MUSIC FOR MOVIES PART 1
IS MOVIE MUSIC merely innocuous background or does it actively further the plot? My answer, briefly, is “it depends.” Here, in Parts 1 and 2 today and tomorrow, are tidbits … Continue reading
GMAX TUPOLEV ANT-25 PART 2
YESTERDAY IN PART 1, my GMax mania returned, this time in building a Microsoft Flight Simulator model of the Tupolev ANT-25 long-distance record setter. Or were its Moscow/U.S. West Coast … Continue reading
GMAX TUPOLEV ANT-25 PART 1
MY GMAX MANIA continues. After having incorporated just about every documentable detail into my GMax Westland Lysander, I looked around for another project using this entertaining computer software. Years ago, … Continue reading
FROM TABLET TO SCROLL TO CODEX TO BOOK
WE THINK OF books as being on particular topics. Even anthologies have a common theme: mysteries, short stories, and the like. But it wasn’t always that way. Here are tidbits … Continue reading
MATH WORDS PART 2
MUCH OF “THEORETICAL” mathematics finds application in other areas of science, as seen here yesterday in Math Words Part 1. More tidbits gleaned from AAAS Science magazine, September 20, 2019, … Continue reading
MATHEMATICAL WORDS PART 1
“ANOTHER DAY with No Use for Calculus” reads a humorous, if inaccurate, t-shirt slogan. In fact, calculus is the mathematics of analyzing motion. So, in a sense, unless you’re utterly … Continue reading
ON DENISOVANS PART 2
YESTERDAY, THE DISCUSSION was on Neanderthals and Denisovans, branches of human evolution who didn’t quite make it. I also cited a mild preference for Denis as my given name. Today, … Continue reading
ON DENISOVANS PART 1
IF I HAD it to do over, I might spell my given name with one “n.” This is partly to honor the Denisovans, close cousins of the Neanderthals and, thus, … Continue reading
LIZZIE’S FRIEND BARBARA PART 2
BARBARA AND TONY Bertram ran a British Intelligence “secret house” for French Resistance operatives during World War II. Her memoirs, French Resistance in Sussex, recount “the excitement, anxiety and love … Continue reading
LIZZIE’S FRIEND BARBARA PART 1
IN RESEARCHING THE Westland “Lizzie” Lysander, I learned about Barbara Bertram. During World War II, she and her husband Major Anthony Bertram lived in Bignor, a tiny Sussex village not … Continue reading
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