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April Grant runs an occasional series on her Youtube channel in which she talks about weird and wonderful true stories in and near Boston. Her most recent one was on Roger Babson (1875–1967) and his war on gravity, "our enemy number one," as he termed it.
You see, Roger Babson lost two loved ones to drowning, and of course therefore he blamed ... gravity.
In addition to founding the Gravity Research Foundation (which to this day holds a gravity-themed essay contest with a $4,000 prize--April tells us that Stephen Hawking was among past winners), Babson also founded Babson College in the Boston area and --well, I don't want to give away everything. Let's just say that the video reminded me that I want to visit Dogtown, and Tufts University's Institute of Cosmology has a truly unique graduation ritual.
Below is the embedded video, but if you go to the Youtube page, you'll find lots of fun links related to her talk, along with a transcript (but watch the video--April is such a fun presenter).
You see, Roger Babson lost two loved ones to drowning, and of course therefore he blamed ... gravity.
In addition to founding the Gravity Research Foundation (which to this day holds a gravity-themed essay contest with a $4,000 prize--April tells us that Stephen Hawking was among past winners), Babson also founded Babson College in the Boston area and --well, I don't want to give away everything. Let's just say that the video reminded me that I want to visit Dogtown, and Tufts University's Institute of Cosmology has a truly unique graduation ritual.
Below is the embedded video, but if you go to the Youtube page, you'll find lots of fun links related to her talk, along with a transcript (but watch the video--April is such a fun presenter).
