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WHAT IS CLASSICAL MUSIC?
COMPOSER/CONDUCTOR MATTHEW AUCOIN ASKS “Do You Actually Know What Classical Music Is? Does Anyone?,” The Atlantic, April 15, 2025. This captures my eye because I include classical among my musical...
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CARS OF THE STARS REDUX AGAIN
THE 1934 FLICK THE GAY DIVORCEE DESERVES an award among car enthusiasts: Not only does it feature three of the era’s classic automobiles, but one of them was actually owned by one of the movie’s...
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GRANDE SEMAINE D’AVIATION DE LA CHAMPAGNE, 1909
IT WAS LESS THAN SIX YEARS after the Wright Bros. first flew ever so tentatively at Kitty Hawk that the world celebrated heavier-than-air craft at the Grande Semaine d’Aviation de la Champagne near...
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SEE THAT AGAIN
KATRINA MILLER WRITES IN THE NEW YORK TIMES, June 26, 2025, “The Best Illusion of the Year contest offers researchers, and participants, an opportunity to explore the gaps and limits of human...
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COMPLEXITIES OF CAFE COMPLIANCE FEES PART 1
HEADLINES IN THE NEW YORK TIMES, July 26, 2025, are provocative: “Republicans Propose a New Way to Scrap Fuel Economy Rules: No Fines.” Brad Plumer and Jack Ewing report, “For 50 years, automakers...
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COMPLEXITIES OF CAFE COMPLIANCE FEES PART 2
YESTERDAY WE BEGAN ANALYZING Corporate Average Fuel Economy standards and their encouraging average mpgs from 13.5 to more than double that today. In Part 2 we continue—and close with a Tesla profit...
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TRUMP’S SCIENCE AND FeS2
IRON PYRITE, FeS2, OF COURSE, IS “FOOL’S GOLD.” And a recent editorial in the American Association for the Advancement of Science Science magazine describes the phoniness of Trump’s Executive Order...
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ALFA ROMEO CORSA SPERIMENTALE “BALENA” PART 1
HERE’S YET ANOTHER REASON WHY CLASSIC & SPORTS CAR is a favorite automotive magazine: Mick Walsh’s online article about the Alfa Romeo 8C-2900B Corsa Sperimentale. Argentine enthusiasts nicknamed...
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ALFA ROMEO CORSA SPERIMENTALE “BALENA” PART 2
YESTERDAY IN PART 1, CLASSIC & SPORTS CAR’S MICK WALSH introduced us to a one-off Alfa Romeo, his article reminding me why Classic & Sports Car is a favorite motoring magazine. Today in Part...
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“JUST BECAUSE I’M A LIBRARIAN DOESN’T MEAN I HAVE TO DRESS AS ONE”—BELLE DA...
THE LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS, JUNE 26, 2025, BLURBS Francesca Wade’s “The Best-Paid Woman in NYC.” Wade is reviewing two books, Belle Da Costa Greene: A Librarian’s Legacy and Becoming Belle Da Costa...
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NATURE’S DYNAMIC COLORATION, TRANPARENCY, AND THERMAL MANAGEMENT
MATTHEW D. SHAWKEY OFFERS A PROVOCATIVE TITLE “Now You See Me, Now You Don’t,” in AAAS Science magazine, June 26, 2025: “Some squids,” Shawkey recounts, “are masters of disguise. They can change not...
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EV CARSICKNESS
ARE YOU SICK OF YOUR TESLA? No, not just because of that chainsaw-wielding DOGE guy. I’m talking about EVs in general making people increasingly carsick. Here are tidbits on this phenomenon gleaned...
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WE’RE ALL CHARLIE BROWN, SORTA
CHRIS CARRA IS SPOT-ON WHEN HE DESCRIBES “How the Beloved ‘Peanuts’ Found Its Way to Define the Modern Comic Strip,” Smithsonian, July August 2025: Carra writes, “With poignant wisdom and gentle wit,...
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LEIBNITZ’S BOWLING PINS AND INFINITY
STEVEN STROGATZ WRITES ABOUT “BOWLING FOR NOBELS,” The New York Times, June 30, 2025. One of his topics: triangular numbers as exemplified by objects arranged in perfect equilateral triangles....
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SONO TUTTI BUGIARDI PART 1
I MAY WELL BE MISQUOTING (after all, it’s almost 50 years ago), but my editorial mentor Larry Givens at the Society of Automotive Engineers cited his father believing “Sono tutti bugiardi,” “They’re...
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SONO TUTTI BUGIARDI PART 2
YESTERDAY IN PART 1, WE TRACED TRUMP MENDACITY, from the seemingly inconsequential (“architectural envy”) to the profound (his worldwide dissolving Voice of America truth). Today, we start with his...
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HURRAH FOR THE ACLU! HURRAH FOR CLASS ACTION!
LET’S APPLAUD THE AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION! Never has its activism been more critical. Zach Montague and Pat Grossmith’s article “Judge Blocks Trump’s Citizenship Order in Class-Action...
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HYPIN’ HOLMES REDUX PART 1
DR. JOHN H. WATSON HAD A CRACKIN’ GOOD literary agent Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. How else to explain the numerous ad placements about the World’s First Consulting Detective? Several of these have already...
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HYPIN’ HOLMES REDUX PART 2
YESTERDAY IN PART 1, WE DISCUSSED THE WORLD’S FIRST CONSULTING DETECTIVE and his appearance in advertising. We continue here with thirst-quenching themes. Holmes, Gin, And What’s That Building?...
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