Afflictor: Thinking the "Sports Illustrated" Swimsuit Issue will change after Rick Santorum becomes President.
- Old Print Articles: Former cat-meat salesman turns to horse theivery (1876) + Joseph Faber’s amazing talking-machine (1870).
- Classic Photographs: Mochida Family, Tagged, Headed for Internment Camp (1942).
- Featured Videos: Pierre Trudeau’s cult of personality (1968/72) + Marshall McLuhan’s bull session with artist Harley Parker (1967) + Make it rain for a pole-dancing robot + Focus retroactively with the Lytro camera + Texas heart doctors create life without a pulse + Harpo Marx questioned by Johnny Carson (1961) + DARPA sets robot speed record + Pierre Cardin at his most futuristic (1970) + Rev. Dr. Billy Graham on What’s My LIne? (1960) + The Handroid movable robot hand + Billie Jean King vs. Bobby Riggs (1973) + Pedestrian energy used to light streetlamps + Neil deGrasse Tyson testifying about a mission to Mars in D.C. + William F. Buckley meets Otto Preminger (1967).
- Recently Posted on NYC’s Craigslist: I want you to be as fat as I am + And Che Guevara works at the deli I go to + If you are a furniture salesperson, avoid me + No more KFC right before bedtime.
- Stats guru Bill James tells Bill Simmons about his early computer use.
- Andrew Grant’s Discover article proposes how we can survive a dying sun.
- Nick Bostrom thinks there’s a decent chance humans will become extinct.
- Adam Curtis examines religion impacting politics in America and Iran.
- The difficulty of replicating human skin in the lab.
- A look at the training of the next generation of Wall Street quants.
- Farhood Manjoo of Slate takes a dark view of the future of robotics.
- A 1972 Life profile of the already combustible chess champ Bobby Fischer.
- Ruth Franklin makes a case that Frankenstein was about childbirth.
- Neil deGrasse Tyson discusses America’s foundering space program.
- The medical advantages of computing in a liquid form.
- Why do NFL coaches keep making the same mistakes?
- Thinking about the coming onslaught of civilian drones.
- In his piece on hunger, Paul Salopek interviews Richard Leakey.
- A note from 1886 about quail-eating contests.
- A note from 1896 about a Kansas City carnival.
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