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BELINDA MULROONEY—HOSPITALITY QUEEN OF THE KLONDIKE PART 1
IT’S OFT OBSERVED THAT real wealth in gold rushes came not to the pick-and-shovelers, but rather to the entrepreneurs selling these utensils. Smithsonian Magazine‘s Melanie Haiken offers an...
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BELINDA MULROONEY—KLONDIKE QUEEN OF HOSPITALITY PART 2
YESTERDAY, SMITHSONIAN’S MELANIE HAIKEN BEGAN “a swashbuckling story… that saw Mulrooney help build a city, make and lose several fortunes, and leave a lasting legacy as a Yukon pioneer.” Today in...
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HILL-AND-DALE VERSUS SIDE-TO-SIDE
A RESURGING INTEREST IN VINYL brings up the fascinating origins of recorded sound—and its two rivals Thomas Edison and Emile Berliner. My principal source for these tidbits is Lenny Lipton’s The...
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RFK JR AND FLUORIDATION—AAAS COMMENTS PART 1
PUTTING RFK JR. IN CHARGE OF PUBLIC HEALTH, to some of us, may seem darkly satirical given his brain-worm, whale-head, bear-corpse, and anti-vaccine proclivities, not to say other batshit conspiracy...
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RFK JR. AND FLUORIDATION—AAAS COMMENTS PART 2
YESTERDAY, WE LINKED INTO THE AAAS MEMBER COMMUNITY discussing RFK Jr. and his potential elimination of fluoridation in our drinking water. Today in Part 2 we continued sharing this cogent discourse....
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CELEBRATING JIM FRENCH’S MEETING OF THE MINDS
I RECENTLY ENJOYED (YET AGAIN) A PARTICULAR HARRY NILE adventure, one of Jim French’s Imagination Theatre productions out of Seattle. These radio programs were originally broadcast 1976–2010 in a...
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JAG XK-E: “THE FINEST CRUMPET COLLECTOR KNOWN TO MAN”—HENRY N. MANNEY III
WITHIN THE CONTEXT OF 1961, what better recommendation could a car be given? R&T was rather more PC in noting, “The car comes up to, and exceeds, all our great expectations.” Here are tidbits...
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ON VACATIONING GRANDPARENTS
THE DAILY PASSPORT WEBSITE got me thinking about “7 Places Your Grandparents Loved to Vacation.” Indeed, I don’t recall hearing of my grandparents ever vacationing. But let’s talk about them and glean...
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RESIDING IN THE THIRTIES, SORTA PART 1
THANKS TO TURNER CLASSIC MOVIES, part of me seems to reside in the 1930s. Recently, I’ve enjoyed Dinner at Eight, 1933; Transatlantic Tunnel; 1935, and Broadway Melody of 1936, 1935. Quite a variety...
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RESIDING IN THE THIRTIES, SORTA PART 2
YESTERDAY WHAT A WIDOW! was identified as a first of 1930s’ movies with architecturally significant set design. Today in Part 2, Donald Albrecht’s book Designing Dream: Modern Architecture in the...
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TOO HOT TO FAN? PART 1
I LEARNED AN IMPORTANT LESSON in pre-air-conditioned, pre-climate-change Sowinski Elementary School, Cleveland, Ohio, when our teacher taught us not to bother fanning ourselves on a hot day: The...
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TOO HOT TO FAN? PART 2
TODAY IN PART 2, WE CONTINUE TIDBITS gleaned from Warren Cornwall’s AAAS SCIENCE “When is it Too Hot to Use a Fan?” It turns out it’s more than just the heat…. The NEJM Methodology. “To test these...
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RADIO FOLKS IN THE MOVIES
GIVEN MY DUAL APPRECIATION OF old-time radio (via SiriusXM “Radio Classics”) and old-time movies (via Turner Classic Movies), it’s not surprising that I find occasional delight in the latter...
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KALININ K-7—A GMAX CHALLENGE PART 1
I’VE NOTED THAT GMAX computer modeling of aircraft is a fine hobby, with several recent examples displayed here at SimanaitisSays: the Cessna XMC, the Consolidated PBY, and the Santos=Dumont...
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KALININ K-7—A GMAX CHALLENGE PART 2
UNLIKE KONSTANTIN KALININ, I CAN HONESTLY SAY Josef Stalin did not force me to build a Kalinin K-7. This, despite my usual GMax avoidance of such ungainly craft. On the other hand, how many airplanes...
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PUTTING SCIENCE IN PERSPECTIVE
MARCIA MCNUTT IS PRESIDENT OF THE U.S. Academy of Sciences (and, from 2013 to 2016, editor-in-chief of AAAS Science journals including this magazine). Marcia Kemper McNutt, Minneapolis-born 1952,...
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SPRITE II OUTGROWS ITS BUGEYES—AND MORE
A CURIOUS THING ABOUT R&T’S August 1961 road test of the Sprite II is the magazine’s complete omission of the name Austin-Healey. Variously the car’s BMC allegiance is noted, but otherwise it’s...
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WHOM—AND WHAT—DO I TRUST?
IN THESE DAYS OF RAMPANT MIS- AND DISINFORMATION, what sources should we trust? And, note well, we don’t necessarily have to agree with these sources, but rather put faith in the veracity of whatever...
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OF THEE I SING—A POLITICAL SATIRE
THE GOINGS-ON OF THE PRE-PRESIDENT and his Project 2025-inspired bunch of whackos display elements of Theatre of the Absurd considerably beyond that of mere satire. With this in mind, though, it would...
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CYBERTHUGS
NOT THAT I’M SEEKING THINGS to worry about in the coming Trump administration, but our past-and-pre-President has already declared enthusiasm for cryptocurrency: “I’m laying out my plan,” he says, “to...
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