Author: lcarlson

Research reported in TechSac about the physics behind toast falling butterside down: The cause: •  The buttered side is up after we butter the toast. •  Kitchen counters are waist-high •  When buttered toast falls from that...

  Wow, am I glad I’m a card-carrying dull man and don’t seek glitz and glam. I’m reminded of this when I see things like I saw last night in London. A velvet Ferrari. It was parked, of course, alongside...

Dear DMC, My bag arriving, coming around counterclockwise, at London Heathrow Terminal 1 this morning. Successful ending of a fine overnight trip from Washington Dulles. Strong tailwind, arrived 45 minutes ahead of schedule....

Yesterday I saw ‘Grey’ by Gerhard Richter at the Tate Modern. Naturally, I thought of the DMC. “The colour grey is the epitome of nothingness,” Richter says. His art is intended to be a complete...

The International Olympic Committee restored wrestling to the Summer Games — reversing its decision from last February to drop wrestling after the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. The problem for us now is the basis for the...