Origins: Peanuts
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Americans for more than a century have known peanuts primarily as a snack
food, but it didn't start out that way. Harvested by indigenous peoples of
P...
History of My Reading: Get Me Rewrite!
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Washington Newsworks had a weekly slot for a restaurant
review, which became a pain. I did a couple to fill in,
including one on French bistros called ...
Star Trek's End? (With Update)
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Just as I can't un-see what I saw in the fifth episode of *Star Trek:
Picard*, I wonder if the damage it has done to the Star Trek universe can
ever be und...
Jonathan Miller
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Of all the people I didn't know who died in 2019, I was most saddened by
the death of Jonathan Miller. He was an important presence at various
times in ...
Turning 72: I Dwell in Possibility
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This blog hasn't been active in awhile, but I did post on significant
birthdays here: turning 60 and turning 65. Now I've gone past the 60s. So
although ...
Early Warning
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Jeff Masters at Weather Underground unearthed this brief video excerpt from
a Bell Laboratory Science series episode in 1958, that includes a mention
of ...
R.I.P. Ada Louise
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I never met Ada Louise Huxtable, though for a brief period we were both
writing for the New York Times. She even quoted me in one of her books, and
I certa...
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