Brad Bolman
@brad.bolman.com
Historian @tulaneu.bsky.social
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Lab Dog is out now: www.labdogbook.com/
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~Views expressed may not reflect those of my employer~
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Brad Bolman
@brad.bolman.com
· Oct 22
When Baseball Threw Physics a Curve | Broadcast
Sports, science, and collective delusion.
pioneerworks.org
The World Series is almost here, so something a little different from my usual: I wrote about the surprisingly long debates about whether it's actually possible to "curve" a pitch. Candy Cummings, mass delusion, aerospace engineering, fascism. This one has it all
pioneerworks.org/broadcast/br...
pioneerworks.org/broadcast/br...
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In newly-constructed buildings, all-electric is cheaper overall, according to DOE studies. (Think heat pumps, not more gas.) There's also the climate crisis, and emissions from buildings are the largest source in New York State.
The House GOP is rolling back electrification measures. New from us:
The House GOP is rolling back electrification measures. New from us:
House GOP Advances Clean Energy Rollbacks
Gas hookup bans, showerhead water limits, and mobile home energy efficiency requirements were among the measures targeted by Energy and Commerce Committee Republicans this week.
readsludge.com
December 4, 2025 at 6:09 PM
In newly-constructed buildings, all-electric is cheaper overall, according to DOE studies. (Think heat pumps, not more gas.) There's also the climate crisis, and emissions from buildings are the largest source in New York State.
The House GOP is rolling back electrification measures. New from us:
The House GOP is rolling back electrification measures. New from us:
Spotify pays artists significantly worse than basically any other platform, I really don’t get the argument for staying on it compared to others
December 3, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Spotify pays artists significantly worse than basically any other platform, I really don’t get the argument for staying on it compared to others
Recently heard this song on local radio and want everyone to enjoy it as much as I do www.youtube.com/watch?v=iP6I...
"The Java Jive" (Ink Spots, 1940)
YouTube video by RReady555
www.youtube.com
December 3, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Recently heard this song on local radio and want everyone to enjoy it as much as I do www.youtube.com/watch?v=iP6I...
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It’s critical to make “climate‑aware, nationally consistent mapping information public. Our flood mapping program should be treated as critical national infrastructure, as important as the core weather forecasting that the National Weather Service provides.” Cost: $3-$12 billion.
This is the correct take on the whole Zillow fiasco
(and fire maps, and hurricane maps)
2023 PCAST report essentially called for this as well - it's been a recognized gap in capacity for years bidenwhitehouse.archives.gov/wp-content/u...
(and fire maps, and hurricane maps)
2023 PCAST report essentially called for this as well - it's been a recognized gap in capacity for years bidenwhitehouse.archives.gov/wp-content/u...
December 3, 2025 at 3:01 PM
It’s critical to make “climate‑aware, nationally consistent mapping information public. Our flood mapping program should be treated as critical national infrastructure, as important as the core weather forecasting that the National Weather Service provides.” Cost: $3-$12 billion.
In my book, I talk about the “dog-too” drug pipeline which wrings profit from human drugs by remarketing them (often needlessly) to companion animals and I could literally not imagine a clearer example than this
Recent estimates suggest that roughly 60% of the nation’s cats and dogs are obese, and hundreds of thousands have diabetes. GLP-1 drugs for pets could be the next frontier for the blockbuster weight loss and diabetes drugs.
Could Weight Loss Drugs Turn Fat Cats Into Svelte Ozempets?
GLP-1 drugs for pets could be the next frontier for the blockbuster weight loss and diabetes drugs.
nyti.ms
December 2, 2025 at 7:24 PM
In my book, I talk about the “dog-too” drug pipeline which wrings profit from human drugs by remarketing them (often needlessly) to companion animals and I could literally not imagine a clearer example than this
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Issue Sixteen of The Drift is now online for your reading pleasure! www.thedriftmag.com/issue/issue-...
Issue 16
Consider the horror. The theater of diplomacy and the drama of deal-making. An event like birth or bike riding. A minor skirmish in the class war.
www.thedriftmag.com
December 2, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Issue Sixteen of The Drift is now online for your reading pleasure! www.thedriftmag.com/issue/issue-...
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This is murder. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
November 28, 2025 at 6:16 PM
This is murder. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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Great piece updating the critique of culture industries for the age of the platform mega-rentier www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
The Same Stream Twice | Rob Arcand
Two recent books, Liz Pelly’s Mood Machine and Andrew deWaard’s Derivative Media, explore the consequences of these technological intermediaries for the music, film, and television industries. While P...
www.nplusonemag.com
November 27, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Great piece updating the critique of culture industries for the age of the platform mega-rentier www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
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why bother with dystopian fiction when the united states is already doing worse in real life
absolutely harrowing description of adx supermax in colorado boltsmag.org/death-row-cl...
November 27, 2025 at 2:49 PM
why bother with dystopian fiction when the united states is already doing worse in real life
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After 30 years in prison and 25 years on Louisiana's death row, Chris Duncan walked out of Angola today a free man.
"I'm cruising down a highway," he texted me. "Most glaring emotion is shock."
"I'm cruising down a highway," he texted me. "Most glaring emotion is shock."
November 27, 2025 at 1:02 AM
After 30 years in prison and 25 years on Louisiana's death row, Chris Duncan walked out of Angola today a free man.
"I'm cruising down a highway," he texted me. "Most glaring emotion is shock."
"I'm cruising down a highway," he texted me. "Most glaring emotion is shock."
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imagine what we could be doing if the federal government wasn't actively trying to throttle the growth of this industry
November 26, 2025 at 7:25 PM
imagine what we could be doing if the federal government wasn't actively trying to throttle the growth of this industry
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I wrote an essay for @bostonreview.bsky.social about what I learned about close reading when I taught at West Virginia University
www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...
www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...
The Claims of Close Reading - Boston Review
Literary studies have been starved by austerity, but their core methodology remains radical.
www.bostonreview.net
November 26, 2025 at 3:14 PM
I wrote an essay for @bostonreview.bsky.social about what I learned about close reading when I taught at West Virginia University
www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...
www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...
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“I realized that you get a radically different view of modern science when you approach it not by following particular scientists or disciplines, but the dogs themselves.” @bolman.bsky.social discusses his new book, LAB DOG, with Marc Bekoff of @psychologytoday.com.
Lab Beagles: What Science and All of Us Owe To Research Dogs
Brad Bolman's new book is a must-read about how and why beagles became research animals and what "beagling" through the history of science tells us about ourselves and the world.
buff.ly
November 26, 2025 at 4:22 PM
“I realized that you get a radically different view of modern science when you approach it not by following particular scientists or disciplines, but the dogs themselves.” @bolman.bsky.social discusses his new book, LAB DOG, with Marc Bekoff of @psychologytoday.com.
A real treat to chat briefly with Marc Bekoff about Lab Dog www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/anim...
Lab Beagles: What Science and All of Us Owe To Research Dogs
Brad Bolman's new book is a must-read about how and why beagles became research animals and what "beagling" through the history of science tells us about ourselves and the world.
www.psychologytoday.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:53 PM
A real treat to chat briefly with Marc Bekoff about Lab Dog www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/anim...
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Joel, Ethan, bad news–good news: bad news is no more solo movies; good news is your budget just went up
If you were a despotic president, what movie would you force Hollywood to make? I want to see Quentin's Star Trek movie or maybe Kill Bill Vol 3.
November 25, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Joel, Ethan, bad news–good news: bad news is no more solo movies; good news is your budget just went up
I love @avcx.bsky.social crosswords and have gotten so much joy out of my subscription
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November 25, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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Gulp. Guys, AMERICAN SCARE was named one of Kirkus Review’s Best Books of 2025!
November 17, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Gulp. Guys, AMERICAN SCARE was named one of Kirkus Review’s Best Books of 2025!
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Jaw dropped. Trump Administration Removes Report on Missing and Murdered Native Americans, Calling It DEI Content
Trump Administration Removes Report on Missing and Murdered Native Americans, Calling It DEI Content - Oklahoma Watch
The Trump administration removed a congressionally mandated report on missing and murdered Native Americans from the DOJ website, citing compliance with an executive order against DEI. Senators who ch...
oklahomawatch.org
November 17, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Jaw dropped. Trump Administration Removes Report on Missing and Murdered Native Americans, Calling It DEI Content
Kind of losing it over the idea of the "Betrayal index" in football
November 17, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Kind of losing it over the idea of the "Betrayal index" in football
There’s never been a better time to buy Lab Dog and some other delights
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November 16, 2025 at 7:50 PM
There’s never been a better time to buy Lab Dog and some other delights
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1/ I’d like to share what’s happened since Sept. 30, the night of the most dramatic raid of the Trump administration’s Operation Midway Blitz in Chicago. Under the cover of darkness, 37 immigrants were taken from an apartment complex …🧵
November 16, 2025 at 3:17 PM
1/ I’d like to share what’s happened since Sept. 30, the night of the most dramatic raid of the Trump administration’s Operation Midway Blitz in Chicago. Under the cover of darkness, 37 immigrants were taken from an apartment complex …🧵
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“The only durable response to Sudan’s famine lies with its own civilians, who must be empowered to resist the militarization of hunger,” Shahad Elfaki argues in a new Dispatch from Issue Sixteen.
www.thedriftmag.com/a-grotesque-...
www.thedriftmag.com/a-grotesque-...
A Grotesque Deadlock
Since the outbreak of war in Sudan in April 2023, nearly thirteen million people have been internally displaced and prices in Darfur have soared.
www.thedriftmag.com
November 13, 2025 at 3:46 PM
“The only durable response to Sudan’s famine lies with its own civilians, who must be empowered to resist the militarization of hunger,” Shahad Elfaki argues in a new Dispatch from Issue Sixteen.
www.thedriftmag.com/a-grotesque-...
www.thedriftmag.com/a-grotesque-...