By Vin Narayanan As a child, I was obsessed with Greek mythology. I spent endless summers reading about the Greek gods. Zeus, Athena, Hercules, Poseidon – I couldn’t get enough of them!
One of my favorite stories from Greek mythology is the tale of Icarus. Icarus was the son of Daedalus. Daedalus was a famed master craftsman in Greece. And at the request (read: order) of Crete’s King Minos, Daedalus built a labyrinth to imprison a minotaur (half-man, half-bull). But because Minos didn’t want anyone to know the secret of the labyrinth, he imprisoned Daedalus and Icarus.
So Daedalus did what inventors do. He figured …read more
