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Wednesday, April 12, 2023

When the Flight Goes Wrong, Data is All That Matters

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  Since 2017 I have flown overseas every year to every continent except Australia: almost 20 trips total. I have flown many airlines. In add...
Saturday, April 8, 2023

Gordon Moore: The Chemist at the Center of the High Tech Revolution Dies at 94.

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  In 1965 when I was twelve years old, I learned basic electronics from a 600-page book published by the Amateur Radio Relay League--the ham...
Wednesday, April 5, 2023

Flying Spirit was Delightful: Nothing like their emails

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  Last month I flew Spirit Airlines for the second time ever, and the first time in a decade. Like most cut-rate airlines they charge for ev...
Monday, April 3, 2023

Indianapolis Motor Speedway Museum

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Indianapolis Motor Speedway Museum The  Indianapolis Motor Speedway Museum has a collection of dozens of winning cars and a selection of sec...
Tuesday, March 28, 2023

Friend Gets Top Job: He Now Knows He Is An HMFIC

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  Mike McCoy, Interim Editor-in-Chief Chemical and Engineering News Today I ran into a friend I have known and worked with since the 1990s a...
Monday, March 27, 2023

A Visit to the Kurt Vonnegut Museum and Library

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In the middle of Indianapolis is a lovely little museum devoted to the life and works of a brilliant and crazy author of more than a dozen n...
Friday, March 17, 2023

Big Conspiracy Theories in a Small Town

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  I was in Myerstown, Pennsylvania, today. A small town north of Lancaster. I wanted coffee and saw there were three coffee shops near the...