Afflictor: Thinking Chelsea Manning should be considered for a Presidential pardon.
Your move, Barbara Obama.
- Old Print Articles: A tale of America’s first crematorium (1878) + Wealthy German man reinvents himself as a messiah (1921).
- Featured Videos: Tom Snyder interviews porn star Marilyn Chambers (1979) + Howard Cosell, Jack Dempsey, Rocky Marciano, Jimmy Cannon and W.C. Heinz discuss Ali-Liston II (1965) + PM Magazine profiles the Clash (1980) + Debbie Harry selling Gloria Vanderbilt jeans (1980) + Patti Smith visits Mike Douglas (1978) + Elvis Costello sells his vinyl record (1980).
- Recently Posted on NYC’s Craigslist: Bring the whole family to the Staten Island Mall + I’ve though about it a lot, and it was a tough call, but I prefer smelling like urine to living with mice + Even demons are avoiding me.
- Mike Jay’s piece about delusions and technology is my favorite essay this year.
- Ron Paul, who proved straw polls mean nothing, did an Ask Me Anything.
- The PED scandal in baseball is hypocritical on many levels.
- Hollywood is also heavily into PEDs.
- A gay player in the locker room is probably a non-issue in the NBA.
- Not to be insulting, but do Southerners still eat dirt?
- Amnesiac Henry Molaison was neuroscience’s most important patient.
- Jeff Bezos likely knows what he’ll be doing with the Washington Post.
- The AI community probably should focus less on eerie verisimilitude.
- Silicon Valley usually turns out Instagrams, not Hyperloops.
- Crowd-scanning technology hasn’t been perfected yet, but it will be.
- Despite what Richard Dawkins says, facts can be racist.
- Fifty years ago, the U.S. blasted a ring of copper around the Earth.
- Unsurprisingly, Silicon Valley is ageist.
- A brief note from 1922 about insect head transplants.
- A brief note from 1921 about a nose job.
- This week’s Afflictor keyphrase searches.