ETYMOLOGY: I AM APPALLED
BACK IN JANUARY 2018, I examined the word “embarrassed” in my series of Etymologies for our Times. Today, I add the word “appalled.” Indeed, as in “I am Embarrassed,” the … Continue reading
THE WIT OF AUTOMOTIVE ARTISTS
I WAS LEAFING through a Gooding & Company auction catalog when I encountered its auto memorabilia section. It impressed me with an aspect of automotive artists I hadn’t considered recently: … Continue reading
A GLIMPSE AT SIR MODELING PART 2
YESTERDAY IN PART 1, tidbits on epidemic modeling were offered, based on Paul Taylor’s “Susceptible, Infectious, Recovered,” London Review of Books, May 7, 2020. Today in Part 2, we see … Continue reading
A GLIMPSE AT SIR MODELING PART 1
AN “SIR” MODEL (as in S.I.R.) is a mathematical simulation of an epidemic. In full application, the model incorporates extremely detailed assessments of an epidemic’s factors. However, in “Susceptible, Infectious, … Continue reading
CELEBRATING EN HEDU’ANA
THE EARLIEST KNOWN poet, variously, En hedu’ana, Enheduanna, Sumerian 𒂗𒃶𒌌𒀭𒈾, flourished in the 23rd century B.C. I think of her as a Mesopotamian William Shakespeare, Johannes Kepler, and Emily Dickinson. … Continue reading
LOUIS BREGUET—A MAN AHEAD OF HIS TIME PART 2
THE NAME BREGUET is associated with time, but French pioneer aviator Louis Breguet was ahead of his. Here in Part 2, we see him as aviation entrepreneur, visionary, and theoretician. … Continue reading
LOUIS BREGUET—A MAN AHEAD OF HIS TIME PART 1
FRENCHMAN LOUIS BREGUET was the great-great-grandson of famed horologist Abraham-Louis Breguet. By contrast, Louis Breguet was an aviation pioneer, yet very much ahead of his time. Indeed, one of his … Continue reading
A GIANT AWAKENS PART 2
THE GIANT HERE is the U.S. auto industry. Today in Part 2, we continue with tidbits of its awakening from pandemic lockdown, as described in the past six weeks of … Continue reading
A GIANT AWAKENS PART 1
THE U.S., the second largest auto producer in the world, is awakening after a Covid-19-induced slumber. Here, in Parts 1 and 2 today and tomorrow, are tidbits about the automakers’ … Continue reading
BEHIND THE CURVE
SECOND GUESSING IS valuable only if it affects future actions. We can hope this occurs following an assessment in Science, May 8, 2020, published by the American Association for the … Continue reading
Simanaitis Says 