F1 FUELS 1989–1991: HOW GREEN THEY WEREN’T PART 2
PART 1 BEGAN OUR CRIBBING OF YOUR AUTHOR’S PRESENTATION at the 2008 SAE Motorsports Conference. We pick up here in Part 2 with another hydrocarbon not included in F1 Rocket … Continue reading
F1 FUELS 1989–1991: HOW GREEN THEY WEREN’T PART 1
FORMULA 1 FUELS WILL BE GREENER FOR 2026, with 100-percent sustainability based on the fuels already powering FIA Formula 2 and Formula 3 Championships. For more details, see Lawrence Barretto’s … Continue reading
LET’S CELEBRATE THE FROGS OF CALAVERAS—AND A.I.
REGULAR READERS, BLESS ’EM, ARE FAMILIAR with my rantings about Artificial Intelligence, its immense energy gobbling, its vast data scrapings, and its hallucinations. Today let’s celebrate another aspect of this complex … Continue reading
A PETTY GANGSTER PART 2
YESTERDAY IN PART 1, WE FOUND TRUMP, unlike movie gangsters, displaying pettiness in many of his actions. We continue this theme today with other verifications, including Trump’s own. From His … Continue reading
A PETTY GANGSTER PART 1
THANKS TO TURNER CLASSIC MOVIES, MY VIEWING of ’30s and ’40s gangster flicks leaves definitive impressions of the genre’s bad guys. Movie gangsters were cruel, conniving, and ruthless. However, rarely if … Continue reading
STEAMPUNK—PASTS AND FUTURES
WAY BACK IN THE LATE AUGHTS, Robert Wright defined Steampunk as “a subculture that encapsulates the aesthetic expression of a time-traveling fantasy world, one that embraces music, film, design and … Continue reading
RENÉE’S COSÌ—AND OTHERS PART 2
YESTERDAY, WE RECALLED SEVERAL PRODUCTIONS of Mozart’s Così Fan Tutte ranging from the traditional to the A.I.-robotic. Today, we learn what star soprano Renée Fleming has in mind as a … Continue reading
RENÉE’S COSÌ—AND OTHERS PART 1
MOZART’S COSÌ FAN TUTTE HAS BEEN TRANSLATED “WOMEN ARE LIKE THAT, but the famous soprano Renée Fleming is out to correct this opera’s misogynous implications. Here, in Parts 1 and … Continue reading
CABLING ELECTRICITY UNDERSEA
“ELECTRIC POWER IS NO LONGER THE HUMDRUM INDUSTRY IT USED TO BE,” writes Stanley Reed in “How The Deep Sea Cables That Power The World Are Made,” The New York … Continue reading
OPERA—PARK AND BARK, VERISMO, BUT ALWAYS RIDING THE RAZOR EDGE OF ABSURDITY
IN HER A MAD LOVE: AN INTRODUCTION TO OPERA, Vivien Schweitzer describes “park and bark” singers as those “who mostly stand immobile, or limit themselves to stock gestures, as was … Continue reading
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