TIDBITS FROM AAAS
THE AAAS, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and its weekly Science magazine share knowledge with an audience broader than readers of pure scientific journals. These tidbits gleaned … Continue reading
MOVING THE WATER FOR FUN AND PROFIT PART 2
THIS ALL started yesterday with my watching the Jack Nicholson/Faye Dunaway movie Chinatown and Wife Dottie’s photo of the Pontcysyllte Aqueduct. Here in Part 2, we’ll see whether the flick … Continue reading
MOVING THE WATER FOR FUN AND PROFIT PART 1
THESE TIDBITS grew from my watching the Jack Nicholson/Faye Dunaway flick Chinatown and, coincidently, unearthing a photo by Wife Dottie of the Pontcysylite Aqueduct in northeast Wales. That is, the … Continue reading
TRUCK DRIVERS’ DESK SET PART 2
YESTERDAY IN Part 1, we considered a link between drivers of diesel rigs at the modern Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach and a 62-year-old Katharine Hepburn/Spencer Tracy comedy. … Continue reading
TRUCK DRIVERS’ DESK SET PART 1
IN A RATHER indirect way, today’s truck drivers’ dilemma with automation appeared in the silver screen 62 years ago in the Katharine Hepburn/Spencer Tracy movie Desk Set. There’s even a … Continue reading
GMAX REVISITED—THREE AND 108 YEARS LATER
GMAX SOFTWARE is an example of CAD, computer-aided design. Indeed, it’s a simplified sibling of Autodesk 3ds Max, a professional 3D computer graphics program. Autodesk calls 3ds Max its “3D … Continue reading
THE RIGHT TO DRIVE
THE NEW YORKER, April 30, 2019, published a fireworks of an article online in M.R. O’Conner’s “The Fight for the Right to Drive.” I use the “fireworks” metaphor because of … Continue reading
POP OUT-OF-THE-BOX IS TOPS!
PACIFIC OPERA PROJECT is a Southern California opera company known for its innovative productions. POP is faithful to opera tradition, but with out-of-the-box thinking that delights and enhances this classical … Continue reading
TIDBITS FROM AUTOMOTIVE NEWS
THE FOLLOWING AUTOMOTIVE tidbits aren’t indicative of important trends, compelling gossip, or breakthrough technology. They’re just things I found interesting in recent issues of Automotive News, the weekly journal of … Continue reading
RARE EARTH PRODUCTION—NIMBY
RARE EARTHS, DESPITE their name, are ubiquitous in mobile phones, computer hard drives, automotive catalytic converters, and other features of modern life. Back in 2016, “As Rare As… Earth?” here … Continue reading
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