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Ben Gross
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John Merritt Associate Director for Research Services at the Harry Ransom Center; Author of The TVs of Tomorrow-How RCA's Flat-Screen Dreams Led to the First LCDs (Chicago 2018). Posting in a personal capacity.
Also Sarah Peters Kernan referenced Vallemont's work in an article on the Linda Hall Library's horticultural holdings, originally published in the library's Hedgehog newsletter:

www.lindahall.org/about/news/g...

#histSTM #botany #gardening #horticulture
December 7, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Want to learn more about the Abbé de Vallemont? As is so often the case, Bill Ashworth examined his work in a #ScientistOfTheDay blog post for the Linda Hall Library:

www.lindahall.org/about/news/s...

#histsci #philsci #histSTM 🗃️📜
December 7, 2025 at 8:44 PM
And it could be again!
December 6, 2025 at 4:28 PM
“It’s a race…It’s a chase…So hurry up and feed your face!”

https://youtu.be/N1sD75s3A4c?si=Gr_UBMEdfgeo4lDx

#RobotChicken
Robot Chicken - Board Game Movies: Hungry Hungry Hippos
YouTube video by Mr. Rupert
youtu.be
December 5, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Back then, people really got a positive charge out of going to the theater!
December 4, 2025 at 2:49 AM
Trying to remember if we had Alice-related music on display @ransomcenter.bsky.social during our #WordsAndWonder exhibition...

(We definitely had at least one screenplay...)

www.hrc.utexas.edu/exhibitions/...

#AliceInWonderland #ThroughTheLookingGlass
#filmsky #booksky 🗃️📜
December 3, 2025 at 8:08 PM
...and thank you for entrusting your papers to @ransomcenter.bsky.social so that future researchers can learn more about your creative process.

research.hrc.utexas.edu/fasearch/fin...

#TomStoppard #booksky #theatre 📜🗃️
Tom Stoppard: An Inventory of His Papers at the Harry Ransom Center
research.hrc.utexas.edu
November 29, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Maybe so...but surely there are enough fans of the Divine Comedy to make up for the difference!

In any case, I didn't splurge for myself. In an ideal world, the whole set would stay together and be preserved in library or museum.
November 26, 2025 at 4:03 PM
That's a strange way to spell "strawberry rhubarb"...
November 25, 2025 at 10:25 PM