This week, the nation was outraged by the least-immoral aspect of the NFL.
- Old Print Articles: The sport of indoor baseball (1912/39) + A brief history of technophobia (1929).
- Featured Videos: Al Goldstein interviews Gilbert Gottfried (1990s) + Francis Ford Coppola explains the inspiration for The Conversation (1974) + Boston Dynamics’ Atlas robot is now liberated of its safety cord.
- Recently Posted on NYC’s Craigslist: I’ll give you myrrh for a happy ending + Amateurs will probably be considered + No adult wet nursing!
- Detainee Mohamedou Ould Slahi writes of Guantanamo horrors.
- From Je Suis Charlie to technological challenges, Dean Baquet weighs in.
- Thomas Piketty talks about the source of perpetual productivity growth.
- Andrew McAfee thinks AI might be arriving sooner than later.
- Embedded in the mechanisms of progress are surprising dangers.
- Many Americans think terrorism is our biggest threat. It is not.
- Astrophysicist Adam Frank analyzes the precariousness of Earth life.
- Bill Gates comments on the existential threat of superintelligent AI.
- Edge.org contributors think about thinking machines.
- Despite what he said, Charlie Smith did not make it to 137.
- Toshiba’s Chihira Aico wants to take your job.
- Tom Carson goes deep into the inscrutable mind of magus Ricky Jay.
- Horseflesh has often been an acceptable meal in the U.S.
- Marilynne Robinson takes on the work of Edgar Allan Poe.
- Emily Prager explains how differently Lolita was viewed in the 1960s.
- In Washington, marriage policy is a bipartisan folly.
- Children are cuter but not inherently more valuable.
- The U.S. education system encourages spiraling wealth inequality.
- Wealth inequality is not going away–and neither is the focus on it.
- Steven Levy and Google AI guru Demis Hassabis discuss Deep Learning.
- Casinos might be, perhaps, further impoverishing Native Americans.
- Autonomous-car parking is arriving in many varieties.
- Fred Wilpon was somehow named chairman of MLB’s Finance Committee.
- A dangerous period looms before eventual tech-driven abundance.
- Oymyakon is the coldest town on Earth.
- A brief note from 1942 about a house call.
- A brief note from 1919 about butterflies.
- A brief note from 1858 about a family dinner.
- This week’s Afflictor keyphrase searches.