THE COOLEST BUILDINGS—MY FAVS PART 2
YESTERDAY, WE VISITED an ancient movie set, a chapel in saintly red rocks, and a Czech “Fred and Ginger.” Today in Part 2 we continue trippin’ around Europe and then … Continue reading
THE COOLEST BUILDINGS—MY FAVS PART 1
IN THIS HOTTEST of Northern Hemisphere summers, by “coolest” I mean intellectually satisfying in the sense of “hep.” Three websites provided tidbit gleaning, shared here in Parts 1 and 2 … Continue reading
КАК СКАЗАТЬ «DOOFUS» ПО-РУССКИ?
DUBIOUS INTERNET COMMUNICATION IS OFTEN REVEALED BY misspellings and other grammatical errors: “This Nigerian prinse have mony for yu.” And, thus, today’s SimanaitisSays title translates to “How to Say “Doofus” … Continue reading
ANXIETY AND THE SMARTPHONE
IT’S RARE THAT AAAS Science magazine and London Review of Books share substantial overlap. However, Science Editor-in-Chief H. Holden Thorp’s editorial “Unsettled Science on Social Media,” Science, June 19, 2024, … Continue reading
AN ANGLOPHILIC RECOMMENDATION
IF YOU’RE A COLLECTOR OF BRITISH CARS, have I ever got a deal for you! Well, not me, actually, but The New England Classic Car Company. “For more than 50 … Continue reading
ON A GOSSAMER VEIL OF SILENCE
IT SOUNDS TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE: MIT researchers have developed a silk fabric that can suppress unwanted noise and reduce noise transmission in a large room. Adam Zewe reports … Continue reading
HOW COME PILLS ARE (OFTEN) IN ORANGE BOTTLES?
CHARLOTTE HILTON ANDERSEN offers interesting tidbits, “This is the Real Reason Pill Bottles are Orange,” in Reader’s Digest, July 1, 2024. Charlotte writes, “As a child who had to take … Continue reading
REPUBLICAN MADNESS CONTINUES
WHEN FUTURE HISTORIANS write The Decline and Fall of the United States, Republican names like Mitch McConnell, Donald Trump, John G. Roberts, Clarence Thomas, Samuel A. Alito, Neil M. Gorsuch, … Continue reading
REULEAUX FUN: VENN ARRANGED JUST SO
A REULEAUX TRIANGLE, according to Wikipedia, is “a curved triangle with constant width, the simpliest and best known curve of constant width other than the circle.” By the way, it … Continue reading
