UNEXPECTED RECOLLECTIONS PART 1
MEMORIES ARE OFT REKINDLED quite routinely. Such as reading Corey Kilgannon’s “WCBS Radio, the Soundtrack of Countless Cab Rides, Goes Quiet,” in The New York Times, August 13, 2024. Hmm… … Continue reading
WORDS GONE POLITICALLY AWRY
WE USED TO HAVE SPECIAL WORDS: “MUGWUMPS,” for example, were politicos who needlessly wavered, a marvelously illustrative word. These days, the MAGAs have been less imaginative lexicographically: They’ve taken words … Continue reading
1960 FERRARI 250 GT COUPE—A (SUBTLE) EXOTIC
LAMBORGHINIS, FERRARIS, MID-ENGINE VETTES—and even the occasional neo Bugatti—are seen today here in Orange County, California. There’s no mistaking their exotic nature. Add a classic 1960 Ferrari 250 GT Coupe … Continue reading
KEEPING KEWL WITH AND WITHOUT VAPOR COMPRESSION PART 2
THIS ALL BEGAN WITH LEARNING ABOUT solid-state refrigerants as described in “Sizing Up Caloric Devices,” AAAS Science, August 2, 2024. Today in Part 2, three types of solid-state devices offer … Continue reading
KEEPING KEWL BOTH WITH AND WITHOUT VAPOR COMPRESSION PART 1
MY AUGUST 2, 2024, ISSUE OF AAAS SCIENCE has “Sizing Up Caloric Devices,” by Suxin Qian and Ichiro Takeuchi. Its subtitle is also eye-catching: “Emerging solid-state cooling technologies may help … Continue reading
F-JR FUN—ENJOYING AN ELVA AND AN ENVOY PART 2
YESTERDAY, WE SHARED MECHANICAL DETAILS of the Formula Junior Elva and Envoy gleaned from R&T June 1960 and February 1961 respectively. Today in Part 2, we read what the era’s … Continue reading
F-JR FUN—ENJOYING AN ELVA AND AN ENVOY PART 1
“FORMULA JUNIOR IS AN OPEN-WHEEL RACING class,” Wikipedia describes, “first adopted in October 1958 by the CSI (International Sporting Commission, the part of the FIA that then regulated motorsports).” Wikipedia continues, “The … Continue reading
THE NECKER CUBE, ESCHER ILLOS, AND A CUBED CUBE
YESTERDAY IN “I Was Reading Wittgenstein the Other Day….,” LRB reviewer A.W. Moore cited “the two ways of seeing a Necker cube” appearing in Wittgenstein’s Proposition 5.5423. Though this cube … Continue reading
I WAS READING WITTGENSTEIN THE OTHER DAY….
WELL, YES, SO MUCH FOR that boastful opening. What I mean to say is that I was reading an article about Austrian philosopher Ludvig Wittgenstein in the London Review of … Continue reading
HORATIO’S TRIBUTE AND A RAYMOND CHANDLER FALSE LEAD
WHAT’S THE LINK BETWEEN Horatio’s last words in Shakespeare’s Hamlet and Harry Jones’s final misleading in Raymond Chandler’s The Big Sleep? This is the sort of thing that pops into … Continue reading
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