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Here's a selection of some of my favorite posts of the past four weeks or so:
Telegraph “Fax”, 1895. Transmitting Images by Wire & 150 Year-Old Emoticons
Buckle-up for the Nuclear Holocaust: Norbert Wiener’s Terrifically Bad Idea
The Most Lethal Number: M-69 vs. U-235 (Japan , 1945)
Space 1898: Pre-Modern Space Flight
Connections: from Plugging Gibraltar to Shakespeare’s Memories in One Step
Vision: Looking Straight Up, Down, Across and Through--1525-1905
The World's "Best" Address? POB
1663, Santa Fe . Home of the Atomic Bomb
Nazi Designers of Current Corporate Logos: Franziskaner Beer's Nazi Connection
Sound Machines and Acoustic Memory: Ephemeral Sound Landscapes
Deathly Equality: Liberty & Lung Cancer, Cigarettes and Women’s Rights, 1929
The False Paris --a City Created to be Bombed, 1917/1918
Maps of the Cosmos of Moles, 1671: Astrology, Pseudoscience & Furious Belief
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