Bench Grass

Bench Grass is a blog about the history of technology by the former student of a student of Lynn White. The main focus is a month-by-month retrospective series, covering the technology news, broadly construed, of seventy years ago, framed by fictional narrators. The author is Erik Lund, an "independent scholar" in Vancouver, British Columbia. Last post will be 24 July 2039.

Saturday, February 27, 2021

Postblogging Technology, November 1950, II: Platypus Time

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R_.C_., The Peninsula, Hong Kong Dear Father: Yours truly has caught up with events, so I am writing just days after I received my magazines...
Saturday, February 20, 2021

Postblogging Technology, November 1950, I: Neutrino Week!

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R_. C_., The Mayflower, Washington, DC Dear Father: In the sincerest hope that you haven't been shot by Puerto Rican nationalists, I wri...
Saturday, February 13, 2021

Sacred Spring: A Recap to February, 2021

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(Aeneas dumps Queen Dido, founder of Carthage, and goes off to found Rome instead, two separate ' Ver sacrum " episodes.) So she ki...
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Friday, February 5, 2021

The Early Iron Age Revival of the State: The Axial Age?

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  Not that I'm complaining or anything, but the Academia.edu algorithm can bombard you with tangents if once you reveal some idle curios...
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Friday, January 29, 2021

A Techno-Pastoral Appendix to Postblogging Technology, October 1950: The Chestnut Plague

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I am writing in late January about October of 1950, well after North America's Christmastime "chestnuts roasting over an open fire ...
Sunday, January 24, 2021

Postblogging Technology, October 1950, II: The Shogun and the Surprise

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R_. C_., The Mayflower, Washington, D.C. Dear Father: You find your darling Ronnie quite recovered from both her flu and her "tradition...
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Saturday, January 16, 2021

Postblogging Technology, October 1950, I: Double Brain with Garlic Butter

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R_. C_. Shaughnessy,  Vancouver, Canada Dear Father: Well here is the latest missive from the "unstable Pacific Rim." I'm a bi...
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