“In 1949, the U.S. Public Health and Services commissioned songs from Woody Guthrie as part of its anti-venereal disease campaign. Guthrie’s ‘V.D. City’ warned people of ‘cold lower dungeons where the victims of syph roll and cry.'”
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What Are Apps Doing With – And For – Ancient Greece And Rome?
“The Greeks and Romans recorded their worlds on papyrus and tablets made of wax or clay, and there’s a satisfying sense of continuity when you study their millenniums-old ideas on 21st-century tablets made of glass and metal.”