LRB LETTER WRITERS—AN ARTICULATE GROUP
THE LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS IS EVIDENTLY WELL COMPOSED, and articulate as well are its “Letters” column respondents. To me they serve a double purpose: reminding me of something previously … Continue reading
A BOND/MACMINN LE MANS COUPE IS HONORED AT AMELIA CONCOURS PART 3
THUS FAR, IN PARTS 1 AND 2, the Bond/MacMinn Le Mans Coupe has been theoretic. Here in Part 3, we see the car transformed into hardware, briefly tested, and then … Continue reading
A BOND/MACMINN LE MANS COUPE IS HONORED AT AMELIA CONCOURS PART 2
YESTERDAY IN PART 1, R&T’S JOHN R. BOND PROPOSED “An American Car for Le Mans” in his “Sports Car Design” series. Today in Part 2, a challenge is addressed of … Continue reading
A BOND/MACMINN LE MANS COUPE IS HONORED AT AMELIA CONCOURS PART 1
GARNERING THE CHIEF JUDGES AWARD at the 2024 Amelia Island Concours d’Elegance is a car identified in Classic & Sports Car’s May 2024 issue as the “wild 1958 Macminn Le … Continue reading
SCIENCE (AND GENERATIVE A.I.) IN ACTION
THIS ALL STARTED WITH AN INTERESTING LITTLE ITEM in the “News” section of AAAS Science magazine, May 3, 2024. Its heading read “Physiology: All Dog Noses Are Created Equal.” And … Continue reading
JAGUAR R1 FORMULA 1 CAR—VIRTUAL TESTING PART 2
YESTERDAY WE BEGAN ANALYSIS of the Jaguar R1 Formula 1 race car, as described in R&T’s March 2001 telemetry-based virtual track test. Today in Part 2 we continue with bits … Continue reading
JAGUAR R1 FORMULA 1 CAR—VIRTUAL TESTING PART 1
BY THE MILLENNIUM, TELEMETRY had become firmly embedded into Formula 1. And in the year 2000, F1 had its inaugural United Grand Prix at Indianapolis Motor Speedway (not to be … Continue reading
CALL ME ANYTHING BUT NOT LATE FOR DINNER
I AGED TEN YEARS MOMENTARILY in reading the Social Security Administration’s list of most popular baby names for 2023. Quickly, though, matters got back to what passes for normal in … Continue reading
ALOHA, HOALOHA
HAWAIIAN IS AN OFFICIAL LANGUAGE of our 50th state; so is English. (The only other U.S. states with multiple official languages are Alaska including 20 Alaska Native tongues and South … Continue reading
SLEUTHING LEONARDO’S BACKGROUND
DALYA ALBERGE WRITES in The Guardian, May 11, 2024, “Mystery of Where Mona Lisa Was Painted Has Been Solved, Geologist Claims.” Alberge recounts, “The landscape behind Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona … Continue reading
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