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
HOW COME PILLS ARE (OFTEN) IN ORANGE BOTTLES?
CHARLOTTE HILTON ANDERSEN offers interesting tidbits, “This is the Real Reason Pill Bottles are Orange,” in Reader’s Digest, July 1, 2024. Charlotte writes, “As a child who had to take … Continue reading
REPUBLICAN MADNESS CONTINUES
WHEN FUTURE HISTORIANS write The Decline and Fall of the United States, Republican names like Mitch McConnell, Donald Trump, John G. Roberts, Clarence Thomas, Samuel A. Alito, Neil M. Gorsuch, … Continue reading
REULEAUX FUN: VENN ARRANGED JUST SO
A REULEAUX TRIANGLE, according to Wikipedia, is “a curved triangle with constant width, the simpliest and best known curve of constant width other than the circle.” By the way, it … Continue reading
THE OLDEST OPERATING AIRPORTS IN THE U.S.
IT’S FUN AND STRAIGHTFORWARD: Identify the earliest U.S. airports that are still in operation. Being the A.I. luddite that I am, I did my own scraping of the Internet and … Continue reading
THOUGHTS ON ORIGINALISM PART 2
YESTERDAY WE DEFINED “ORIGINALISM” and began exploring its various interpretations of our Constitution’s Second Amendment’s “right to bear Arms.” Today in Part 2, New York University’s Professor Marcia Pally exposes … Continue reading
THOUGHTS ON ORIGINALISM PART 1
“ORIGINALISM” IS DEFINED AS “the theory of interpreting legal texts holding that a text in law, especially the U.S. Constitution, should be interpreted as it was understood at the time of its adoption. The original meaning … Continue reading
BENEFITS OF SPACE TOURISM PART 2
YESTERDAY IN PART 1, we met the four crew members of Inspiration4, the first privately funded orbital mission on a private rocket carrying private citizens. This endeavor benefited St. Jude … Continue reading
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