Are Whales Fish?
“When I was very young, I was suitably impressed to learn that, appearances notwithstanding, the whale is not a fish. Nowadays these questions of classification move me less; and it does not worry me...
View ArticleDigital History Hacks
I just sent the following off to Ralph Luker to add to Cliopatria‘s Hall of Fame for important history weblogs: It seems like just yesterday I was toasting Bill Turkel’s Digital History Hacks for...
View ArticleTechnology Grows On Trees
The question should not be, “Had Edison never lived, would we have had an incandescent light bulb?” but rather, “Had the Western world never discovered electricity, would non-Western cultures...
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2.0
This news has already gone out on other faster, more annoying social networking platforms, but it needs a mention here as well: this is my son Eli, born on Wednesday. He is beautiful and awesome. His...
View ArticleThe Golden Age of Blogging
I like the opening of Jonathan Sterne‘s first post back after summer vacation so much, I’m stealing it whole: Jonathan Sterne: Greetings, loyal rss aggregators, assorted robots, and extremely dedicated...
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Angels and Octopodes
Geoff Manaugh’s BLDGBLOG had a great post this summer with an imaginary Ghostbusters III treatment that was way cooler than any actual Ghostbusters sequel is likely to be. Halfway through the film,...
View ArticleSuper Buster Keaton Bros
With Buster Keaton as Mario, Mary Pickford as Princess Toadstool, Harold Lloyd as Luigi, and Fatty Arbuckle as King Koopa.
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The Secret Origin of Canada
John Ralston Saul’s A Fair Country: Telling Truths About Canada is a beautiful book, and it makes an appealing argument which I would really like to be true. Canada, Saul argues, is not a British...
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She Blinded Me With History
Jeremy Kalgreen’s Science! t-shirts are, obviously, awesome. It’s a sign of how much I’ve changed since the 1990s that I have not already ordered a closet of them. If another sign were needed, that...
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Discover Kymaerica
The Believer on the Kcymaerxthaere: The Kcymaerxthaere is a vast alternate universe created by Eames Demetrios, a California-based artist and filmmaker who began installing the plaques in 2003. The...
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