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Monthly Archives: September, 2024

A.I. CAN REDUCE CONSPIRACY BELIEFS

“EVEN THE DEEPEST OF RABBIT HOLES may have an exit” says a news release, September 12, 2024 from American University. Indeed, appearing the same day AAAS Science’s Editor-in-Chief H. Holden … Continue reading

September 20, 2024 · Leave a comment

WITH A SONG IN MY HEAD

MAYBE IT’S A BYPRODUCT of whacko Robert F. Kennedy Jr’s brain worm, but Melinda Wenner Moyer writes in The New York Times, September 10, 2024, “Why Can’t I Get This … Continue reading

September 19, 2024 · 5 Comments

THREE SISTERS VS THE PESTS—THEORY AND PRACTICE PART 2

YESTERDAY’S PART 1 OFFERED the theory of interplanting corn, beans, and squash for mutual benefit of these vegetables, not to say their cultivators as well. Today we have Sylvia Klyz’s … Continue reading

September 18, 2024 · 1 Comment

THREE SISTERS VS THE PESTS—THEORY AND PRACTICE PART 1

THIS SOUNDS LIKE ONE OF THOSE “Grrls Get Even” flicks, but in fact it’s about the science of interplanting corn, beans, and squash—the Three Sisters—with mutual benefits for all three … Continue reading

September 17, 2024 · 1 Comment

ANGRY DAN’S ICONS OF LONDON

BRIT STREET ARTIST/LIMERIST EXTRAORDINAIRE ANGRY DAN is anything but angry. As recounted by Georgie Mortimer at *Secret London, February 22, 2019, “Someone’s Been Leaving Limericks Around London (And They Really Make … Continue reading

September 16, 2024 · Leave a comment

TIME-MACHINE TOWNS PART 2

YESTERDAY WE VISITED THREE U.S. Small Towns residing in time-machines of sorts. Today in Part 2, dailypassport’s Marissa Kozma describes three more of these towns, one in my native Ohio, … Continue reading

September 15, 2024 · 1 Comment

TIME-MACHINE TOWNS PART 1

MARISSA KOZMA WRITES IN the dailypassport website about “6 U.S. Small Towns That Feel Like Stepping Back in Time”. Being well-travelled and of a certain age, I find that they … Continue reading

September 14, 2024 · 1 Comment

MY FAVORITE MODEL(S)—AND THE REAL ONE

THE JULY 2024 ISSUE OF Classic & Sports Car and subsequent sleuthing confirm that I am not the only person absolutely whacko about the 1933 Napier-Railton. The fact that I … Continue reading

September 13, 2024 · 5 Comments

AN OPERATIC HOLMES PART 2

YESTERDAY IN PART 1 HAYLEY COYLE of BBC News reported on “What the Deuce? Sherlock Holmes Opera Debut.” A Matter of the Mysterious “The.” This new opera, “Sherlock Holmes and … Continue reading

September 12, 2024 · Leave a comment

AN OPERATIC HOLMES PART 1

SHERLOCK HOLMES (THE REAL ONE as we Sherlockians like to believe) has been portrayed in numerous films, at least thrice on the musical stage, once in a ballet—and now, according … Continue reading

September 11, 2024 · 1 Comment