BAYREUTH EXULTATIONS—AND BLUES
“WILL THE REAL BAYREUTH PLEASE STAND OUT,” SimanaitisSays, March 27, 2016, offered details of the Richard-Wagner-Festspielhaus. Here, a decade later in celebrating Bayreuth’s 150th anniversary, Opera with Opera News offers … Continue reading
EDUCATING US ALL ABOUT A.I. PART 2
IN PART 1, CHANCELLOR MARIE LYNN MIRANDA’S Science Editorial promoted educating us all about optimizing our use of A.I. Today in Part 2, we offer examples of why this is … Continue reading
EDUCATING US ALL ABOUT A.I. PART 1
“THE GREATEST RISK is not that A.I. will eliminate jobs, but that its benefits will accrue unevenly.” This, writes Marie Lynn Miranda, Chancellor of the University of Illinois, Chicago, in … Continue reading
SCOUT THE SCAM!
THANKS TO ANNABELLE MILLER, AN AMBASSADOR GIRL SCOUT of Greater Los Angeles, “Scout the Scam” enriches our knowledge of three crucial things: A.I. images, cookies, and online scams. This and … Continue reading
ON PLASTICS PART 2
YESTERDAY, ZOË SCHLANGER’S REVIEW OF BETH GARDINER’S PLASTIC INC got us ankle-deep in plastic bits. Today we explore the environmental aspects of this, quite apart from the squishiness. Health Aspects. … Continue reading
ON PLASTICS PART 1
TWO QUITE DISSIMILAR THINGS got me thinking about plastics: The first was “The Japanese Have A Word For It,” here at SimanaitisSays, April 3, 2026. The particular word is mottainai … Continue reading
IN INCREASED FAVOR OF INVOKING THE 25TH AMENDMENT
EACH DAY BRINGS MORE EVIDENCE that any freely rational human being would recognize the mental incompetence of Donald J. Trump. Recently, we’ve seen his irrational and obscene Easter Message, his … Continue reading
RAFFLES—A SINGAPORE HOTEL, A HOLMES INVERSION PART 2
YESTERDAY, OUR FIRST RAFFLES TIDBITS were about a fabled Singapore hotel. Today we focus on A.J. Raffles, a sorta fictional anti-Holmes—but, indeed, with an intimate connection: E.W. Hornung, author of … Continue reading
RAFFLES—A SINGAPORE HOTEL, A HOLMES INVERSION PART 1
THIS CONNECT-THE-DOTS TALE IN PARTS 1 AND 2 today and tomorrow begins with yet another Raffles: Stamford Raffles is described by Wikipedia as “a British colonial official who served as … Continue reading
I REALLY LIKE THAT SONG TOO, FROGGIE
HERE’S A TANTALIZING TITLE FOR A TECHNICAL PAPER: “Humans Share Acoustic Preferences With Other Animals,” by Logan S. James et al., AAAS Science, March 19, 2026. Science editor Sacha Vignieri … Continue reading
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