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Monthly Archives: August 2006
It’s dandy for your teeth
Dr. Reilling was my first dentist. Now I understand why his advice to me was always “brush-a-brush-a-brush-a.” It’s part of the song that Bucky Beaver sang to promote Ipana toothpaste. (Yes, Dr. Reilling was even older than me; I think … Continue reading
Posted in Health and Medicine, Television
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More fun with typography
Also via things magazine, Mark Z. Danielewski’s follow-up to House of Leaves is set to be released next month.
Posted in Words Words Words
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Whan that Aprill with his shoures soote
Via things magazine, the first seven lines of the Canterbury Tales, Flickrized.
Posted in Words Words Words
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Mind your punctuation
Jenny Hogan writes: Pluto is one of a new category of object to be known as ‘dwarf’ planets (which, not to be confusing, don’t fall under an umbrella term of ‘planets’, and must, by definition, be written with single quote … Continue reading
Posted in Physical Sciences
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Gary Duke
Laura Erickson remembers her Ph.D. advisor Gary Duke and explains her really interesting dissertation research. While I was rehabbing birds in the late 80s and early 90s, I had started puzzling through why nighthawks have brown, messy, smelly droppings once … Continue reading
Posted in In Memoriam, Natural Sciences
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More Metro
Although Zachary Schrag’s book doesn’t address the considerations that went into Metro having only tracks for local service (as opposed to, say, a third track for skip-stop service), it does remind us of the simple, descriptive, efficient names that architect … Continue reading
Posted in Transit in D.C.
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Some links: 5
“Nothing’s low to begin with.” Twenty-two lines from Nicholas Harp.
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Secret weapons
So the show that I just finished, The Gold Lunch, is a 12-minute monologue that comes at the end of an evening of shorter and longer one-acts. For an 8:00 curtain for the first show, I come on at about … Continue reading
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Less is more?
Via DCist, another organization dedicated to linking Montgomery and P.G. County suburbs with light rail. See also the Inner Purple Line. My predeliction is for heavy rail, but I look at the twisty alignments that are being discussed, and I … Continue reading
Posted in Transit in D.C.
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More equal than others
Via The Morning News, the International Astronomical Union goes all inclusive on us, and decides Pluto can still be called one of the planets, albeit as part of a new second-class category called plutons, reports Alok Jha.
Posted in Physical Sciences
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Moving uptown
Via ArtsJournal, I am gratified to read that the New York revival of The Fantasticks in the Snapple Theater Center at Broadway and 50th Street will capture much of the ambience of the old Sullivan Street venue. The new space … Continue reading
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One for the techs
Fred Lewis’ preview piece for Silver Spring Stage’s Coyote on a Fence from last April features lighting designer Don Slater, including a correctly-exposed photograph of Don shining a lighting instrument in the direction of the camera.
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It Happened in 1956
Frederick Reines and Clyde L. Cowan, Jr., of the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory discover the first evidence of the neutrino in a chamber 12 m under the Savannah River nuclear reactor (called, in the August 1956 Scientific American article that … Continue reading
Posted in History, Like Life
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Control Panel > Display > Settings > Screen Resolution
Less is more: David Pogue, presbyopic, gets grumpy about text sizes on laptop computers. Leta’s parallel crusade is against print designers: the type on show programs, business cards, and food product labels is getting teeny-tiny.
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