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ART DECO AT THE METROPOLITAN OPERA
I REALLY ENJOY ART DECO. And if you do too, have I got a deal for you on this Wednesday, April 24, 2024: The Metropolitan Opera HD Encore presentation of Puccini’s La Rondine. Check Fathom Events for...
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DIALECTS THAT I’VE HEARD, LIKE, Y’KNOW
A RECENT WORDS TRIVIA WEBSITE “Top 6 English Dialects That Sound Like Different Languages” got me thinking of dialects I have known. Here are tidbits gleaned from the Words Trivia article and from my...
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TIMEKEEPING—OBJECTIVE, GEOMETRIC, NUMERICAL, FRACTIONAL, DIGITAL
THE SANDS OF TIME ARE ONLY ONE way we describe its passage. The positions of stars and angled points of a sundial are geometric. We have numerals: “three fifty-two.” Also, fractions: “quarter to” and...
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PEKING TO PARIS—1907
THE CHALLENGE WAS SET by the Paris newspaper Le Matin on January 31, 1907: “What needs to be proved today is that as long as a man has a car, he can do anything and go anywhere. Is there anyone who...
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DALÍ DIALING
“YOU’VE GOT SALVADOR DALÍ ON LINE ONE.” Ask Dalí at the Dalí Museum in St. Petersburg, Florida. Image by Martin Pagh Ludvigsen/Goodby Siverstein & Partners via NPR. Details are given by Chloe...
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THE PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
THERE’S IRONY TO BE HAD in my having a Ph.D. in mathematics. This is at least in part because I spent the majority of my career working in automotive journalism, with only peripheral involvement in my...
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SNACKIN’ ‘ROUND THE GLOBE
DAUGHTER SUZ RECEIVED A NEAT-O GIFT from a friend: a subscription to Universal Yums, a company that can provide a box of snacks from a particular foreign country each month. They strive to select a...
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EV POLE-TO-POLE!
A TECHNOLOGY REPORT IN SAE International Automotive Engineering, April 2024, caught my eye: Cami Buchholz’ “All-Electric Nissan Ariya Handles Ultra-cold Temps on Pole to Pole Trek.” What’s this? What...
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FONTS CAN SAVE TREES
“HARPERCOLLINS MADE A TINY TWEAK to its Book Design—and Has Saved Thousands of Trees as a Result,” reports Elizabeth Segran in the Fast Company website, April 2, 2024. What’s more, readers aren’t...
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THE GREENEST CARS OF 2024—OVERALL
EACH YEAR THE AMERICAN COUNCIL for an Energy-Efficient Economy ranks cars on an overall measure. Not just the energy used in their propulsion, but also that employed in their manufacture and eventual...
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