My review of Claudio Saunt's splendid West of the Revolution: An Uncommon History of 1776, originally posted here, is now live on Literal.
P.S. Check out Liz Covart's interview with the author for Ben Franklin's World Podcast here.
Global Warming Ate My Life by Shoshana Zuboff
The pivot as antidote to the error of predictability.
Andrea Jones' poetic, charming and informative Between Urban and Wild blog covers bluejays
> And see the Chasing Emma blog. (I was intrigued to find this since Emma was the editor of Art Magic, a book I found in Francisco I. Madero's personal library. You can view a first edition of Art Magic on archive.org. High octane stuff in there.) Be sure to click the tab to view the blog in "magazine" format, not "classic." In an earlier post he writes, "Why bother with another thesis on George Eliot, or another humdrum book on Aleister Crowley, when virtually the whole of Victorian occultism lies fallow in the noonday sun?" I say, here, here.
> And his page on Richard Dadd.
Ye Prophet of Yore Neil Postman on "The Surrender of Culture to Technology":
The Sociological Eye on Shutting Down the Internet in Time of War
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"The core problem is communication overload; the presence of information technology everywhere results in a situation that one general described as 'we’ve gone from network-enabled, to network-enamoured, to network-encumbered.'"Soothingly beautiful popups by artist Colette Fu:
Ollie!
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