Da Vinci

Image: Wizards of the CoastThis is shaping up to be a huge year for Magic: The Gathering, and over the weekend Wizards of the Coast took to Chicago for MagicCon, revealing a look at a ton of new cards on the horizon—including big crossovers like Fallout and Assassin’s Creed, and brand new worlds in the Magic multiverse. The Fallout set, due out in a few weeks, served as the main bulk of attention as Wizards unveiled cards from across the four Commander decks that are the basis for the set, pulling on not just the more…

A team of engineers studying the 500-year-old, backwardwritings of Leonardo da Vinci have found evidence that the Italian polymath was working out gravity a century before its foundations were established by Galileo Galilei.The team’s findings come from a revisit of the Codex Arundel, a compilation of documents written by da Vinci that detail various experiments and personal notes taken down in the latter 40 years of his life. The codex is freely accessible online courtesy of the British Museum. The team’s research is…