AN IMPORTANT PROGRAM IS EXPANDING
EMILY MULLIN WRITES IN WIRED, July 15, 2024, “It Will Soon be Easier for Americans to Recycle Batteries.” “This month,” Mullin writes, “the US Department of Energy announced a $14 million … Continue reading
ON AMERICAN MYTHS PART 2
YESTERDAY WE SHARED TIDBITS from two professors, London Review of Books contributor Eric Foner reviewing Richard Slotkin’s A Great Disorder: National Myth and the Battle for America. Today in Part … Continue reading
ON AMERICAN MYTHS PART 1
“IN NEED OF A NEW MYTH” is the title of Professor Eric Foner’s review of Richard Slotkin’s A Great Disorder: National Myth and the Battle for America, published in London … Continue reading
SAN FRANCISCO’S HYDROGEN FERRY
THE FIRST HYDROGEN FUEL-CELL FERRY is now operating in San Francisco Bay. Marika Price Spitulski gives details at Nice News, July 15, 2024. Cutting Pollution. Hitherto, conventional diesel engines power … Continue reading
PUTTING THINGS IN PERSPECTIVE
AH…. THE FIFTIES.… THE REACTIONARY’S DREAM…. HistoryFacts posted a tantalizing question, “What Did Gas Cost in the 1950s?” And, to its credit, the website’s answer of 27¢/gallon isn’t just wowed-over. … Continue reading
TIDBITS FROM AUTOMOTIVE NEWS
I’VE ALREADY CONFESSED TO GLEANING the authoritative Automotive News for tidbits, not for incremental details of following this industry. It’s one of the benefits of ten years’ retirement after 33+ … Continue reading
A.I. AND A SENSE OF MORALITY
A NEW BOOK, THE AI MIRROR, offers the views of philosopher Shannon Vallor, who at PhilPeople says, “My research explores how emerging technologies reshape human moral and intellectual character, and … Continue reading
A TRAGIC AND SAD TIME
I HAD SCHEDULED AN AAAS SCIENCE editorial about misinformation as today’s SimanaitisSays item. Horrifically, the attempted assassination of Donald Trump had transformed all this. It is immensely tragic that one … Continue reading
MEET THE TAYLOR FOLKS
IT’S A TAD OFF MY U.S. RTE 6 MEANDERINGS, but Taylor, Nebraska, is a must see on any further coast-to-coasts. In fact, I learned about Taylor Folks in my recent … Continue reading
DOES THE SPORTS CAR EXIST?—A 40-YEAR PERSPECTIVE PART 2
TODAY IN PART 2 WE CONTINUE RECOUNTING R&T STAFF opinions about sports cars in 1984, with several new comments reflecting four decades of wisdom (or whatever else one accumulates over … Continue reading
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