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CONKERS, ANYONE?
BEING AN ANGLOPHILE, I’m a bit embarrassed to admit I’ve only recently learned of the game of conkers. The Discoverer, October 19, 2021, posted “How British Autumn Differs From American Fall.” The...
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CATCHING UP WITH AUTOMOTIVE NEWS PART 1
HERE’S STUFF I wouldn’t have known, had I not regularly read Automotive News, the auto industry weekly. Tidbits in Parts 1 and 2 today and tomorrow are presented in no particular order of global...
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CATCHING UP WITH AUTOMOTIVE NEWS PART 2
YESTERDAY IN Part 1, I gleaned Automotive News tidbits of one sort or another. This continues today in Part 2 with crystal ball views of our automotive future clear out to 2025, and opinions...
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CUISINE ADVENTURING—THROUGH GASTRO OBSCURA
ATLAS OBSCURA HAS PUBLISHED fine travel and adventure books, including The World’s Most Adventurous Kid described here at SimanaitisSays. Gastro Obscura: A Food Adventurer’s Guide is the latest, and...
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SERENDIPITOUS ART RETROSPECTIVES
THERE’S A BENEFIT in decluttering: Things previously forgotten bring renewed joy. For instance, over the years I’ve been to the Canadian Grand Prix several times. And in one of the them I combined...
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WHAT DO MUSSELS HAVE IN COMMON WITH MODEL T FORDS?
OR, IF YOU PREFER modern technology, mussels and jet engine turbines? The answer is the metal vanadium. Here are tidbits on this commonality gleaned from Science magazine and from my usual Internet...
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GOSFORD PARK—SORTA PREQUEL TO DOWNTON ABBEY
I DELIGHT IN the works of Julian Fellowes, especially his film Gosford Park and TV series Downton Abbey. That a sole writer composed the scripts for these wonderful English period pieces is amazing....
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MY FOUR-STROKE HOLOGRAM
A HOLOGRAM, WIKIPEDIA EXPLAINS, “is made by superimposing a second wavefront (normally called the reference beam) on the wavefront of interest, thereby generating an interference pattern which is...
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ON TRIGGING
QUITE APART FROM slang for trigonometry, I always thought the verb “to trig” meant something like “to get the drift of” in the sense of revealing something: “He trigged to the con man’s scheme.” Well,...
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MAZDA RX-7—ENGINEERING WIZARD YAMAMOTO PERFECTS THE WANKEL
THE WANKEL ENGINE got off to a tough start. An early R&T citation quipped “Winkle winkle, little Wankel,/How I wonder if your crank’ll/Wind up all around itself/And you’ll end up on the shelf.”...
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