Weekly Reading (2021/08/16)

Tommy Soloski: Illustration from the article “Putting a Finger On the Hp150” in Professional Computing (April 1984).

Selections from the Web:

• Britt H. Young: A One-Handed Writer’s Search for the Perfect Mechanical Keyboard
• Charles Glass: What Do You Do with a Billion Grams of Surplus Weed?
• Janet Manley: You Should Not Run Your Family Like a Business
• John Nichols: Richard Trumka, 1949–2021
• Kieran Delamont: Hush-Hush Boom-Boom
• Nadine Smith: Duty Bound

Books and Journal Articles:

Books:

• Richard Rhodes: The Making of the Atomic Bomb (1986). ISBN: 9780671441333

Journal Articles and Chapters:

• Daniel Immerwahr: ““The Ugly American: Peeling the Onion of an Iconic Cold War Text”,” The Journal of American-East Asian Relations, (2019)
• Ken Alder: “America’s Two Gadgets,” Isis, (2007)
• Raechel Lutz: “Petroleum’s Park: How Oil Shaped the Palisades Interstate Park, 1900–1960,” Technology and Culture, (2020)
• Thomas Streeter: “The Romantic Self and the Politics of Internet Commercialization,” Cultural Studies, (2003)

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