The late Hans Rosling, in his recent book Factfulness – Ten Reasons We’re Wrong About the World — and Why Things Are Better Than You Think, relates an experience that bumps into Franklin. Rosling gave lectures about statistics that prove the world is in better shape than people commonly believe. His lectures were enthusiastically received, …
Franklin wrote, in sentence 48 of The Way To Wealth: Three Removes is as bad as a Fire, with the word Removes meaning what we now call moves: the process of changing residences. Franklin’s immediate meaning is that changing residences, starting over someplace else, is costly: damages and losses ensue. Fair enough. In my family, …
Snowlion Repertory Company in Portland, Maine will premiere a new musical based on Anton Mesmer (perhaps the only man who made music for both Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and for Benjamin Franklin) this May. The cast of characters looks very promising.
There is a spectacular display on Franklin as a swimmer pictured in this report from the International Swimming Hall of Fame in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. There is an informative video of a public presentation to a group of young students. Congratulations to all involved!
