Evelyn asks JSF Q– 36:28 – This is one place where I fall off the rails. She asked me a question and my obnoxious, intellectual, professor-self emerges. . . for far too long. [I could have said, “I have some thoughts about that, but I’d like to hear yours first.”] Instea...
Hugh Howey & John Joseph Adams editors, 2024 Mariner. Among the 20 stories, my favorite was the “The Long Game” by Ann Leckie, fromThe Far Reaches, John Joseph Adams editor, 2023 Amazon Original Stories. My overall rating for the stories included was 3.6/5, or “Very good”. I recom...
The search for a pen that didn’t leave blobs of ink was a long one. It resulted in the invention of the ballpoint pen, thanks to contributions by John J. Loud and László Bíró.
It is the most perfect form of English.” His style, however, must be acknowledged to want force—to be easy rather than vigorous; and it has not the splendid march of Jeremy Taylor, or the noble power of Savage Landor. 10. Richard Steele ( 1671-1729 ), commonly called “Dick ...
…I include this ad for Taylor Instruments because it features an illustration byErvine Metzl, who would become known for his posters and postage stamp designs… …Metzl’s design of a three-cent stamp commemorating the 1957–1958 International Geophysical Year… ...
broke into the Top 50 seven weeks ago, replacing Trump Doonbeg of County Clare, Ireland. I had never heard of Minerva Lake, much less played it, so I called Professor Charles Eppes at the California Institute of Science. “Yo, Eppes,” I said, “what’s the scoop on this Minerva track...
Taylor Swift will marry her boyfriend. The rate of worldwide species extinction will continue at unprecedented rates, matched only by the collective denial of politicians and corporations (which, as it turns out, are not people). Jennifer Lopez will marry Michael B. Jordan, resulting in J-Lo-...
The approximation step comes from the approximation log(1 +x) ≈xfor smallx, a first order Taylor approximation. The last line would be 2 rather than 2.05 if we replaced 72 with 100 log(2) = 69.3. That’s where the factor of 69.3 mentioned above comes from. ...
Khan (UCSI University, Malaysia), Noor Zaman Jhanjhi (Taylor's University, Malaysia) Copyright © 2024. 421 pages. In the rapidly evolving landscape of Industry 4.0, integrating digital technologies into supply chain management (SCM) presents opportunities and challenges. While I... ...
Posted on June 8, 2023 by John Taylor The President of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, James Bullard, posted a very clear analysis of this question, addressing whether the Federal Reserve had raised the federal funds interest rate enough. The title of his analysis is what I used ...