HOLMES: DOUBLE-0 221B?
WAS THE WORLD’S first consulting detective also a British agent? As Sherlock Holmes himself says, “Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth.” … Continue reading
HAPPY 25TH, SAVEUR!
IT HAS BEEN a quarter of a century now that we have enjoyed Saveur. The slogan of this gourmet, food, wine, and travel magazine is particularly appealing: “Savor a World … Continue reading
A MORE EFFICIENT CATALYST FOR FUEL CELLS
FUEL CELLS HAVE long exhibited potential for efficient generation of electricity from oxygen in the air and stored hydrogen. FCEVs Versus BEVS. One benefit, already achieved, is in fuel-cell electric … Continue reading
ETYMOLOGY: RHODOMONTADE AND OTHER CHARACTER TRAITS
THIS RESEARCH STARTED with an erudite, if perhaps overwrought, description of Britain’s Boris Johnson in the London Review of Books, August 15, 2019: Ferdinand Mount, one of the article’s co-authors, … Continue reading
MOMA’S FIRST CELEBRATION OF THE AUTOMOBILE PART 2
IN 1951, NEW YORK CITY’s Museum of Modern Art celebrated automotive esthetics with its 8 Automobiles exhibit. Yesterday in Part 1, we shared MOMA views on its first four examples. … Continue reading
MOMA’S FIRST CELEBRATION OF THE AUTOMOBILE PART 1
“I GO SOMEWHERE… I take a cab.” This apocryphal New Yorker’s view of travel was countered by that city’s Museum of Modern Art and its first exhibit on automotive design. … Continue reading
ON DEADLY ACCESSIBLE TECHNOLOGY
MAYBE CONTRITION prompted Alfred Nobel to devise the Peace Prize. He made a fortune from his 1867 patent for dynamite. Nobel’s Blasting Powder was marketed as a safer alternative to … Continue reading
HOW COME WHALES ARE SO BIG?
“BLUE WHALE HEARTS May Beat Only Twice a Minute During a Dive,” wrote Cara Giaimo in The New York Times, November 27, 2019. Equally interesting was this article’s reference to … Continue reading
MANGA TIDBITS PART 2
YESTERDAY WE began a celebration of manga, the Japanese genre of pictorial storytelling. Today in Part 2, we’ll see how manga pacing and text presentation set it apart from the … Continue reading
MANGA TIDBITS PART 1
THE JAPANESE WORD マンガ, manga means “pictures running riot,” a good description of this genre of pictorial storytelling. Or as comics authority Paul Gravett terms it, “more than telling a … Continue reading
