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Joshua Blu Buhs
Last August, two men in rural Georgia announced that they had killed Bigfoot. The claim drew instant, feverish attention, leading to more than 1,000 news stories worldwide—despite the fact that nearly everyone knew it was a hoax. Though Bigfoot may
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Joshua Blu Buhs
Sometime in the first half of the twentieth century, a coterie of fire ants came ashore from South American ships docked in Mobile, Alabama. Fanning out across the region, the fire ants invaded the South, damaging crops, harassing game animals, and h
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Joshua Blu Buhs
How a writer who investigated scientific anomalies inspired a factious movement and made a lasting impact on American culture. Flying saucers. Bigfoot. Frogs raining from the sky. Such phenomena fascinated Charles Fort, the maverick writer who scanne
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Joshua Blu Buhs
Publikováno v:
The Journal of Popular Culture. 46:38-58
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https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_________::8a42f50110b1bf1c9f89262d2f0f4230
https://doi.org/10.1111/jpcu.12015
https://doi.org/10.1111/jpcu.12015
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Joshua Blu Buhs
Publikováno v:
Journal of Southern History. 83:233-234
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https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_________::46a3a5fcb7d36d4f60b2b18bf1e5e33b
https://doi.org/10.1353/soh.2017.0073
https://doi.org/10.1353/soh.2017.0073
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Joshua Blu Buhs
Publikováno v:
Folklore. 121:61-80
This paper argues that the image of the computer geek that took shape around the turn of the twenty-first century borrowed elements from earlier American constructions of the wildman. In particular, the geek, like prior wildmen, compressed ideas abou
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https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_________::0bb3193d4237819a95733167a87c5a4b
https://doi.org/10.1080/00155870903482015
https://doi.org/10.1080/00155870903482015
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Joshua Blu Buhs
Publikováno v:
Isis. 93:377-400
This essay uses an approach borrowed from environmental history to investigate the interaction of science and nature in a late twentieth-century controversy. This debate, over the proper response to fire ants that had been imported into the American
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https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_dedup___::e34f9ef39de61fb22623971656d85ec1
https://doi.org/10.1086/512523
https://doi.org/10.1086/512523
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Joshua Blu Buhs
Publikováno v:
Environmental History. 7:99-121
The winter of 1957-1958 was the worst that the American South had seen in fifty years, the mercury hovering below freezing for weeks and snow falling across the Southern coastal plain. For farmers in Decatur County, Georgia, however, April was the cr
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https://doi.org/10.2307/3985454
https://doi.org/10.2307/3985454
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Joshua Blu Buhs
Publikováno v:
The Fire Ant Wars: Nature, Science, and Public Policy in Twentieth-Century America
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https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_________::60f938f9bca8722930def03530135e36
https://doi.org/10.7208/chicago/9780226079844.003.0004
https://doi.org/10.7208/chicago/9780226079844.003.0004
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Joshua Blu Buhs
Publikováno v:
The Fire Ant Wars: Nature, Science, and Public Policy in Twentieth-Century America
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https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_________::7eb95ef3f74a9218334046103427f782
https://doi.org/10.7208/chicago/9780226079844.003.0002
https://doi.org/10.7208/chicago/9780226079844.003.0002