This Week in Tech History: Leap Day Origins, Pioneer 10 Space Probe Launched
Leap Day was initially instituted by a jealous Roman emperor, but it was later backed up by science.
Hoover Dam
Chinese Takeaway: The U.S. Could Use an Order of Order
It’s worth asking whether, in our desire to empower citizens, we’ve become so bound by rules and requirements that we can’t build anything of consequence anymore.
Ambitious First Novel: A Hoover Dam Epic
Waterborne , by Bruce Murkoff. Alfred A. Knopf, 416 pages, $25. Dam-building is a dramatic business. It demands explosives, ingenuity
