This week, Ebola was driven out of New York City…
…when this guy accidentally urinated on it…
…and this chick puked all over it.
- Old Print Articles: Sir Arthur Conan Doyles explains what the afterlife is like (1922) + Clarence Darrow thinks no criminal is culpable (1931) + Nikola Tesla files his final patent (1928).
- Recently Posted on NYC’s Craigslist: All of a sudden, Ebola doesn’t sound so bad + I prefer dark meat + I won’t give you nightmares, but they are available for a price.
- Frank Rich argues it’s difficult to know the present, let alone the future.
- Paul Krugman believes Amazon is a robber baron of books.
- At last, a hole in the Amazon.com fortress.
- Mars colonization is about species survival–and financial opportunity.
- Some believe robocars are on the horizon. Others disagree.
- Perhaps a large stock of cheap labor will delay autonomous vehicles.
- Singapore is testing autonomous public transport with golf carts.
- Walter Isaacson profiles Wikipedia’s hive mind.
- Tim Berners-Lee is surprised and chagrined by Internet hate speech.
- Charles Babbage and Ada Lovelace were a century ahead of the field.
- Earnshaw Cook espoused Moneyball ideas before Billy Beane was born.
- E.O. Wilson’s new book stresses the immorality of ants.
- President Obama’s science moonshot is focused on the human brain.
- Uber offered some customers a chance to have flu shots “delivered.”
- In 1959, Isaac Asimov analyzed creativity.
- A few people with high IQs try to explain the nature of genius.
- A journalist just returned from Liberia did an AMA about Ebola.
- Our era is challenging, but perhaps not as bad as we think.
- Thomas Piketty has good and bad news about income inequality.
- Nelson Bunker Hunt, wingnut Texas oilman, passes away.
- David Remnick recalls his old WaPo boss Ben Bradlee.
- Florida won’t likely split into two states, but it’s fun to dream.
- New Chicago streetlights will collect ambient data.
- Marijuana cultivation is California’s biggest drought-related crime.
- A look at the domed habitat for Hawaii’s next Mars simulation.
- In the future, baths will be different.
- A brief note from 1912 about fresh eyes.
- A brief note from 1913 about a woodchopper.
- A brief note from 1913 about a peculiar operation.
- A brief note from 1901 about a tobacco habit.
- This week’s Afflictor keyphrase searches.