Afflictor: Looking forward to next week's Time magazine cover about gun control. (Image by François R. Cambuzat.)
- Recent Films Now on Home Video:
A Dangerous Method + General Orders No. 9.
- Old Print Article: Brooklyn clan plans to eat dead horse (1895) + Lousy pathologist thinks man had a camel liver (1898) + Girl runs away, follows circus (1894).
- Classic Photograph: Jess Dixon Floating, It Appears, In a Flying Car (1936).
- Featured Videos: Howard Cosell’s ABC comedy show promo (1975) + Carl Jung speaks in his last years (1959) + Michelangelo Antonioni looks at the future of technology (1982) + Christopher Hitchens eviscerates Mother Teresa (1994) + The 1911 Indy 500 winner appears on a game show (1961) + B.F. Skinner clarifies his child-rearing practices + Alan Abel pranks: Bureau of Sexological Investigation (1981), Tennis-playing sheik (1970s) + Phony Howard Hughes press conference (1972).
- Recently Posted on NYC’s Craigslist: You don’t want to know my dinner plans + I have failed so many drug tests + It’ll be like open-mike night in your living room.
- From Frankenstein to Facebook, we’ve used electricity to create friends.
- Starting in the ’80s, Americans were encouraged to relate to the wealthy.
- Turning people into abstractions can be very helpful or very hurtful.
- Robert Reich explains why socialism isn’t the answer to economic disparity.
- DARPA intends to implant microchips inside American soldiers.
- Charles Fishman thinks Las Vegas is the most water savvy area of the U.S.
- Paper books may exist in the future, but they will be different.
- Pegasus Worldwide plans to build an insta-ghost town in New Mexico.
- Lewis Mumford thought the invention of clocks made capitalism possible.
- Kevin Kelly explains how we can influence the character of technology.
- Ernest Callenbach wrote a 1975 novel that imagined a green, radical future.
- Human remains were used in medicine for centuries.
- Gambling on ponies in Hong Kong goes high-tech.
- Farhad Manjoo doesn’t know how Amazon will profit from Kindle Fire.
- Airplanes, like poetry, are beautiful and unprofitable.
- In addition to terrible food, McDonald’s now has its own TV channel.
- It would seem that jogging can extend the average lifespan.
- Retinal implants to cure blindness are now being used in earnest.
- Intelligent Networked Coffee Kiosks have robistas make your coffee.
- Greil Marcus recalls how he came to leave Rolling Stone.
- The Urban Flower was designed as if it was the first automobile ever.
- A brief note from 1897 about a big lobster.
- A brief note from 1895 about a man who took poison.
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