(2022) A lovely tool for a long vanished Mesopotamian technology, to impress cuneiform signatures onto clay cylinder seals, typically to authenticate legal documents such as contracts, receipts (as in a receipt for a shipment), deeds, wills and like that. Which is how far back paperwork goes, to the dawn of civilization. Except that it wasn’t […]
Franklin and Vine, 1890s, just a couple blocks north of Hollywood and Vine. Hollywood Blvd—then called Prospect Avenue, a graded dirt road—was already there, but nothing else made it past the 1920s, when Hollywood’s Arcadian past disappeared under studio lots and pavement. This view looking south was all city in a generation or two, the […]
Brick's Science 
Respect for the scientific method is little to be found anywhere in the popular culture, with the possible exception of what is simple and dramatic — dinosaurs! Witness the anti-vaccination movement as a particularly depressing example. It doesn’t help that modern physics has produced “theories” which belie the term by being merely elegant mathematical games, which are not testable against reality. Then there’s the fact that we have to have “equal time” for “both sides” (as if every question of fact was divisible into 50% yes and 50% no, instead of one side having overwhelming evidence.)
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