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HURRAH FOR THE PISTON FOUNDATION AND ITS SCHOLARS!
AUTO JOURNALIST EXTRAORDINAIRE (and another Lithuanian!) Judy Stropus shares information from The Piston Foundation describing its awarding 20 scholarships for 2024 to aspiring auto restoration...
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A VARIETY OF SCI-TECH TIDBTS
TALK ABOUT VARIETY! I CONFESS that many of the articles in AAAS Science pass miles over my head. (I won’t bore you with my life-long biological naivete; it’s beyond storks and babies, but not...
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SALON: HILL’S DINO THROUGH BERGANDI’S EYES
A “SALON” IN R&T was ordinarily a photographic essay on a classic. But this November 1984 Salon was no ordinary one: The topic was the 1961 Ferrari Dino 156 F1 that Phil Hill drove to the Drivers...
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MATH: THE A.I. BS STOPS HERE
QUOTED HERE AT SIMANAITISSAYS, A.I. machines “are hard-wired for bullshit. They aren’t designed to be accurate—they are designed to sound accurate.” And among human endeavors, mathematics is one that...
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POOR EX-PRESIDENT TRUMP
WHAT WITH A VERY BUSY NEWS WEEK, victim-extraodinaire Donald Trump has been displaced by Joe and Kamala. Poor him. To counter this Trumpian ennui, today’s SimanaitisSays recounts several past Trump...
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RIDIN’ THE RAILS—ASEA AND OTHERWISE
WHILE LIVING ON ST. THOMAS, we occasionally had the pleasure of dining aboard fancy cruise ships (when enough of their passengers chose STT cuisine that evening). Otherwise, I’ve never been on a...
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ART LOST BY SCHOOLGIRLS—SOME 350 YEARS AGO
WHAT A FIND! BRITAIN’S NATIONAL TRUST reports discovery of “A Display of 17th Century Papercuts,” July 15, 2024. Paper cuttings at Sutton House. This and following images from National Trust/James...
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SPEEDY OLYMPICS
“HOW FAST IS THAT GOING?” asks a fascinating question posed by Jeremy White, Joe Ward, Noah Throop, Emily Rhyme, and Bedel Saget in The New York Times, July 24, 2024. The article is set up as an...
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ENVIRONMENTAL SUCCESSES—OTHERS TO COME
WHAT WITH SUMMERS OF WITHERING HEAT across the country, indeed worldwide (45º Celsius = 113 Fahrenheit), only the dimmest of bulbs these days deny climate change. (You may remember, it even used to be...
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RALLYING IMPROVES THE BREED
“IT’S GREAT TO DRIVE A CAR,” R&T noted in October 1984, “that’s exactly what it claims to be. Whether you think of it as a rally version of the Montecarlo (tested in R&T in its U.S. Scorpion...
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