This week, Vladimir Putin got that pain in his right arm checked out.
It’s like the recoil of a gun wrenched your shoulder. Did you recently fire a weapon?
- Old Print Articles: Scientists attempt to contact Martians (1924) + Electronic brain locates lost planets (1955).
- Featured Videos: Brian Eno and David Graeber discuss why we virtualize things + Marcel Marceau speaks–with his voice–to James Day (1974) + Allen Ginsberg performs a poetry reading at the Royal Albert Hall (1965).
- Recently Posted on NYC’s Craigslist: I can afford neither prostitutes nor condoms + I will pay a very small fee if you will save me from murderers + Last night, my roommate knocked on my door.
- Emily Nussbaum analyzes Joan Rivers’ brand of feminism.
- Peter W. Singer argues the future of war will be robotic.
- John Lanchester considers how quickly AI may remake society.
- Google introduces Deep Learning to AI playing Atari 2600.
- After the Citizenfour Oscar win, Edward Snowden did an AMA.
- Paul Sonne, the Moscow correspondent for the WSJ, did an AMA.
- Keith Gessen argues that Russia would be no different sans Putin.
- Tim Wu wonders about uploadable immortality.
- A few nations will have great technological “labor savings.”
- Thirty percent of all jobs may vanish within a decade?
- Some think Big Auto will disappear once robocars emerge.
- Some think driverless cars will all but eliminate private ownership.
- Micro-living is more necessary than ever.
- Will super-intelligences be troubled by philosophical conundrums?
- Technology can both counter and abet tyrants.
- Kim Jong-un kidnapped the stars of the North Korean film industry.
- The next cities may emerge from a 3D printer.
- A fully operational Hyperloop is slated to be built next year in California.
- Quay Valley, the planned utopic insta-city, will have a Hyperloop.
- Naomi Klein believes capitalism and environmentalism are incompatible.
- Andrew McAfee points out that the current economy makes no sense.
- Dr. Eugenie Clark, “Shark Lady,” was not a fan of Jaws.
- Dr. Sergio Canavero wants to do a head transplant soon. Won’t happen.
- A look back at the American interpretation of the Paris Commune.
- Under Armour and others want to “electrify” clothes.
- The New York Police Department still uses typewriters.
- Theoretically, science can make us all savants.
- A brief note from 1904 about sun worship.
- A brief note from 1943 about blood transfusions.
- This week’s Afflictor keyphrase searches.