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Science Fiction and Other Suspect Ruminations
Reviews of Vintage Science Fiction (1945-1985) Editor’s Note: Excellent blog covering the depths of origin science fiction. Site: https://sciencefictionruminations.com/2024/07/11/short-story-reviews-clifford-d-simaks-conditions-of-employment-1960-retrograde-evolution-1953-and-youll-never-go-home-again-variant-title-beachhead-1951/Highly recommended to follow!
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Moving or ending…
It was fun, thanks for the site and business plan (WORDPRESS), and good luck with your fight. I will keep a free blog here, or move to another site. I am retired, and can no longer afford this hobby news blog. Thank care, keep #resisting, DrWeb
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Blog hiatus
I’ve taken a break from the blog, roughly from May 1, 2023, until July 29th, 2023. Blog posts resuming… Thanks, DrWeb 🙂
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How “It’s a Wonderful Life” Almost Never Happened | Library of Congress Blog | Library of Congress
By Neely Tucker, December 21, 2022 Elizabeth Brown is a reference librarian in the Researcher and Reference Services Division. This article appears in the Library of Congress Magzine, Nov.-Dec. 2 Perhaps the most beloved Christmas film of all time got its start during a morning shave. Philip Van Doren Stern, while getting ready for work…
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Frank Drake and the Drake equation – Explaining Science | Blog
By Steve Hurley, Posted on September 5, 2022 I was saddened to find out about the recent death, at the age of 92, of Frank Drake, one of the pioneers of SETI. One of the things he is most famous for is the equation bearing his name which estimates the number of intelligent civilizations in…
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Bill Russell: In His Own Words | Library of Congress Blog
Published August 1, 2022 by Neely Tucker Bill Russell, who died Sunday at the age of 88, was a towering figure in American life. Standing, he went 6 feet, 10 inches. In history, he seemed to stride the continent like Paul Bunyan, like John Henry: mythical, impossible, huge. He won basketball titles everywhere he went…
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READING THE STARS: The Whitman Authorized Editions of the 1940s | Now See Hear! | Library of Congress
By Cary O’Dell, July 20, 2022 Today, movie stars are easily accessible to us: on TV, by way of streaming services and, of course, via the internet, usually even via that star’s very own Twitter and Instagram. In fact, celebrities—of every conceivable stripe–are so omnipresent that it seems hard to imagine, or remember, a time…
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War as They Saw It | Library of Congress Blog | Library of Congress
By Neely Tucker, May 22, 2022 — This is a guest post by Nathan Cross, an archivist in the American Folklife Center. It first appeared in the Library of Congress Magazine. Service members long have used photography as a means of capturing the essence of their experiences. As technology improved, cameras became more available, and…
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Frederick Law Olmsted: A Well Designed Bicentennial | Library of Congress Blog
April 28, 2022, by Neely Tucker This is a guest post by Barbara Bair, a historian in the Manuscript Division. This month, the Library is recognizing this week’s bicentennial of the birth of writer, administrator and landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted, designer of the U.S. Capitol grounds and public parks and spaces around the country.…
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The Russian Invasion of Ukraine: Resources at the Library of Congress | Library of Congress Blog
March 3, 2022 by Neely Tucker The Russian invasion of Ukraine is the latest violent development in a long and turbulent history in the land of the steppes, and the Library has international resources on the region that go back for hundreds of years. You can learn a lot here, from one of the first…
