Stories by samclemens

Embiggening English: The Simpsons and changing language

Paper Dresses and Psychedelic Catsuits: When Airline Fashion Was Flying High

Computers are People, Too: Disney documentary about computer art in 1982

A Wave of P.R. Data

Why Scientists Hate Their Journals

The Brotherhood of Recovering Addicts

Reactionaries in Space: Interstellar celebrates frontier expansion

Does Outer Space Have a History?

Escape from Jonestown

Soviet Prohibition and the Taste of Perfume

How Nabokov Retranslated “Laughter in the Dark”

Wobblies Past and Present

Benzene and worker cancers: 'An American tragedy'

Gustave Eiffel's secret apartment atop the Eiffel Tower

Yesterday's News

1989: America's Malls

What kind of funny is Kafka?

The first object manufactured outside of Earth

Mark Strand, 1934-2014

Finding John Updike, and Taking His Trash

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