Wednesday, April 29, 2020

A Technological But Also Pure Science Appendix to Postblogging Technology, January, 1944, II: The Secret Life of Stars

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I was not quite 19 when Ronald Reagan made his "Star Wars" speech on 23 March 1983, perfectly prepared by far too much libert...
Friday, April 24, 2020

Postblogging Technology, January 1950, II: Isolate and Sterilise

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R_. C_., Shaughnessy, Vancouver, Canada Dear Father: As I'm stationed at the edge of the world, no gossip this time round! Exc...
Saturday, April 18, 2020

Postblogging Technology, January, 1950: Straight out of Quarantine

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(In honour of True magazine, some old time science fiction.) R_. C_., Shaughnessy, Vancouver, Canada Dear Father: I bet you wer...
Thursday, April 9, 2020

The Bishop's Sea: The Hawk of the Atlantic

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A bit of an exercise in dilettantism here, but worth it because this stuff does seem to be neglected in the historiography of the "Rec...
Monday, March 30, 2020

An Economic-Technological Appendix to Postblogging, Winter 1947: Shutdown

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UBC Library is currently closed, 'cuz there's nothing that says social mingling and contagion like old books. The decision will be ...
Thursday, March 26, 2020

An Epidemiological-Technological Appendix to Postblogging Technology, 1943--49: The Iron Lung

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I'm not a medical kind of guy, so I've mostly stayed away from the human sciences side of things in these technological appendice...
Thursday, March 19, 2020

A Technological Appendix to Postblogging Technology, December 1949,II: Fun with Uranium

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As we've been hearing, during a 1 November 1949 television interview about, ironically enough, the need for more atomic secrecy, Sen...