Thanks to colleague Scott Shaffer (University of Vermont) for sharing this amazing NYT blog entry on Benjamin Franklin and inventing by Maira Kalman: http://kalman.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/30/can-do/
Artist Maira Kalman's series on American democracy, "And the Pursuit of Happiness", begins with the inauguration of President Obama and continues with a new entry each month. The artwork is beautiful and the entries are thoughtful and inspiring.
For the RSS feed:
http://kalman.blogs.nytimes.com/feed/
