Benjamin Franklin . Inquiring Mind . Weather Wise | PBS

The discovery and description of the Gulf Stream was another hunch that Benjamin Franklin turned into reality. Benjamin Franklin . Inquiring Mind . Weather Wise | PBShttp://www.divediscover.whoi.edu/his.../franklin.html He had many opportunities to observe the weather and the ocean in his many travels while a diplomat. These Atlantic Ocean crossings allowed him to surmise that the Gulf Stream was no babble of a brook but a mighty force which would help ships travel much faster if they used its pull. He and members of his family--cousin Timothy Folger, a Nantucket sea captain, and grandnephew Jonathan Williams, Jr-- shared in his interest in the Gulf Stream. He and Williams conducted various experiments to measure the temperature of the sea water at various depths to get a better fix on the extent of the Gulf Stream at different depths like at thirty-five fathoms. I am sure that he had some ideas though that he found too far-fetched to put down on paper and took those with him to his grave. http://www.common-place.org/vol-06/n...in/index.shtml

Jeff Knurek and David L. Hoyt Word Jumble.
 

Word Jumble Answers for Tuesday's puzzle:

Cherry.
Apply.
Muffle.
Expel.

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Franklin makes significant discovery about hurricanes and weather patterns.
 

I am sure that Benjamin Franklin would have liked seeing Ginger Zee explain this puzzle. When Franklin set out to document the lunar eclipse of November 2, 1743 (Julian Calendar October 21, 1743) in Philadelphia the storm was so bad that he could not see anything. Rather than cherry pick his observations and being the social butterfly he was, had had asked many other people to observe this event from their hometowns. One of these observers was his brother in Boston who strangely to Ben Franklin could see the eclipse even though a Nor'easter was blowing down from the Nor'east. From Boston to Philadelphia. Applying Occam's Razor, Franklin surmised that wind directions must change from on the ground to higher up. The Nor'easter could not muffle Franklin's enthusiasm about making another scientific discovery even if it had expelled his chance of seeing the November 2, 1743 lunar eclipse. TCFAQ J6) What are some important dates in the history of hurricanes http://www.infoplease.com/spot/gregorian1.html http://www.islandnet.com/~see/weathe...3/alm03oct.htm

Ben Franklin had a theory that he hoped to apply regarding the muffling of expelled gas. In his first experiment, he tried eating a pound of cherries.

I like that one. As you well may know, he wrote a 1781 satirical letter to a friend about what to do about gas and its bad smells.

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March 20, 2013 Word Jumble answers:

Blaze.
Pimple.
Virtue.
Juicy.

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Ben Franklin was very democratic in outlook and had been intrigued with idea of founding a college to meet the needs of ordinary male youth rather than that of rich youth who got into the religiously affiliated elite schools of New England-- Harvard, Yale, William and Mary, and Princeton. Even if these youth had pimples and ascribed to be rich, they could learn the 13 virtues championed by Benjamin Franklin.http://www.artofmanliness.com/2008/0...-life-wrap-up/ Franklin also wanted the youth to have sound bodies along with their sound minds. http://www.upenn.edu/about/founder.php http://www.archives.upenn.edu/primdo...proposals.html The Academy he founded opened in January of 1751 blazed a trail of academic and sports excellence especially after it took on the name of the University of Pennsylvania around 1791. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penn_Qu...9;s_basketball Penn sports teams have taken juicy bites out of the hopes of other NCAA sports teams during their attempts to win championships.

Word Jumble answers for the puzzle of March 21, 2013.
 

Grime.
Murky.
Comedy.
Stench.

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After getting funding for his Academy, Benjamin Franklin worked on getting money for another project. He came up with a clever way of collecting funding for his new cause of building a hospital-- this was the matching grant. He had convinced Pennsylvania politicians that the Assembly should match every private donation with a pubic one. Some politicians thought Franklin was too smart for his own good with this approach. Maybe his concept of what looks like compassionate conservatism to us in the money coming from the public purse as well as from private donations has a murky challenge to more established authority in it? The stench in some minds of equalitarianism as opposed to the then existing rigid class system of England. One thing, Franklin did not mind the grime on his hands if it resulted in getting an approach that worked no matter how much it looked like comedy to the powers that were in his time. http://www.pbs.org/benfranklin/l3_in...g_medical.html

March 22, 2013 Word Jumble answers.
 

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Crawl.
Mound.
Impose.
Prefer.

Franklin had a love of satire one that you see in his proposal of sending things that crawl to England. Specifically this was for rattlesnakes. Since the Mother Country sent its convicts to the Colonies could not we send rattlesnakes back to them? They at least rattle before they strike. This would not impose too much of a burden on England as seen by Franklin. They would prefer them probably from getting back their convicts. We can just imagine the British Prime Minister wondering what the new mound is in London's St. James Park and why it just looked like it moved. http://www.royalparks.org.uk/parks/s...st-jamess-park

Rattlesnakes for Felons: Ben Franklin's Immigration Plan

Saturday's Word Jumble answers. March 23, 2013.
 

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Novel.
Hardly.
Behave.
Alias.

Franklin had so many aliases that he could probably have filled a Charles Dickens' novel with all of them. Many hardly behaved. He had a great fondness for pretending to be middle aged women and seeing things from their point-of-view. http://www.pbs.org/benfranklin/l3_wit_name.html http://www.ushistory.org/franklin/co...encedogood.htm


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Mike Argirion and Jeff Knurek Sunday Word Jumble answers.
 

Sunday March 24's Word Jumble:

Botany.
Unwed.
Mislay.
Raven.

Benjamin Franklin's advances in other sciences.
 

The Franklin Tree is a rare plant named after Benjamin Franklin and shows that Franklin seemed to show up in the annals of almost every 18th Century walk of life in the U.S. and Europe. He shows up in botany.
America's 'First' Rare Plant: The Franklin Tree, by Lucy M. Rowland : Articles : Terrain.org

He made a contribution to chemistry with his experiments of oil on water which came to light because of a dispute he had with a preacher . http://www.benfranklin300.org/_etc_p...st_Mertens.pdf

Some credit him with a significant discovery about the movement of hurricanes.

He probably played a big hand in the development of hermeneutics with respect to historians' attempts to get a solid grasp of just what his views really were as they seemed to use Franklin to mislay their own philosophies on him while presenting his "real ideas". Benjamin Franklin, Trickster His feminist point of view writings also probably helped advance the station of unwed mothers especially since he lived in a common law marriage with his "wife".

In biology, he made a good argument for analyzing the behavior of birds with his pitch for the Turkey as America's bird instead of the Bald Eagle because of the carrion feeding of the Bald Eagle which acted in the same way as the vulture and the raven.

Monday 25th of March Jumble answers.
 

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Fling.
Going.
Twenty.
Boldly.