“WE FINALLY HAVE A PRESIDENT WHO FOLLOWS SCIENCE”
THIS, FROM WHITE HOUSE.GOV. What unmitigated clap-trap! What proof of ego-pandering lies! Above, the lead page for which we taxpayers paid. Image from The White House, April 22, 2025. Below, … Continue reading
BIG, BEAUTIFUL AND BRUTISH—DEFINITELY NOT FOR THE IMPECUNIOUS NOR THE FAINT OF HEART
“FERRARI,” R&T RECOUNTED IN DECEMBER 1962, “IS A MAGIC NAME, epitomized by automotive writers as a sort of 4-wheeled Holy Grail, to be sought after with fervor, worshipped in blind … Continue reading
WHICH WAY IS NORTH? AND WHY ANYWAY? PART 2
YESTERDAY IN PART 1, WE BEGAN SHARING James Vincent’s London Review of Books assessment of Jerry Brotton’s Four Points of the Compass: The Unexpected History of Direction. Here in Part … Continue reading
WHICH WAY IS NORTH? AND WHY ANYWAY? PART 1
JAMES VINCENT REVIEWS JERRY BROTTON’S FOUR POINTS OF THE COMPASS in the London Review of Books, April 15, 2025. Early on, he struck a responsive chord with me: “Every compass … Continue reading
TRUMP GENDER-101
TRUMP CHAOS IN SCIENCE is well documented: “Climate Change is a HOAX!” And this focused ignorance continues. Here are tidbits on another aspect of this, gender, from recent issues of AAAS … Continue reading
MORE ON TRUMP’S AUTOCRACY PLAYBOOK
FIVE DAYS AGO HERE AT SIMANAITISSAYS, U.S. Senator Chris Murphy shared the autocracy playbook employed by Putin in Russia, Orbán in Hungary, Erdoğan in Turkey—and Trump before our eyes. In … Continue reading
ON GREENLAND, NOT JUST OVER IT PART 2
YESTERDAY, PART 1 SHARED JAMES MEEK’S personal encounters experienced in Greenland described in “Everything is Possible,” London Review of Books, April 17, 2025. Today’s Part 2 begins with an horrific … Continue reading
ON GREENLAND, NOT JUST OVER IT PART 1
JAMES MEEK IS A CONTRIBUTING EDITOR at the London Review of Books and, by my modest standards, something of an adventurous traveler: He recently visited Greenland, a place I’ve experienced … Continue reading
WANNA AIM FOR AN F1 CAREER?
AS EARLY AS THE ALAIN PROST/AYRTON SENNA GENERATION, you’d wanna drive a go-kart as a kid. (Senna’s dad built his first one). Michael Schumacher is a later example of early … Continue reading
A THOUGHTFUL ANALYSIS PART 2
YESTERDAY IN PART 1 WE BEGAN GLEANING TIDBITS from Senator Chris Murphy’s analysis of the path to autocracy. Here in Part 2, he lists six specific elements in this lamentable … Continue reading
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