This week it became clear that America has a secret weapon it can send to Iraq to destroy ISIS.
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- Old Print Articles: Gabriel Poulain flies his bicycle plane (1921) + The town of Deadwood described in detail (1877) + German prophet lands in Berlin jail (1921).
- Featured Videos: Masters and Johnson did a lot of research, still couldn’t predict the future + Marvin Minsky and Ray Kurzweil discuss the Singularity + Oprah Winfrey and Norman Mailer talk about love (1984) + Robin Williams interviewed by Dick Cavett (1979) and David Frost (1991).
- Recently Posted on NYC’s Craigslist: I’m the laziest identity thief ever, so could you just mail me your details? + Indian tourist really enjoying her stay in New York + Well, summer really is over.
- The sharing economy explored at the granular level.
- Consumers, Democrats as well as Republicans, want the sharing economy.
- The Digital Age may or may not create jobs to replace eliminated ones.
- On-demand Internet delivery services are attempting a comeback.
- A particular strain of Singulatarians wants Fascism by algorithm.
- A globalized world has impacted the value of the first Superman comic.
- Jarhead 2 has arrived nine years after the original film. Why?
- American police were militarized by the wars on drugs, terror and Iraq.
- CIA lawyer explains why he allowed renditions and waterboarding.
- Pandemics usually begin in crowded, unsanitary spaces.
- Capitalism in China has not led to democracy.
- If driverless cars reduce accidents, where will organ donations come from?
- 3D printed organs will be a reality, but when?
- Father Yod began one of L.A.’s first health-food restaurants–and a cult.
- David Sullivan was a foremost cult infiltrator.
- A former Marine built a time-travel machine in the California desert.
- John du Pont, focus of Foxcatcher, drowned others in his madness.
- Air Conditioning had a huge impact on the developed world.
- Some think we’re worrying needlessly about superintelligence.
- Douglas Coupland addresses individuality in the Internet Age.
- “Adjustable Ethics Settings” would be problematic for driverless cars.
- Google claims to have no specific business plan for driverless cars.
- Google wants to test-drive its robocars via computer simulation.
- In his AMA, Nolan Bushnell discusses the future of business and tech.
- In his AMA, MIT physics professor Max Tegmark discusses advanced AI.
- David Graeber explains that knights were not gallant.
- You may not want to be in the system, but you are. We all are.
- Fat might not be the biggest threat in your diet.
- MLB could experience with a pitch clock.
- We don’t know even 1% of the dinosaurs that existed.
- A brief note from 1895 about dog food.
- A brief note from 1867 about flour barrels.
- A brief note from 1904 about a lion tamer.
- This week’s Afflictor keyphrase searches.