“THE WEASEL” WENSLEY—A LESTRADE COLLEAGUE?
ONE OF THE ATTRACTIONS of Stephen Browning’s On the Trail of Sherlock Holmes is its encouraging me to perform added sleuthing. For example, Browning’s “Walk 7: East End” introduced me … Continue reading
NORWAY—A BEV PARADISE PART 2
YESTERDAY IN PART 1, we learned what Ward, Lock & Co., c. 1930, had to say about Norway. Today, we discuss this Scandinavian country’s love affair with Battery Electric Vehicles. … Continue reading
NORWAY—BEV PARADISE PART 1
I’VE NEVER BEEN TO NORWAY, but recognize this Scandinavian country’s accelerated transition to battery electric cars (despite nay sayers such as, you guessed it, Luddite me). Isn’t it about time … Continue reading
ARE THERE ENOUGH OF US OUT THERE ALREADY?
IT’S NO SURPRISE THAT, beginning around 1950, we’re no longer living in the Holocene Epoch but the Anthropocene. It turns out that by many measures, including biomass, human beings have … Continue reading
BOOKMARKS FOR COOKS
I LOVE TO COOK and enjoy accumulating books. (The scholarly term “collecting” is something of a boast.) I have more than four packed shelves devoted to favorite cookbooks, including Woman’s … Continue reading
VIV’S LINES
DAUGHTER SUZ AND I RECENTLY caught the last part of Gone With the Wind. Each of us had seen this near-4-hour epic before, but this didn’t lessen the entertainment of … Continue reading
ALEXANDRIA TIDBITS PART 2
YESTERDAY, WE LEFT THE Pharos of Alexandria in ruins, thanks largely to earthquakes abetted by the cost of a crumbling building’s upkeep, even if regarded as one of the Seven … Continue reading
ALEXANDRIA TIDBITS PART 1
ALEXANDER THE GREAT founded a city on the southeast Mediterranean coast in 331 B.C. In time, Alexandria was the largest city in the world, with a major reclamation project being … Continue reading
JENKS ON “TIGERING” AND OTHER RACE-DRIVING MATTERS
LEAFING THROUGH R&T APRIL 1959 (some time-gobbling in addition to this website and GMax), I came upon “The Racing Driver,” excerpts from Denis Jenkinson’s book subtitled “The Theory and Practice … Continue reading
HYDROGEN IN THEM THAR FAIRY CIRCLES PART 2
YESTERDAY, SCIENCE’S ERIC HAND described an innovative means of capturing hydrogen as a carbon-free renewable source of energy. Today in Part 2, details are gleaned from his article “Hidden Hydrogen,” … Continue reading
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