Category Archives: history
The Post Is Going Out of Print…Again
A century ago, many magazines printed shorts stories and serialized or abridged novels. A couple of dozen major commercial “slicks” were printed on glossy paper, joined by hundreds of cheap paper “pulps” which concentrated on genres such as westerns, science … Continue reading
The Long Aftermath of Corporate Raiders
The petroleum industry in the 1980s experienced a wave of multi-billion-dollar mega-mergers and hostile takeovers driven by a global oil glut, falling crude oil prices, and undervalued stock reserves. DuPont acquired Conoco in 1981, U.S. Steel bought Marathon Oil in … Continue reading
The Diffusion of Innovations
Back in 1957, the Diffusion of Innovations theory was developed by Joe M. Bohlen, George M. Beal and Everett M. Rogers at Iowa State University. It was originally applied to agriculture and home economics, but it was later applied across … Continue reading
Bartlesville in the State of Sequoyah
Alternate histories have been a literary trope for over two thousand years. Livy posed the question, in Parts 17-19 of Book 9 of his From the Founding of the City, “What would have been the results for Rome if she … Continue reading
Closing Windows
After forty years, I have finally bidden farewell to Microsoft Windows. I had stopped using it at home in the spring of 2024, and my retirement at the end of June 2026 meant that I no longer used it at … Continue reading
Meador Manor 