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Pessimists Archive Podcast

Pessimists Archive

Real, cynical old articles about new things read aloud. Based on @PessimistsArc.

PublishesTwice monthlyEpisodes12Founded5 years ago
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The Eiffel Tower is as iconic of France as croissants and baguettes, and equally emblematic of Paris as Notre-Dame or the Arc de Triomphe.

Yet, before completion for the 1889 World’s Fair - the project was treated by some as an industrialist “Tower ... more

In the 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic San Francisco quickly instituted a mask mandate, when it was repealed there was a countdown in the streets and jubilation as reported on the front page of The San Francisco Examiner. To the right of the report was a p... more

Did the rise of 19th century technologies - such as radio - lead to an increase in ghostly sightings? That’s the question Atlantic writer Derek Thompson asked on Twitter this week and it brought to mind a 1930s piece from the archive titled: Weird, G... more

At the end of the 1920s aeroplanes were becoming a more common sight in the skies, in 1928 The New York Times reported on growing public disdain, comparing it to past reactions to transport innovations like the automobile and bicycle. The piece was s... more

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  • Great fun

    I truly enjoy Pessimists Archive, originally as a blog and now as a podcast. It’s great fun to listen to the bloviations of (selected) nay-sayers of the past, while at the same time wondering about all the things I’m just as wrong about right now. And, it’s short!

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