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.

Friday, March 28, 2025

The Early Iron Age Revival of the State, XXX: In The House of the Sea Lion

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 The remarkable correlation between geographic and genetic difference in European populations (Callaway (2008) via Bintliff ): (Okay, so thi...
Sunday, March 23, 2025

Postblogging Technology, December 1954: Home for the Holidays

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  R_.C_., Nakusp, Canada Dear Father: I have no idea whether we'll actually be able to make a family tradition of Christmas in Nakusp, b...
Thursday, March 13, 2025

International Geophysical Year: A Scientific Appendix to Postblogging Technology, November 1954

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  Last seen around here playing Calamity James as an adorable autist, Doris Day sings "Que Sera, Sera," an incomprehensibly popula...
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Sunday, March 9, 2025

The Comet Inquiry: A Technological Appendix to Postblogging Technology, November 1954

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  On 2 March 1954, Tudor I G-AGRI, belonging to a young Freddie Laker's Air Charter, Ltd, was flying 9500ft near Paris on a freight trip...
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Sunday, March 2, 2025

Postblogging Technology, November 1954, II: Flying in the Grass

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Because of boundary layer control R_.C_., Shaughnessy, Vancouver, Canada Dear Father: The cat is truly out of the bag after Senator Knowland...
Sunday, February 23, 2025

Postblogging Technology, November 1954: Buy Now, Pay Later!

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R_.C_., Shaughnessy, Vancouver, Canada Dear Father: Since James and I are a bit worried about our letters being intercepted, I will answer a...
Saturday, February 15, 2025

Aswan and Wittfogel: A Technological and History of Technology Appendix to Postblogging Technology, October 1954

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Britannica. Which lifted it from Shutterstock, how the mighty have fallen, etc.  The Aswan high dam is one of the biggest dams in the worl...
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