Showing posts with label science. Show all posts
Showing posts with label science. Show all posts

Wednesday, August 15, 2012

Is It Necessary?

I'm on vacation this week.  Wheeeeeeee!  We've just been doing day trips with the kids...the zoo, the local corn mega maze (3 hours of my life I'll never get back) and today, the Museum of Science. 

While we were walking through, I stopped at a scientific timeline on the wall.  It had interesting facts about the start of science and small snippets about famous people who helped progress along.

I reached Leonardo Da Vinci's snippet and did a double take. 



Was it necessary to mention the fact that Da Vinci was a bastard right away?  I mean, even Wikipedia doesn't say it until the second paragraph of the write up and even then it just says, "born out of wedlock". 

Not that I'm ashamed myself of being a bastard.  I own that title...I earned that title.  But Jeez Louise, really?