RENDERING A CURTISS CONDOR T-32
AS I NOTED BACK IN OCTOBER 2015, “I admired the pugnacious lines of the Curtiss-Wright T-32… an aircraft that some judged already obsolete when it was designed.” Well, years later … Continue reading
AUTOMOTIVE NEWS TIDBITS PART 2
YESTERDAY, I GLEANED TIDBITS FROM Automotive News concerning BEV repairability and FCEV Class 8 trucking. Today, this authoritative journal changes pace to discuss Formula 1 research, Britain’s aging car parks, … Continue reading
AUTOMOTIVE NEWS TIDBITS PART 1
THESE DAYS, MORE THAN A DECADE INTO MY blissful retirement fun of SimanaitisSays and GMax time gobbling, I look to the authoritative Automotive News for tidbits, not for incremental details … Continue reading
DÉDICACES GOURMANDES
A COUPLE MONTHS AFTER inaugurating SimanaitisSays, I wrote about La Pyramide, the restaurant established by Fernand Point, who mentored many chefs renowned for Nouvelle Cuisine. About 20 miles south of … Continue reading
ON PURE SCIENCE
WE USTA JOKE, SORTA, that applied mathematics was done only behind a locked office door. Pure mathematics reigned. Two recent findings suggest that pure science is still alive and well. … Continue reading
BALTO AND KENWOOD—HERO OF NOME, GODDOG OF INNES IRELAND, RESPECTIVELY
“IN 1925,” ELIZABETH PENNISI RECOUNTS IN AAAS Science, April 27, 2023, “a sled dog named Balto made headlines around the world when he braved fierce winds, a raging blizzard, and … Continue reading
WOMEN IN THE CRUSADES
A TYPICAL IMAGE OF CRUSADING WOMEN has them as suffragettes or wielding hatchets against Demon Rum. But Barbara Newman writes of “Cauldrons for Helmets” in London Review of Books, April … Continue reading
HURRAH FOR BUTTONS!
I TAKE ERASMUS-LIKE SATISFACTION in reading David Zipper’s “The Glorious Return of a Humble Car Feature” in Slate, April 26, 2023. Indeed, it was way back on August 31, 2012, … Continue reading
SIR PAUL’S STAGE DESIGNS
NO SURPRISE, THERE’S A LIVERPOOL BEATLES MUSEUM. In its three levels, the museum contains more than 1000 bits of Beatlemania. A surprise, though, is to find an example of little … Continue reading
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