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Book Review: Full Upright And Locked Position

Posted on April 26, 2024 by nathanalbright

Full Upright And Locked Position: Not-So-Comfortable Truths About Air Travel Today, by Mark Gerchick As a not terribly frequent but also deeply interested air traveler, I have long had an interest in the experience of flying, since the days when … Continue reading →

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Book Review: The Devil’s Element

Posted on April 8, 2024 by nathanalbright

The Devil’s Element: Phosphorus And A World Out Of Balance, by Dan Egan This book hit surprisingly close to home for me. As a child, I grew up in the area very close where Florida’s phosphorus business goes on, and … Continue reading →

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How To Market A Smart-Phone App

Posted on March 28, 2024 by nathanalbright

One of the seemingly undying questions of the contemporary world–if one judges the marketing that one sees in smart-phone apps as any indication–is how one is to make money in the contemporary world. While we cannot expect marketing (as much … Continue reading →

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Not Here For A Long Time

Posted on February 12, 2024 by nathanalbright

In order to protect the guilty, I will describe how I spent most of the time during the Super Bowl today. Thanks to a deal, I went to a particular place for lunch where I watched most of the Super Bowl … Continue reading →

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On The Disneyfication Of National Geographic

Posted on January 14, 2024 by nathanalbright

National Geographic, or Not Geo, was once the unofficial national geographer of the United States, and at some point–in 2019–the company was purchased by Walt Disney Company, where it always was a strange fit among their brands. Originally intended as a … Continue reading →

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Book Review: The Price For Their Pound Of Flesh

Posted on August 18, 2023 by nathanalbright

The Price For Their Pound Of Flesh: The Value Of The Enslaved, From Womb To Grave, In The Building Of A Nation, by Daina Ramey Berry If one wants to know what one is getting from this particular book, it … Continue reading →

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Book Review: The Ledger And The Chain

Posted on August 14, 2023 by nathanalbright

The Leder And The Chain: How Domestic Slave Traders Shaped America, by Joshua D. Rothman There are different kinds of historical works. Some historical works are monographs that seek to study in some degree of depth a very focused set … Continue reading →

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McAfee, Or, How Not To Advertise Your Anti-Virus System

Posted on August 9, 2023 by nathanalbright

I might have been willing to let this commercial slide from my critical commentary, but unfortunately they show up on a near-daily basis as a YouTube commercial that I have to click my way through, and so it is something … Continue reading →

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The Root Of The Problem

Posted on August 1, 2023 by nathanalbright

As someone who has always been deeply self-conscious of the regional nature of American culture and indeed my own regional identities, such as they are, and the influence of one’s region on one’s experiences within larger nations like the United … Continue reading →

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Is This The Real Life? Is This Just Fantasy?

Posted on July 28, 2023 by nathanalbright

What does the following list of movie have in common: Bohemian Rhapsody, Pearl Harbor, The Greatest Showman, The Pursuit Of Happyness, Straight Outta Compton, Elvis, American Hustle, Once Upon A Time In Hollywood, Pocahontas, Patch Adams, The Sound of Freedom, … Continue reading →

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