MOTHER NATURE GIVES THE GREEN FINGER TO TRUMP’S “AMERICAN FLAG BLUE” PART 2
THIS ALL STARTED WITH TRUMP WANTING TO IMPROVE the National Reflecting Pool in Washington, D.C. (He’s not the first who’s tried: See “Trump Falsely Claims Obama and Biden Spent Hundreds … Continue reading
MOTHER NATURE GIVES THE GREEN FINGER TO TRUMP’S “AMERICAN FLAG BLUE” PART 1
IN PARTS 1 AND 2 TODAY AND TOMORROW, here’s proof positive that Mother Nature knows more than Donald J. Trump. (And who’s surprised?) The Reflecting Tool Debacle. Maxine Joselow describes … Continue reading
AUTOMOTIVE NEWS—AND OCCASIONAL HIJINKS
I USTA PERUSE MY WEEKLY AUTOMOTIVE NEWS for industry trends and scuttlebutt, but one of the benefits of retirement is being able to focus on automotive tidbits, nuggets, and hijinks. … Continue reading
EUROPE’S LAST PAGANS PART 2
WE BEGAN GLEANING TIDBITS YESTERDAY from Diarmaid MacCulloch’s “Fighting Monks,” his LRB review of two books concerning the Baltic region’s delayed Christianity. Today, we pick up with a tale of … Continue reading
EUROPE’S LAST PAGANS PART 1
I AM A FIRM BELIEVER IN THE SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE. In fact, to quote an early wit, I liken myself to a flying buttress: I support Holy Mother … Continue reading
TALES OF A LADY’S HAT AND ANOTHER LADY’S HANDWRITING
A RECENT BIT OF SATIRE FROM ANDY BOROWITZ REMINDS ME OF A JOKE from more than five decades ago. Background. This brouhaha erupted several days ago when Neil Vigdor reported, … Continue reading
HOW TO SAY “VROOM” IN VULGATE LATIN? PART 2
FASCINATING IMAGES—ONE FEATURING POPE LEO XIV—attracted me to the Ferrari Luce. Today in Part 2, Automotive News’s Luca Ciferri reports on this car’s redefining ultrahigh performancee for the prancing horse. … Continue reading
HOW TO SAY “VROOM” IN VULGATE LATIN? PART 1
AN INTERESTING, IF UNEXPECTED, JUXTAPOSITION OF ARTICLES appeared in my Automotive News recently: One is titled “No V-12 Rumble for Ferrari’s New EV, But the Sounds of 1,050 Electric Horsepower,” … Continue reading
MATHEMATICS, A.I., AND THE LEIDEN DECLARATION PART 2
YESTERDAY IN PART 1, WE FOCUSED ON OpenAI’s achievement in disproving a previous conjecture in combinatorial geometry. Today, we continue Siobhan Roberts’ analysis of the Leiden Declaration, a response by … Continue reading
MATHEMATICS, A.I., AND THE LEIDEN DECLARATION PART 1
MATHEMATICIANS RECENTLY ZOOMED with Siobhan Roberts who writes “As A.I. Makes Strides in Mathematics, Mathematicians Urge Caution,” The New York Times, June 2, 2026. She sets the stage by recounting, … Continue reading
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