BAEDEKER’S, MURRAY’S, AND MY MEDITERRANEAN PART 2
YESTERDAY’S MEDITERRANEAN COASTAL adventure began at Barcelona and referenced classic Baedeker’s and Murray’s guidebooks. Today in Part 2 we visit Marseilles, Nice, and Èze on our way to Monaco. Marseilles. … Continue reading
BAEDEKER’S, MURRAY’S, AND MY MEDITERRANEAN PART 1
I LOVE COASTLINES. The beauty of California’s Route 1. The panoramas of Italy’s Amalfi Coast. And then there’s the coastline of the Mediterranean, as exemplified by Baedeker’s, Murray’s, and my … Continue reading
GEORGE BOOLE—GRANDFATHER OF OUR INFORMATION AGE PART 1
COMPUTERS DO NOTHING MORE than count on two fingers very quickly: Computer logic assigns 1 or 0 respectively to truth or falsity in the on/off presence of an electrical current. … Continue reading
COLDPLAY COMBATS CO2
THE ENGLISH ROCK BAND Coldplay plans a sustainability-enhanced 2022 world tour, with a pledge to cut CO2 emissions by 50 percent compared with that of their 2016-2017 tour. Ben Beaumont-Thomas … Continue reading
ARISTOPHANES AND HIP-HOP PART 2
I RECENTLY GOT HOOKED on the plays of Aristophanes because of Emily Wilson’s fine article “Punishment by Radish,” in London Review of Books, appearing in print October 21, 2021. Here … Continue reading
ARISTOPHANES AND HIP-HOP PART 1
OLD COMEDY OF the ancient Greeks should not be confused with their Tragedy. I learned this tidbit while reading Emily Wilson’s “Punishment by Radish,” in London Review of Books, to … Continue reading
HENRY N. MANNEY III AND THE BROOKLANDS RILEY
SALON FEATURES IN R&T were generally of three types: the purely historical (“…and then on the morning of August 17, 1927, …”), the first-person tentative (“I might have driven this … Continue reading
CHARGED UP ABOUT SWITCHING TO EVS
AUTOMOTIVE NEWS, OCTOBER 4, 2021, carried a provocative page 1 story by Michael Martinez: “Ford Isn’t Waiting—It’s All In On EVs.” “When Ford Motor Co. introduced the F-150 Lightning in … Continue reading
FOILING THE MOB—JACQUES-LOUIS DAVID’S LAVOISIER PORTRAIT PART 2
WHEN WE LEFT Antoine and Marie-Anne Lavoisier in Part 1, they were pursuing joint research in the new chemistry. Alas, the French Revolution was coming. A Couple’s Portrait. In 1788, … Continue reading
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GEORGE BOOLE—GRANDFATHER OF OUR INFORMATION AGE PART 2
YESTERDAY, WE SAW Englishman George Boole progress gradually from a “petty shopkeeper’s son” to an aspiring mathematician. His The Mathematical Analysis of Logic, 1847, become a core of pure mathematics, … Continue reading →