A TRAGIC AND SAD TIME
I HAD SCHEDULED AN AAAS SCIENCE editorial about misinformation as today’s SimanaitisSays item. Horrifically, the attempted assassination of Donald Trump had transformed all this. It is immensely tragic that one … Continue reading
MEET THE TAYLOR FOLKS
IT’S A TAD OFF MY U.S. RTE 6 MEANDERINGS, but Taylor, Nebraska, is a must see on any further coast-to-coasts. In fact, I learned about Taylor Folks in my recent … Continue reading
DOES THE SPORTS CAR EXIST?—A 40-YEAR PERSPECTIVE PART 2
TODAY IN PART 2 WE CONTINUE RECOUNTING R&T STAFF opinions about sports cars in 1984, with several new comments reflecting four decades of wisdom (or whatever else one accumulates over … Continue reading
THE COOLEST BUILDINGS—MY FAVS PART 2
YESTERDAY, WE VISITED an ancient movie set, a chapel in saintly red rocks, and a Czech “Fred and Ginger.” Today in Part 2 we continue trippin’ around Europe and then … Continue reading
THE COOLEST BUILDINGS—MY FAVS PART 1
IN THIS HOTTEST of Northern Hemisphere summers, by “coolest” I mean intellectually satisfying in the sense of “hep.” Three websites provided tidbit gleaning, shared here in Parts 1 and 2 … Continue reading
КАК СКАЗАТЬ «DOOFUS» ПО-РУССКИ?
DUBIOUS INTERNET COMMUNICATION IS OFTEN REVEALED BY misspellings and other grammatical errors: “This Nigerian prinse have mony for yu.” And, thus, today’s SimanaitisSays title translates to “How to Say “Doofus” … Continue reading
ANXIETY AND THE SMARTPHONE
IT’S RARE THAT AAAS Science magazine and London Review of Books share substantial overlap. However, Science Editor-in-Chief H. Holden Thorp’s editorial “Unsettled Science on Social Media,” Science, June 19, 2024, … Continue reading
AN ANGLOPHILIC RECOMMENDATION
IF YOU’RE A COLLECTOR OF BRITISH CARS, have I ever got a deal for you! Well, not me, actually, but The New England Classic Car Company. “For more than 50 … Continue reading
ON A GOSSAMER VEIL OF SILENCE
IT SOUNDS TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE: MIT researchers have developed a silk fabric that can suppress unwanted noise and reduce noise transmission in a large room. Adam Zewe reports … Continue reading
Simanaitis Says 
DOES THE SPORTS CAR EXIST?—A 40-YEAR PERSPECTIVE PART 1
BACK IN MARCH 1984, R&T did a comparison test of “Six 2-Seaters” cited recently here at SimanaitisSays. This and following images from R&T, March 1984. Accompanying that comparison test was … Continue reading →