SCIENCE (AND GENERATIVE A.I.) IN ACTION
THIS ALL STARTED WITH AN INTERESTING LITTLE ITEM in the “News” section of AAAS Science magazine, May 3, 2024. Its heading read “Physiology: All Dog Noses Are Created Equal.” And … Continue reading
JAGUAR R1 FORMULA 1 CAR—VIRTUAL TESTING PART 2
YESTERDAY WE BEGAN ANALYSIS of the Jaguar R1 Formula 1 race car, as described in R&T’s March 2001 telemetry-based virtual track test. Today in Part 2 we continue with bits … Continue reading
JAGUAR R1 FORMULA 1 CAR—VIRTUAL TESTING PART 1
BY THE MILLENNIUM, TELEMETRY had become firmly embedded into Formula 1. And in the year 2000, F1 had its inaugural United Grand Prix at Indianapolis Motor Speedway (not to be … Continue reading
CALL ME ANYTHING BUT NOT LATE FOR DINNER
I AGED TEN YEARS MOMENTARILY in reading the Social Security Administration’s list of most popular baby names for 2023. Quickly, though, matters got back to what passes for normal in … Continue reading
ALOHA, HOALOHA
HAWAIIAN IS AN OFFICIAL LANGUAGE of our 50th state; so is English. (The only other U.S. states with multiple official languages are Alaska including 20 Alaska Native tongues and South … Continue reading
SLEUTHING LEONARDO’S BACKGROUND
DALYA ALBERGE WRITES in The Guardian, May 11, 2024, “Mystery of Where Mona Lisa Was Painted Has Been Solved, Geologist Claims.” Alberge recounts, “The landscape behind Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona … Continue reading
WHATS GOIN ON AT ST MARYS WALK? OR WATERSTONES? OR VONS?
JENNY GROSS WRITES IN THE NEW YORK TIMES, May 10, 2024, “An English Town Drops Apostrophes From Street Signs. Some Aren’t Happy.” “Malcolm Wood, an English teacher in North Yorkshire, … Continue reading
DISSIN’ FOR FUN
BACK IN OCTOBER 2022, MY BOOK REVIEW of Colin Jarman’s Barbed Quotes: Mudslinging, Backstabbing, and Celebrity Dishing offered only one quote concerning politicians. I guess I thought Trump would just … Continue reading
THE SANTOS=DUMONT DEMOISELLE PART 2
BIOGRAPHICAL DETAILS OF ALBERTO SANTOS=DUMONT were offered in Part 1 yesterday. Today we focus on the 1908 Demoiselle, his last aeroplane design and my latest GMax project. An Ur-Ultralight. Quite … Continue reading
THE SANTOS=DUMONT DEMOISELLE PART 1
BRAZILIAN ALBERTO SANTOS=DUMONT (the “=,” his stylized choice) was a Deutsch-Prize-winning balloonist (1901) who went on to demonstrate his 14 bis aeroplane on October 23, 1906 before a large crowd … Continue reading
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