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The Kitten Tea Party

  • Rob MacDougall,
  • April 15, 2010
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The Kitten Tea Party, by Pat Morris, at Morbid Anatomy.

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Happy New Year

  • Rob MacDougall,
  • December 31, 2009
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(I don’t know about you, but I’d say this gives that Gary Coleman and Michael Hasselhoff picture a run for its money.) Happy New Year, friends and readers. All the best for 2010.

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The New Frontier

  • Rob MacDougall,
  • September 16, 2009
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I did not see the new G.I. Joe movie this summer…

…but I love the direction they took with the art direction and character designs.

Edit: Artist Dave Perillo‘s site.

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This Is My Blood You Drink

  • Rob MacDougall,
  • April 12, 2009
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101 Pop Culture Last Suppers.

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Let's Put The Future Behind Us

  • Rob MacDougall,
  • January 29, 2009
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Sergei Larenkov takes WWII-era photos of Russia, returns to where the photos were taken, matches up the shot and–oh, just click on the link. (Now, in English!)

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Ahoy-hoy! I am an associate professor at the University of Western Ontario, in London, Ontario, Canada, where I teach United States history and study the history of information and communication. My current research involves the history of pseudoscience and crank invention. I'm using computational methods like text mining and adaptive filtering to trace the circulation of "wrong, bad, or weird" science in 19th-century America. The goal is to draw lessons for our own time about the ways communication networks shape the ideas we have and share.

I am the author of The People’s Network: The Political Economy of the Telephone in the Gilded Age (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014) and several book chapters and articles. I also co-designed and directed Tecumseh Lies Here, an augmented reality game that commemorates and critiques the history of the War of 1812. And I co-host a bi-weekly podcast that explores the history and culture of the 1970s and 80s through the lens of the classic sitcom, WKRP in Cincinnati. I received a Ph.D. in History from Harvard University in 2004.

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