NANO-SHOCKING NEWS!
ANDREW PAUL WRITES IN POPULAR SCIENCE, September 18, 2024, “After 2600 Years, We Finally Know How Static Electricity Really Works.” Well isn’t it about time? No, it’s about nano particles. … Continue reading
DON’T FORGET THE WATERCRESS SANDWICHES
IN COZY ENGLISH WHO-DONE-ITS, watercress sandwiches at teatime seem to coincide with reveal of the rascal. Now according to Korin Miller writing in Food & Wine, September 12, 2024, “The … Continue reading
ALVIS SPEED 20—A GENTLEMAN’S SPORTING MACHINE PART 2
YESTERDAY, R&T JANUARY 1959 INTRODUCED US to the 1932 Alvis Speed 20. Today in Part 2 we review this luxurious Brit four-seat tourer with tidbits gleaned from R&T’s Classic Road … Continue reading
ALVIS SPEED 20—A GENTLEMAN’S SPORTING MACHINE PART 1
IMAGINE YOU’RE AN (EVIDENTLY WELL-HEELED) auto enthusiast in 1932. You have enjoyed the likes of Amicar and Bugatti two-seaters, but now there’s the wife and little Artemis calling for suitable … Continue reading
A LOT MORE THAN A ROOF OVER ONE’S HEAD
AN AVOWED ENTHUSIAST OF FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT (see for example “FLW at the MOMA,” particularly its Part 2 “You Can Own an American Home”), I’m surprised I’ve never cited Ennis … Continue reading
GUS’S WORLD FAMOUS FRIED CHICKEN IS BEST!
I REPEAT, GUS’S WORLD FAMOUS FRIED CHICKEN IS BEST!! Well, I concede that you may have a fav fried chicken place too, so let’s praise the concept as well as … Continue reading
A.I. CAN REDUCE CONSPIRACY BELIEFS
“EVEN THE DEEPEST OF RABBIT HOLES may have an exit” says a news release, September 12, 2024 from American University. Indeed, appearing the same day AAAS Science’s Editor-in-Chief H. Holden … Continue reading
WITH A SONG IN MY HEAD
MAYBE IT’S A BYPRODUCT of whacko Robert F. Kennedy Jr’s brain worm, but Melinda Wenner Moyer writes in The New York Times, September 10, 2024, “Why Can’t I Get This … Continue reading
THREE SISTERS VS THE PESTS—THEORY AND PRACTICE PART 2
YESTERDAY’S PART 1 OFFERED the theory of interplanting corn, beans, and squash for mutual benefit of these vegetables, not to say their cultivators as well. Today we have Sylvia Klyz’s … Continue reading
THREE SISTERS VS THE PESTS—THEORY AND PRACTICE PART 1
THIS SOUNDS LIKE ONE OF THOSE “Grrls Get Even” flicks, but in fact it’s about the science of interplanting corn, beans, and squash—the Three Sisters—with mutual benefits for all three … Continue reading
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