Standard Deviations From the Beaten Path

This one only just barely slips in on-topic. I think I’ve mentioned before my almost unhealthy obsession with the nuttery of one R. Buckminster Fuller. His ideas are often patently crazy, but simultaneously inspiring, artistic, and utterly fascinating. He invented the geodesic dome and a whole host of other things, now mostly unused. So when my  fabulous colleague told me about a book she saw at the store about a kid living with his grandmother who was obsessed with Fuller, I had to find it. Then I read it. And now I want to tell you what I thought about it, The House of Tomorrow by Peter Bognanni.

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