In the spring of 1957, when he was eighty-one years old…
Just You Wait, by Chris Shiflett
On turning 50: a personal story about luck, curiosity, disillusionment, and hope.
Augmenting Long-term Memory
One day in the mid-1920s, a Moscow newspaper reporter named Solomon Shereshevsky entered the laboratory of the psychologist Alexander Luria. Shereshevsky's boss at the newspaper had noticed that Shereshevsky never needed to take any notes, but somehow still remembered all he was told, and had suggested he get his memory checked by an expert.
"Last night I got an email from someone who said 'I'm 46, is it okay to start producing music?' I said 'yes, start now!'": How a 67-year-old pensioner went viral performing industrial techno at home
What started as a post-retirement hobby has led The Last DJ to runaway success and his first gig in 40 years. Now he's on a mission to inspire others to do the same
Three important steps in my maturation process – Thomas Dullien / Halvar Flake
My father passed recently, and he was twice my age. I am approximately the same age that he was when I was born, and I am now “the old generation” - there’s no one left in the generation above me.
Tradition and the Individual Talent
Poems, readings, poetry news and the entire 110-year archive of POETRY magazine.
Child Prodigy Discovers Butterflies Remember Caterpillar Life, And Pass Down Memories To Offspring
Jo Nagai conducted an experiment on butterflies that would surprise scientists around the world. Are memories passed down?
Does Silicon Valley dream of Philip K Dick?
[FREE TO READ] His 1960s science-fiction visions are a guide to our age of erratic billionaires, wild space fantasies and glitchy, invasive technology
VC&G | » My memories of what life was like before the Internet
Adventures in vintage computers and retrogaming. Includes articles on classic games and obsolete computers.
George Tice, ‘Bard of New Jersey’ With a Camera, Dies at 86 (Published 2025)
He found beauty in the prosaic: bars, phone booths, hamburger joints, barber shops — first in a downtrodden Paterson, then throughout the state and beyond.
How Vinyl Records Are Made
The vinyl record--we've shown you how they were made way back in 1937, and also in 1956. But how about nowadays, during the renaissance of vinyl?
The little editor that could
Reading, and Understanding Media
A guidebook, and poetry more than prose, Marshall McLuhan's 1964 work remains one of our best resources for exploring the nature and effects of new media. It's not an easy read, so I'm going to help.
Anna Stansbury on Twitter / X
Nope. This paper is about US academics 1900-1960! The present looks different.Asking people to stop drawing inference from these stats as if they're about the present& asking authors to put time period in their title and abstract!🙏 https://t.co/bphnK6Hy7H— Anna Stansbury (@annastansbury) December 31, 2024
Why do we collect things?
Desire, nostalgia, loss, and completeness in the personal collections of Joseph Cornell, Peter Blake, and Vladimir Nabokov
How we got here
Wherein our hero, in this publication's inaugural, dates himself (as if others would) in a reminiscence of computers and websites past.