Stories by samclemens

The curious history of chain letters (2010)

The love letter generator created by Alan Turing and Christopher Strachey

Tom Lehrer and Santa Cruz: the trail of one of America's premier satirists

I put up a fence in Maine. Why did it cause such a fuss?

The Unexpected Afterlife of Autobiography of a Face

George Eyser, the one-legged gymnast who astounded at the Olympic Games

Overexposed

An Accident in Space (1972)

Stalin, Eisenstein, Walt Disney and Ivan the Terrible (1992)

Uh-Oh: A story of SpaghettiOs and forgotten history

Survival Situation: The debate over evolution and its discoverer

Orwell: The Rewrite

Before 'Fans,' There Were 'Kranks,' 'Longhairs,' and 'Lions'

The technologies of all dead generations (2023)

The largest stegosaurus fossil ever found heads to auction

Hari Kunzru on Rereading the Classics

America's first board game can teach us about the aspirations of a young nation

What Is an Editor?

The Bestselling English Novels of the 19th Century, Ranked: Part One

Farewell, Chuck E. Cheese Animatronic Band

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