Spring 2015

Columns

Inventory / Good Boy

George PendleHonoring animal bravery

George Scheer and Stephanie ShermanGrandma Gray and the postwar American economy

Sasha ArchibaldThe shark liver oil craze of the 1940s

Hayden WilliamsTragedy or farce?

Stassa EdwardsLondon’s Great Stink of 1858

Carmen WinantThe contributions and contradictions of a feminist icon

Adam MorrisThe flume ride as a legacy of West Coast logging

Margaret Wertheim and Neil SloaneThe online encyclopedia of integer sequences

Matthew SpellbergHelplessness and inner life

William FirebraceArchitecture, technology, and the Soviet dream of the cosmos

D. Graham BurnettBetting on disaster

Walter BenjaminA historic convulsion

George Prochnik and Anson RabinbachApocalyptic thought in the aftermath of the world wars

Maria GoliaEarth’s meteoric past, present, and future

Patrick LyonsGoing to ground

Better in the abstract than in the concrete

Thermal expansions

CabinetIn the nooks and crannies