Pliny the Elder described a Whale ...  Pliny the Elder described a Whale called "Balaena or Whirlpool, which is so long and broad as to take up more in length and breadth than two acres of ground." This brings up again the old question:
Are the classics doomed? Our ancestors believed that four years of this sort of information would inevitably produce a President, or at least a Cabinet Member. It didn't seem to work out that way.
Will Cuppy
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mathism: mathism:
The disparagement of math in general and of the benefits of math education in particular.
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