My oldest daughter read Donald Trump's The Art of the Deal and with great delight recounted to me one of his descriptions of a board meeting. My wife looked at me and said "I think we should count

Here is the Log of History for January 6, the 6th day of the year. 1000*Log10(6) = c.778 because 10^0.778 = c. 6. So, what happened in the year 778 A.D.? Not a whole lot that I can tell. A minor ambush

This evening my oldest daughter and I jumped on our trampoline together. She likes to sit on a pillow and see how high I can bounce her. She laughed and shrieked as she bounced, in a sitting position,

1000xLog10(5) = c.699 because 10^0.699 = c. 5. So, what happened in the year 699 A.D.? The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle: This year the Picts slew Alderman Burt. Whoever he was. I hope it was quick. If they'd

1000*Log10(4) = c.602 because 10^0.602 = c. 4. So, what happened in the year 602 A.D.? In the Roman Empire, the Byzantine Emperor Maurice was murdered by a subordinate named Phocas, who immediately became

1000xLog10(3) = c.477 because 10^0.477 = c. 3. So, what happened in the year 477 A.D.? According to this website, there was a ruler in India named Buddhagupta. That should be an easy one to remember, although

1000*Log10(2) = c.301 because 10^0.301 = c. 2. ("c." is for circa, meaning "approximately" or "about" in Latin. Multiplying the Log by 1000 makes it look more like a year

1000xLog10(1) = 0 because 10^0 = 1. It took me some time while studying trigonometry to become convinced that mathematicians hadn't just defined whatever to the zero power as one because it had been so

In second grade (I was eight years old that year), my teacher informed us that we would be memorizing "the times tables" from 1x1 to 12x12 that year. I missed the "that year" part and

Years ago one of my daughters was climbing on the monkey bars at a local playground. While climbing down she informed me "I can get down a lot easier than I can get up!" I replied It's usually

All my professional life as a biologist, I’ve studied the effects of random encounters on living organisms. Organisms are designed to make use of as many random coincidences as possible. Random encounters

I met my second military entomologist while working in a lab genetically engineering mosquitoes. “Hey, I used to know a military entomologist,” I said, “over a decade ago, back when I worked on crickets!”