Author Archives: Granger Meador
Overpowered and Underbrained
When Jerry Siegal and Joe Shuster channeled youthful male wish fulfillment into the bulging muscles of Superman, clad in the costume of a circus strong man, they first gave him super strength, speed, and invulnerability. However, he couldn’t fly when … Continue reading
Buy Yourself Better JIS Screwdrivers
The English inventor John Frearson patented a screw with a cruciform socket in 1873. His design was often used in marine hardware until the 1980s. However, the cruciform screw we in the USA are familiar with is the Phillips design, … Continue reading
News Contractions
The last of the original radio news services, CBS News Radio, will close on May 22, 2026. Below is President Franklin Delano Roosevelt doing one of his famous “fireside chats” in 1940. You probably recognize the NBC and CBS microphones. … Continue reading
Turn Your Radio On
Turn your radio on and listen to the music in the air…is a gospel song written in 1938 by Albert Edward Brumley. Born in 1905 in Indian Territory, near what is now Spiro, Oklahoma, Brumley’s success with I’ll Fly Away … Continue reading
Job Vulnerabilities to AI
The exposure of workers to job displacement by artificial intelligence (AI) has been a topic of interest for several years. Sam Manning & Tomás Aguirre of The Centre for the Governance of AI, joined by Mark Muro and Shriya Methkupally … Continue reading
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