Recovered Writing: Undergraduate Independent Study, Networks Between Science, Technology, and Culture After World War II, August 4, 2005

This is the twenty-first post in a series that I call, “Recovered Writing.” I am going through my personal archive of undergraduate and graduate school writing, recovering those essays I consider interesting but that I am unlikely to revise for traditional publication, and posting those essays as-is on my blog in the hope of engaging …

Recovered Writing: Undergraduate Thesis, Networks of Science, Technology, and Science Fiction During the American Cold War, December 12, 2005

This is the eighth post in a new series titled, “Recovered Writing.” I am going through my personal archive of undergraduate and graduate school writing, recovering those essays I consider interesting but that I am unlikely to revise for traditional publication, and posting those essays as-is on my blog in the hope of engaging others …

SC Republican Senator DeMint Wants to Torpedo FCC Efforts to Promote Net Neutrality

CNET posted the new bill proposed by Senator James DeMint and five other Republicans that would limit the FCC’s ability to promote net neutrality. Seeing that AT&T and Comcast have made sizable contributions to DeMint’s election campaign, it is unsurprising that he would clamber over his constituents and the citizens of the United States for the …

Paul Newman’s Contact With Science Fiction Criticism

I just read on the New York Times that Paul Newman passed away.  He was one of my favorite actors, most notably as Butch Cassidy in George Roy Hill’s 1969, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, and as Reg Dunlop in the best Hockey movie ever, released the year that I was born, Slap Shot …