INNES’S CALIFORNIA PART 1
INNES IRELAND, WINNER of the U.S. Grand Prix, Watkins Glen, 1961, and regular contributor to R&T, was a man of many talents and multiple sides. Wife Dottie and I knew … Continue reading
TRIPPIN’ THRU TIME IN LONDON
DAUGHTER SUZ SHARED “In London, Looking Backward to Move Forward,” by Henry Wismayer in The Washington Post, March 4, 2021. In particular, she recommended its link to Layers of London, … Continue reading
ETYMOLOGY—FILIBUSTER PART 2
YESTERDAY, WE BEGAN a review of “filibuster,” its etymology, and its use as a delaying tactic in the U.S. Senate. Here in Part 2, we discuss its history, other filibuster … Continue reading
ETYMOLOGY—FILIBUSTER PART 1
THERE IS NOTHING good to say about “filibuster.” Even its etymology is embarrassing. As noted in Merriman-Webster, the word comes from the Spanish filibustero, literally “freebooter.” “Filibuster” made its first … Continue reading
PLANCK CORES—A NEW COSMOLOGICAL MODEL
SCIENTISTS ARE MODELERS. They devise mathematical models to explain what they perceive as reality. Pre-Copernicus, with human-centric and religious fervor, their model located Earth at their reality’s center. Newton refined … Continue reading
MATHEMATICS AND Moby-Dick
I’VE MET SEVERAL world-famous mathematicians, including Lotfi Zadeh, 1921–2017, the discoverer of fuzzy logic. And my life has also been enriched by learning from those I’ve not had opportunity to … Continue reading
ON INDUSTRY 4.0
THE MARCH 2021 Shift, published as a supplement to Automotive News, has a most interesting editorial by Leslie J. Allen, Shift Editor. She writes, “I’m not much for buzzwords,” but … Continue reading
BOIS-CLAIR’S TURNING PICTURES
AN AD FROM M.S. RAU, Fine Art—Antiques—Jewels, in The New York Times, March 7, 2021, reads “Seeing Double: Dual Royal Portrait.” The ad describes a royal portrait, but unlike any … Continue reading
AAAS MEMBER COMMUNITY FORUM GLEANING
AFTER ALMOST TWO years of lively—not to say occasionally raucous—exchange, the American Association for the Advancement of Science has modified the Terms and Conditions of its Community Forum. Some members … Continue reading
HOME AND GARAGE
DAVID BOND’S BOOK The Guinness Guide to 20th Century Homes was published in England in 1984. Thus, the book has a certain quaintness by virtue of its 36-year perspective as … Continue reading
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