OUT OF AFRICA, KITTY-STYLE PART 1
AAAS SCIENCE, NOVEMBER 2025, DISPLAYS A FASCINATING cover blurb belying that our cat pals—as you might guess—got here in their own good time. Here in Parts 1 and 2 today … Continue reading
THANKS, PANTONE: THE WORLD NEEDS 11-4201!
IVY BUCK AND ALINA EDWARDS REPORT (wittingly) “You Read That Write: Pantone’s 2026 Color of the Year is ‘Cloud Dancer,’ ” NPR, December 4, 2025: “The company describes it as … Continue reading
AN UNEVEN PENDULUM
I HAVE LONG THOUGHT OF POLITICS being modeled by the swing of a pendulum. There are always extremists, I concede, though most of us are generally centrists on many matters. … Continue reading
EXPO TIDBITS PART 2
YESTERDAY GOT US STARTED REVIEWING TWO of the world’s expositions—both, curiously, in Philadelphia. Today in Part 2 we focus on my own involvement with others of this form of public … Continue reading
EXPO TIDBITS PART 1
IT TURNS OUT I’VE VISITED SEVERAL WORLD EXPOSITIONS (or their sites) as well as written about some others. What with our Semiquincentennial coming soon, this seems a good time to … Continue reading
THE LOST WORLD PART 2
YESTERDAY’S The Lost World silent movie discussion got us appreciating stop-motion animation and also a dish named Bessie Love, appropriately named portraying the flick’s love interest. Today in Part 2, … Continue reading
THE LOST WORLD 1925 PART 1
I HAVE LONG ADMIRED ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE, literary agent for Sherlock Holmes and, it can be noted, for another notable as well: Brigadier Gerard. Indeed, you may recognize Conan Doyle … Continue reading
A PECAN CAPER
I AM BY BIRTH AN OHIOAN, sorta east of the Midwest and westward of true Easterners. This also dictates my way of speech. Indeed, I confess that as a kid … Continue reading
COUNTACH!!
THE WORD ABOVE IS DISPLAYED IN ITALICS to emphasize contacc, its Piedmontese meaning roughly “WOW!!” As noted by the car’s designer Marcello Gandini, the word literally means ‘plague,’ ‘contagion,’ and … Continue reading
GOOGLING—FOR FUN AND PROFIT PART 2
YESTERDAY WE BEGAN GLEANING TIDBITS from Donald MacKenzie’s “The Future of Search,” London Review of Books, November 20, 2025. Today in Part 2 he (and we) continue analyzing implications of … Continue reading
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