Leonardo's Notebooks

Leonardo's Notebooks: "Vitruvius, the architect, says in his work on architecture that the measurements of the human body are distributed by Nature as follows: that is that 4 fingers make 1 palm and 4 palms make 1 foot, 6 palms make 1 cubit; 4 cubits make a man's height. And 4 cubits make one pace and 24 palms make a man; and these measures he used in his building. If you open your legs so much as to decrease your height 1/14 and spread and raise your arms till your middle fingers touch the level of the top of your head you must know that the centre of the outspread limbs will be in the navel and the space between the legs will be an equilateral triangle."

Now that's someone who knows how to observe. Thanks for changing the direction of the western world Leonardo!

Op-Ed Columnist - Putting Our Brains on Hold - NYTimes.com

Op-Ed Columnist - Putting Our Brains on Hold - NYTimes.com

This guy is right, our nation is falling apart right before our eyes. Why don't we care anymore?