CAN YOU FEEL ME NOW?
OUR CELL PHONES MAY FIND another use much to society’s benefit: assessing the structural integrity of bridges. Good News Network, November 4, 2022, reports, “Using the Golden Gate Bridge in … Continue reading
LOTUS 23—DRIVING IMPRESSIONS REPORTED BY HENRI L’AFITT
YESTERDAY, WE CELEBRATED the Lotus 23’s sports racing artistry, bred as horsey types might say “by Colin Anthony Chapman out of Lotus Formula Junior.” Today we share driving impressions of … Continue reading
LOTUS 23—FORM FOLLOWS FUNCTION (ANOTHER ADAGE COMES TO MIND TOO)
“RACING IMPROVES THE BREED” has equestrian origins, and horsepower of another variety confirms this adage as well. As does architect Louis Sullivan’s axiom “Form follows function.” The Lotus 23 sports … Continue reading
AN ATOM’S ADVENTURE
“A METAL ATOM IS a metal atom,” says Alan Nelson, senior vice president for battery materials at Redwood Materials, a company that has specialized in recycling. “That element doesn’t know … Continue reading
TEAM TEACHING: DISSOLVING THE WALLS OF EDUCATION
AT FIRST GLANCE, IT LOOKS LIKE pandemonium. But Mesa, Arizona, is piloting a Team Teaching project, wherein the separation of classes across physical or grade distinctions are dissolved. Here are … Continue reading
LENA, YODAVILLE, SHIRLEYS, AND THE TEAPOT PART 2
YESTERDAY, JAMES VINCENT began a review of Dylan Mulvin’s Proxies: The Cultural Work of Standing In. Today in Part 2 we continue with a familiar proxy, the International Prototype Kilogram, … Continue reading
LENA, YODAVILLE, SHIRLEYS, AND THE TEAPOT PART 1
WHAT DOES LENA, A PLAYBOY CENTERFOLD in 1972, have in common with Yodaville, a simulated Middle East community near Yuma, Arizona? Both Lena and Yodaville are discussed by James Vincent … Continue reading
REFINING HEMINGWAY’S DETECTOR
ERNEST HEMINGWAY SUGGESTED in The Paris Review, “The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shockproof, shit detector.” I used to suggest to students that readers as … Continue reading
A PLACE FOR THE CAR
BRITISH ARTIST KIERAN GABRIEL HITS a sweet spot in my appreciation of cars, architecture, and favorite artistic influences. The September 2022 Classic & Sports Car features his work in its … Continue reading
FUNDAMENTAL QUESTIONS IN COMPUTING
THE WORD “ADVERTORIAL” SETS an alarm in my mind: Is this thing trying to bamboozle me or what? On the other hand, AAAS Science magazine uses it in the pure … Continue reading
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