MARS—AS TIMELY AS TODAY’S HEADLINES, OR THOSE OF THE LATE 19TH CENTURY, OR THOSE OF MAR’S ORIGIN PART 1
I PLANNED THIS AS A BOOK REVIEW of David Baron’s The Martians, with tidbits gleaned from Dov Greenbaum’s “Mars Mania and the Making of Scientific Authority,” AAAS Science, August 28, … Continue reading
HEY, DUDE—CATCH THAT WAVE!
DORANY PINEDA AND JENNIFER MCDERMOTT report that “In LA Port, Bobbing Blue Floats Are Turning Wave Power into Clean Energy,” AP News, September 8, 2025. Prototype floats react to wave … Continue reading
CELEBRATING 100 YEARS OF ART DECO PART 2
THIS THEME BEGAN YESTERDAY WITH GLEANING TIDBITS of Art Deco from Emma Bastin’s “Designs for Life,” BBC History, August 2025. Here in Part 2 she continues with ads “at 100km … Continue reading
CELEBRATING 100 YEARS OF ART DECO PART 1
READERS OF SIMANAITISSAYS MIGHT HAVE CAUGHT ON that I love Art Deco: See, for example, “Deco Dreaming,” “Soaring Art Deco—In The City of Angels,” and even, lamentably enough, “Art Deco, … Continue reading
MERCEDES-BENZ 300-SL ROADSTERS—1958 AND 50 YEARS HENCE
“TURN RIGHT AT THE VALKYRIE, AND Drive Straight to Valhalla,” read R&T’s subhead for its January 1958 Road Test of the 300-SL Roadster. Image from “Brooklands Double Twelve,” SimanaitisSays, … Continue reading
CROSS-REFERENCES FOR FUN AND ILLUMINATION PART 2
YESTERDAY, CROSS-REFERENCES OFFERED an innovative means of indexing material. Today in Part 2, we continue this investigation from Brewer’s Rogues, Villains & Eccentrics: An A–Z of Roguish Britons Through the … Continue reading
CROSS-REFERENCING FOR FUN AND ILLUMINATION PART 1
THOUGH OTHER BREWER’S PUBLICATIONS HAVE APPEARED here at SimanaitisSays, I don’t believe I’ve ever told you about Brewer’s Rogues, Villains & Eccentrics: An A–Z of Roguish Britons Through the Ages. … Continue reading
LEST TRUMP FORGETS (AS IF HE EVER KNEW) PART 2
YESTERDAY’S MENTION OF ROAD TRIPS brought to mind The Negro Motorist Green Book published annually between 1936 and 1966. Perhaps it’s too much reading for the likes of Trump, what … Continue reading
LEST TRUMP FORGETS (AS IF HE EVER KNEW….) PART 1
SIDNEY BLUMENTHAL WRITES IN THE GUARDIAN, September 4, 2025, “Trump Wants to Rewrite American History. Maybe He Should Learn It First.” Blumenthal observes, “Of all the presidents, Donald Trump—the man … Continue reading
PHOTOPHORETIC FLIGHT IN THE IGNOSPHERE, THANKS TO CROOKE’S RADIOMETER, SORTA
THERE ARE SEVERAL NEAT WORDS ABOVE gleaned from Annika Inampudi’s article “Featherweight Flyers Could ‘Levitate’ Above Earth Indefinitely,” AAAS Science, August 13, 2025. Let’s consider each of these words, then … Continue reading
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