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Pulp Librarian
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Pulp Librarian
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Old books, movies and music. Keeping Twitter busy since 2014.
A library of the mind
Joined December 2014
- Japanese Playboy in the 1960s was, erm, pretty unusual!
- #NationalNappingDay: juvenile snow owls often sleep face down on the ground because the weight of their heads means they can't sleep when perched. This one, pictured in a Japanese wildlife park in 2017, may look like an ex-owl but he is only having a nap. HE IS NOT A DRUNK OWL!!
- Today in pulp: can you judge a book by its cover? Let's look at some unusual covers for popular novels and see...
- Actress and scientist Hedy Lamarr was born today in 1914. On 11 August 1942 she was awarded a patent for her idea of a "frequency-hopping spread spectrum" for use in torpedo guidance systems. Nowadays we call it Wi-Fi.
- #FridayThoughts: juvenile snow owls often sleep face down on the ground. The weight of their heads means they can't yet sleep when perched. This one (below), pictured in a Japanese wildlife park in 2017, may look like an ex-owl but he is only resting. HE IS NOT A DRUNK OWL!!
- In the 1970s the cost - and size - of calculators tumbled. Business tools became toys; as a result prestige tech companies had to rapidly diversify into other products - or die! This is the story of the 1970s great calculator race...
- Today in pulp... Blade Runner! Let's look back at the classic 1982 movie and see how it compares to original novel. "It's not an easy thing to meet your maker..."
