If time travel were possible, I’d
like to spend some of it with Ben Franklin.
And it’s not because he’s the face
on our $100 bill, or that he was the only “founding father” who
signed all four of the documents that created America. It’s because
he was a true polymath, an 18th century renaissance man
who was an inventor, a scientist, a meteorologist, an amateur
physicist, a writer, a printer, a statesman, a diplomat, and a
revolutionary. It’s hard not to be awed by this...