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MORE (CLEAN) ENERGY TO YA
“HOW DOES YOUR STATE MAKE ELECTRICITY,” asks Nadja Popovich in The New York Times, August 2, 2024. What’s more, she provides the answers in a most illustrative way. Here are tidbits gleaned from the...
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SOUTHEAST MUSINGS
THE DISCOVERER BLOG’S “10 ESSENTIAL STOPS Along the Southeastern Coast” rekindled memories of my own touring down that way. Several of these have already appeared here at SimanaitisSays, but I’d like...
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HORATIO’S TRIBUTE AND A RAYMOND CHANDLER FALSE LEAD
WHAT’S THE LINK BETWEEN Horatio’s last words in Shakespeare’s Hamlet and Harry Jones’s final misleading in Raymond Chandler’s The Big Sleep? This is the sort of thing that pops into my mind when I...
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I WAS READING WITTGENSTEIN THE OTHER DAY….
WELL, YES, SO MUCH FOR that boastful opening. What I mean to say is that I was reading an article about Austrian philosopher Ludvig Wittgenstein in the London Review of Books, August 1, 2024: A.W....
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THE NECKER CUBE, ESCHER ILLOS, AND A CUBED CUBE
YESTERDAY IN “I Was Reading Wittgenstein the Other Day….,” LRB reviewer A.W. Moore cited “the two ways of seeing a Necker cube” appearing in Wittgenstein’s Proposition 5.5423. Though this cube was new...
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F-JR FUN—ENJOYING AN ELVA AND AN ENVOY PART 1
“FORMULA JUNIOR IS AN OPEN-WHEEL RACING class,” Wikipedia describes, “first adopted in October 1958 by the CSI (International Sporting Commission, the part of the FIA that then regulated...
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F-JR FUN—ENJOYING AN ELVA AND AN ENVOY PART 2
YESTERDAY, WE SHARED MECHANICAL DETAILS of the Formula Junior Elva and Envoy gleaned from R&T June 1960 and February 1961 respectively. Today in Part 2, we read what the era’s R&T staffers...
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KEEPING KEWL BOTH WITH AND WITHOUT VAPOR COMPRESSION PART 1
MY AUGUST 2, 2024, ISSUE OF AAAS SCIENCE has “Sizing Up Caloric Devices,” by Suxin Qian and Ichiro Takeuchi. Its subtitle is also eye-catching: “Emerging solid-state cooling technologies may help...
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KEEPING KEWL WITH AND WITHOUT VAPOR COMPRESSION PART 2
THIS ALL BEGAN WITH LEARNING ABOUT solid-state refrigerants as described in “Sizing Up Caloric Devices,” AAAS Science, August 2, 2024. Today in Part 2, three types of solid-state devices offer...
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1960 FERRARI 250 GT COUPE—A (SUBTLE) EXOTIC
LAMBORGHINIS, FERRARIS, MID-ENGINE VETTES—and even the occasional neo Bugatti—are seen today here in Orange County, California. There’s no mistaking their exotic nature. Add a classic 1960 Ferrari 250...
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WORDS GONE POLITICALLY AWRY
WE USED TO HAVE SPECIAL WORDS: “MUGWUMPS,” for example, were politicos who needlessly wavered, a marvelously illustrative word. These days, the MAGAs have been less imaginative lexicographically:...
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UNEXPECTED RECOLLECTIONS PART 1
MEMORIES ARE OFT REKINDLED quite routinely. Such as reading Corey Kilgannon’s “WCBS Radio, the Soundtrack of Countless Cab Rides, Goes Quiet,” in The New York Times, August 13, 2024. Hmm… For awhile...
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UNEXPECTED RECOLLECTIONS PART 2
YESTERDAY, WE LAMENTED WITH NEW YORKERS the news that “WCBS Radio, the Soundtrack of Countless Cab Rides, Goes Quiet.” Today in Part 2, one of the station’s early DJs Bill Randle made a name for...
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CANALS TO BE SAVORED
THE DISCOVERER BLOG offers “9 Canal Rides You Have to Take,” three of which I’ve already enjoyed—and one that Discoverer missed but could well have included. Here are tidbits about them all, including...
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RUPERT MURDOCH COWERS FROM NEW COMPETITOR
IT’S A SUBTEXT OF BENJAMIN MULLIN’S New York Times article, August 16, 2024, “No Joke: The Onion Thinks Print is the Future of Media” that has Murdoch’s Fox Corp fearing a real challenger: Mullin...
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THE LA4’S VIRTUAL GRANDNEPHEW FROM RFPRO PART 1
SEBASTIAN BLANCO REPORTS IN SAE INTERNATIONAL’S AUTOMOTIVE ENGINEERING magazine, August 2024, “Simulation company rFpro has already mapped over 180 digital locations around the world, including public...
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THE LA4’S VIRTUAL GRANDNEPHEW FROM RFPRO PART 2
YESTERDAY, SAE’S SEBASTIAN BLANCO described rFpro’s massively detailed 22-mile digital loop of southwest Los Angeles. I sensed a kinship to the LA4, this city’s downtown route that evolved into EPA’s...
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MESOPOTAMIAN STEW, SORTA PART 1
THERE’S INTELLECTUAL SATISFACTION in communing with past civilizations. Maybe it’s the grandeur of Rome’s Pantheon or the serenity of Kamakura’s Daibutsu. Or the culinary comfort of “What the...
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MESOPOTAMIAN STEW, SORTA PART 2
YESTERDAY A BBC Item on 4000-Year-Old Recipes caught my eye—and taste buds. What about making a Mesopotamian stew? Cuneiform recipe. Image from The World That Was. The recipe, translated from...
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AUTO TIDBITS—EV COOLANTS GO ROGUE, A FERRARI EXEC FOILS A DEEP FAKE, MUSK...
I CONTINUE TO READ AUTOMOTIVE NEWS as the best way to keep up with an industry that used to occupy me 24/7 for 33+ years. These days, I merely glean for tidbits, of which there are a’plenty. The Boss...
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