it, either;…

I’ve always been afraid of calculus. I have no idea what any of the symbols mean and I’m not even sure what we use it for. Is it rockets? Did we invent calculus so we could build rockets? And by “we” I of course mean “Sir Isaac Newton”. Newton, natural philosopher (a term for ‘scientist’…

{Post Removed For Copyright Violation and Lack of Comedic Merit} (Post actually written by Liz Gumbiner of Mom-101 and as soon as she reads this she’s going to kick my ass. Also, Liz, you should really pay me for editing this post because you totally added an “of”  after “(thanks, Google Alerts)” and since I…