ON DICTIONARIES
ONE OF MY more obscure secondhand bookshop acquisitions was a French-Greek dictionary. It’s not completely useless, as I know a little French, albeit much less Greek. Perusing it got me … Continue reading
PULSE OXIMETER NEWS
COVID-19 OXYGENATION ASPECTS have familiarized many people with the pulse oximeter, a little clothespin gizmo that attaches to one’s fingertip to measure pulse and blood oxygen level. An informative summary … Continue reading
SCIENTIFIC BREAKTHROUGH: REPUBLICANS EVOLVE TO HAVE SPINES IN LESS THAN 24 HOURS!
“EVOLUTION IS CHANGE in the heritable characteristics of biological populations over successive generations,” this, according to Wikipedia. In ordinary times, these changes take eons to evolve. However, as you might … Continue reading
INCREASINGLY BOHEMIAN BOHÈMES PART 2
PUCCINI’S LA BOHÈME has been a recurring opera here at SimanaitisSays. Yesterdays’s Part 1 described its 1977 TV premiere; “Create One’s Own La Bohème” was D.I.Y. Today in Part 2, … Continue reading
INCREASINGLY BOHEMIAN BOHÈMES PART 1
OPERA IS ALIVE and well. I recently enjoyed three remotely viewed productions of Giacomo Puccini’s La Bohème, one from 1977, another from 1981, and the third—the most bohemian—a 2020 production. … Continue reading
COMMUTING, DINING AL FRESCO, AND COVID-19
THESE, OF COURSE, ARE evolving times. Here are recent pandemic-related tidbits on everything from buses, to al fresco dining, to pedestrian-only zones. Automotive News occasionally includes a Shift supplement to … Continue reading
GAIA’S EVOLUTIONARY LEAPS PART 2
YESTERDAY WE SHARED tidbits from “Our Cyborg Progeny,” a review of James Lovelock’s Novacene: The Coming Age of Hyperintelligence, in London Review of Books, January 7, 2021. Today in Part … Continue reading
GAIA’S EVOLUTIONARY LEAPS PART 1
MEEHAM CRIST’S ARTICLE “Our Cyborg Progeny,” The London Review of Books, January 7, 2021, is thought-provoking, enlightening, and entertaining. Even by LRB standards, at 4634 words it’s a lengthy piece. … Continue reading
FATHER KNOX’S RULES—AND HOAX
FATHER RONALD KNOX was an English theologian with fascinating credentials: an Anglican priest who converted to Roman Catholicism, a famed Sherlockian, and a perpetrator of a hoax that predated Orson … Continue reading
NEW CAR NEWS
THIS NEW YEAR’S SimanaitisSays is appropriately Janus-like. It looks back at late-2020 Automotive News tidbits and looks forward to the future of the automobile. And, as leavening agent, these tidbits … Continue reading
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