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A careful inspection with his spyglass of the American works “convinces me that they have no men of military science,” Burgoyne wrote in a dispatch to Carleton.
The Fate of the Day
Rick Atkinson
Cultural anthropologist Grant McCracken calls actions such as these and other timely experiments Culturematics. He wrote a book by the same name on the subject, where he recommends putting out low-cost, playful ideas into the world. If we don’t, he warns, we’ll be left behind, because it’s almost impossible to know what the next compelling and spreadable idea will be.
Brain Surfing
Heather LeFevre
Roebuck and Isis anchored near Augusta’s wreckage in a futile effort to fend off rebel scavengers, who soon recovered more than two dozen 24-pounders, twenty-seven silver watches, and some uncharred linen. The hulk would remain a menace to navigation for nearly a century, until her timbers were salvaged for furniture and woodwork in the headquarters of the Daughters of the American Revolution.
The Fate of the Day
Rick Atkinson
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