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.

Monday, April 28, 2025

Postblogging Technology, January 1955, I: The Crash of '55

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R_.C_., Shaughnessy, Vancouver, Canada Dear Father: Well, here I am, a young mother and unemployed, like, apparently, very few other women i...
Sunday, April 20, 2025

Under the Ice: A Technological Appendix to Postblogging Technology, December 1954

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  The British Greenland Expedition has been over since the summer, and since I'm not going to bother going through the archives, I'm...
Sunday, April 13, 2025

What Light? A Technological Appendix to Postblogging Technology, December 1954

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  Brazilla Carroll Reece was  born in 1889 in Butler, a town in the far  northeast of Tennessee that was inundated by the Tennessee Valley A...
Sunday, April 6, 2025

Postblogging Technology, December 1954, II: The Big Gamble

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R_.C_., Shaughnessy, Vancouver, Canada Dear Father: As is by now my tradition of many years, I am writing a "letter" that I will b...
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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