Luctor et Emergo

Author: Tony Dalmyn

  • Getting Tires Right

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    Tires Pneumatic Modern tires allow cyclists to ride pavements, gravel, trails, dirt, mud, and other surfaces. Pneumatic tires, pneumatically inflated with compressed air, were invented and industrially produced before the end of the 19th century. Earlier, solid rubber was used to manufacture bicycle tires. It was better than other material. Getting a bouncy wheel that…

  • The Diet Myth

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    The title of Tim Spector’s 2015 book The Diet Myth refers to one “myth”. The book begans with an Introduction that discusses the author’s midlife health crisis when his blood pressure rose suddenly, and present an overview of his research into the modern diet. The Introduction identifies the problems of deciding “what is good or…

  • Bread, Pizza & Salt

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    Pizza is a leavened flatbread, usually leavened with yeast. Like other bread, it is made with salt. A pizza made from scratch at a restaurant or at home can have more salt, processed cheese and processed meats than a person should eat. Making pizza dough is similiar to making bread. A pizza crust can be…

  • Populism vs. Elites – who is elite

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    The United States of America was founded as a republic. It does not recognize that members of a hereditary aristocracy have formal legal power to make laws or command other persons, or any personal legal rights and privileges. America has social classes, based on wealth and income. Sociologists recognize 6 classes: Some sociologists and political…

  • Bike Chains Index

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    This is Part 9 of a series of 9 posts organized as a single work, collectively “endless”. There are 8 parts, individually published as posts on this blog. This post, Part 9, is a table of contents. I first wrote the posts listed here in 2022. I made corrections and changes. This is the table…

  • Cory Doctorow’s Web Presence

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    I read Cory Doctorow’s didactic dystopian near future Speculative Fiction (“SF”) Young Adult (“YA”) novels Pirate Cinema, and Walkaway, and the collection of novellas Radicalized in the last few years. I recall his story “When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth“, published in his 2007 collection Overclocked and widely reprinted. I have recently read his novels Little…

  • Bike Chains, Part 8

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    An endless post This is Part 8 of a series of 9 posts organized as a single work, collectively “endless”. There are 8 parts, individually published as posts on this blog, and a table of contents of the series in the 9th post. The series is organized into sections, numbered for reference, in the series…

  • The Way We Eat Now

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    The Way We Eat Now, a 2019 book by British writer Bee Wilson discusses paradoxes of food in the modern world: the success of farmers in growing enough food to feed the world, the inequalities of access to food, and the prevalence of unhealthy eating. Ms. Wilson does not identify herself as a chef, biologist,…

  • Index (a Book)

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    Index, by Dennis Dutton, was favourably reviewed in the Times Literary Supplement, the Guardian, the NY Times and the Washington Post. I put a hold on it while the Greater Victoria library system had it on order. As the reviews promised, the book has anecdotes about British writers, including the historian MacAulay, the 18th century…

  • Kermode and Mayo leave the BBC

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    I have listened to Kermode and Mayo’s Film Review podcast on an iPod and more recently on podcatcher apps on my phones, since 2011. The podcast was a recording of a radio program broadcast on the BBC Radio 5 channel in the UK, with added audio. In the podcast on April 1, 2022, Simon Mayo…