With or without edtech.
Earlier today, my Twitter friend Jon Becker @ed me a link to an EdSurge essay about edtech and refrigerators, suggesting that I was "the only person qualified to comment on…
Career highlight.
My favorite museum in America interviewed me about refrigerators and refrigeration.
“You got so much to do and only so many hours in a day.”
From start to finish (minus another book in the middle) it took thirteen years to get Refrigeration Nation into print. The problem was deciding the level of focus that I…
Your mid-summer refrigeration history update.
Why haven't I been blogging more? Writing. Refrigerator is now out of my hands and is scheduled to appear in September. I wrote that last summer as something of a…
“How a Massachusetts man invented the global ice market”
With a title like that, it should surprise you not at all that I get quoted in this Boston Globe story. In fact, the reporter did a good enough job…
“[E]ntertaining, well-narrated and well-researched”
The Business History Review review of Refrigeration Nation has arrived (subs. req.). Here's my favorite part: "In foregrounding cold chains, Rees has written an entertaining, well-narrated, and well-researched book about…
Yeah, that’s going on the back cover of the paperback edition.
"On the whole, this is a smart and illuminating book that will be of great interest to anyone engaged with either the history of technology or the history of food."…
Icebox v. refrigerator.
Our DH seminar homework for tonight is to write a brief blog post considering how we might use text mining in our upcoming digital history projects. Unfortunately for me, a…
