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SINGAPORE STARS
MICHELIN GUIDES WERE originally developed in 1900 to help French motorists identify motor car mechanicians as well as restaurants. Based on anonymous reviewers, Michelin began recommending restaurants...
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ETYMOLOGY: THUG
I RECOGNIZED that the word “thug” had to do with Hindi thugees, but that was where my knowledge ended. Now that we have a thug in our country’s highest office, I thought it appropriate to learn more...
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THE MISSING MONA CAPER
ON AUGUST 21, 1911, Leonardo da Vinci’s famed Mona Lisa disappeared from The Louvre’s Salon Carré, not to return to the museum until 1914. Was the culprit Vincenzo Peruggia simply performing an act of...
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A CHRISTMAS CAROL ANNOTATIONS
WHAT WITH CHRISTMAS only four days away, I have just completed my annual reading of Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, in the annotated edition, of course. The Annotated Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens,...
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ON ENGLISH TEAS
PLEASANT MEALS IN English homes, mentioned recently at SimanaitisSays, remind me of that quintessential English practice of afternoon teas. Here are tidbits on the subject, gleaned from a little book...
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TWO LIBRARIES LOVED BY BOB
BOB ECKSTEIN IS a talented illustrator, cartoonist, and writer frequently appearing in The New Yorker, The New York Times, and Mad Magazine. In my book, high praise indeed. His recent Sketchbook item...
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WITH A SONG IN OUR HEARTS (ALL OF US)
PEOPLE SING. ALL people, with surprisingly fewer differences between cultures than within any one culture. Science, November 22, 2019, describes this in “The World in a Song,” by W. Tecumseh and Tudor...
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NANOSTORAGE: A KEY TO EFFICIENT ELECTRIFICATION
IT SOUNDS OXYMORONIC: using the incredibly tiny world of nanomaterials to optimize storage of anything. But look a little deeper: On the nano scale, the right materials have gobs of open spaces, just...
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SHARING DATA GRAPHICALLY
WE’RE SEEING a Golden Age in the sharing of data through pictures. Here are tidbits of this, gleaned from here and there with my usual Internet sleuthing. Thank René. In 1637, French mathematician and...
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2019 IN REVIEW
BACK WHEN I started my R&T “Tech Tidbits” column in 1992, I was worried that one day I would run out of things to write about. A similar worry surfaced in August 2012 when SimanantisSays made its...
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