WHICH WAY IS NORTH? AND WHY ANYWAY? PART 1
JAMES VINCENT REVIEWS JERRY BROTTON’S FOUR POINTS OF THE COMPASS in the London Review of Books, April 15, 2025. Early on, he struck a responsive chord with me: “Every compass … Continue reading
TRUMP GENDER-101
TRUMP CHAOS IN SCIENCE is well documented: “Climate Change is a HOAX!” And this focused ignorance continues. Here are tidbits on another aspect of this, gender, from recent issues of AAAS … Continue reading
MORE ON TRUMP’S AUTOCRACY PLAYBOOK
FIVE DAYS AGO HERE AT SIMANAITISSAYS, U.S. Senator Chris Murphy shared the autocracy playbook employed by Putin in Russia, Orbán in Hungary, Erdoğan in Turkey—and Trump before our eyes. In … Continue reading
ON GREENLAND, NOT JUST OVER IT PART 2
YESTERDAY, PART 1 SHARED JAMES MEEK’S personal encounters experienced in Greenland described in “Everything is Possible,” London Review of Books, April 17, 2025. Today’s Part 2 begins with an horrific … Continue reading
ON GREENLAND, NOT JUST OVER IT PART 1
JAMES MEEK IS A CONTRIBUTING EDITOR at the London Review of Books and, by my modest standards, something of an adventurous traveler: He recently visited Greenland, a place I’ve experienced … Continue reading
WANNA AIM FOR AN F1 CAREER?
AS EARLY AS THE ALAIN PROST/AYRTON SENNA GENERATION, you’d wanna drive a go-kart as a kid. (Senna’s dad built his first one). Michael Schumacher is a later example of early … Continue reading
A THOUGHTFUL ANALYSIS PART 2
YESTERDAY IN PART 1 WE BEGAN GLEANING TIDBITS from Senator Chris Murphy’s analysis of the path to autocracy. Here in Part 2, he lists six specific elements in this lamentable … Continue reading
A THOUGHTFUL ANALYSIS PART 1
CHRIS MURPHY IS A U.S. SENATOR, a Democrat representing the people of Connecticut. On April 19, 2025, he sent an email to me—and to plenty of others, I’m sure—advising that … Continue reading
SCIENCE HAPPENS PART 2
YESTERDAY WE DISCUSSED SCIENCE as it navigates itself through the pages of AAAS Science magazine; this, despite a Trump administration seemingly bent on eschewing science at every opportunity. Today in … Continue reading
SCIENCE HAPPENS PART 1
DESPITE THE QUEENS FELON CARING NOTHING—and contributing less than a plugged nickel—about science, it happens anyway. Here, in Parts 1 and 2 today and tomorrow, are tidbits gleaned from my … Continue reading
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