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, March 27, 2021

Postblogging Technology, December 1950, II: Christmas Corps

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  R_. C_., Shaughnessy, Vancouver, Canada Dear Father: I write, curled up in an alcove overlooking the front, replete with a post-Christmas ...
Saturday, March 20, 2021

Postblogging Technology, December 1950, I: Crisis!

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R_.C_., Shaughnessy, Vancouver, Canada Dear Father: This comes to you probably just a few hours before I leave for Macao for Christmas, prob...
Friday, March 12, 2021

Gathering the Bones, XXII: A Lacustrine Civilisation?

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The Great Pyramid at La Venta is 2400 years old, give or take. The fact that it is a clay mound erected in a lacustrine setting makes it ver...
Friday, March 5, 2021

A Technological and Scientific Appendix to Postblogging Technology, November 1950: Little Neutrons

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  Between 1959 and 1969, old time science fiction writers Frederick Pohl and Jack Williamson collaborated on three loosely-connected novels ...
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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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