PEDALIN’ IT ALL OVER TOWN
R&T CALLED IT “the lightest, most compact and most economical Maserati we have ever tested.” This and the following images from R&T, April 1974. It was fifty years ago, and … Continue reading
THERE’S A WORD FOR IT—THOUGH NOT IN ENGLISH
MARIKA PRICE SPITULSKI SHARES “16 Heartwarming Words and Phrases That Don’t Have an English Equivalent,” in Nice News, April 27, 2024. Here’s a selection of them, some new to me … Continue reading
THE GREENEST CARS OF 2024—OVERALL
EACH YEAR THE AMERICAN COUNCIL for an Energy-Efficient Economy ranks cars on an overall measure. Not just the energy used in their propulsion, but also that employed in their manufacture … Continue reading
FONTS CAN SAVE TREES
“HARPERCOLLINS MADE A TINY TWEAK to its Book Design—and Has Saved Thousands of Trees as a Result,” reports Elizabeth Segran in the Fast Company website, April 2, 2024. What’s more, … Continue reading
EV POLE-TO-POLE!
A TECHNOLOGY REPORT IN SAE International Automotive Engineering, April 2024, caught my eye: Cami Buchholz’ “All-Electric Nissan Ariya Handles Ultra-cold Temps on Pole to Pole Trek.” What’s this? What about … Continue reading
SNACKIN’ ‘ROUND THE GLOBE
DAUGHTER SUZ RECEIVED A NEAT-O GIFT from a friend: a subscription to Universal Yums, a company that can provide a box of snacks from a particular foreign country each month. … Continue reading
THE PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
THERE’S IRONY TO BE HAD in my having a Ph.D. in mathematics. This is at least in part because I spent the majority of my career working in automotive journalism, … Continue reading
DALÍ DIALING
“YOU’VE GOT SALVADOR DALÍ ON LINE ONE.” Ask Dalí at the Dalí Museum in St. Petersburg, Florida. Image by Martin Pagh Ludvigsen/Goodby Siverstein & Partners via NPR. Details are given … Continue reading
PEKING TO PARIS—1907
THE CHALLENGE WAS SET by the Paris newspaper Le Matin on January 31, 1907: “What needs to be proved today is that as long as a man has a car, … Continue reading
TIMEKEEPING—OBJECTIVE, GEOMETRIC, NUMERICAL, FRACTIONAL, DIGITAL
THE SANDS OF TIME ARE ONLY ONE way we describe its passage. The positions of stars and angled points of a sundial are geometric. We have numerals: “three fifty-two.” Also, … Continue reading
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