This week, America’s next President, Donald Trump, said wheelchair-bound pundit Charles Krauthammer is a “loser” who “just sits there.” He also took aim at that socialist jerk who’s always hanging around.
- Old Print Articles: A call for public baths to be built in NYC (1897) + Remembering when Jefferson Davis utilized camels in the U.S. military (1920).
- Featured Videos: Geraldo Rivera’s Good Night America welcomes Kurt Vonnegut and Evel Knievel (1974), Bill Walton (1975), journalist/fraud Clifford Irving (1974) and private detective Jay J. Armes (1975).
- Recently Posted on NYC’s Craigslist: Let’s put my foul body odor to good use + Have you ever wanted to own a felon’s toaster?
- Manifest Destiny might get launched into space in the decades ahead.
- Marshall McLuhan was right, for the most part.
- Behavioral economist Richard Thaler suggests we build “decision engines.”
- A riposte to Elon Musk’s misgivings about genetic engineering.
- Neil deGrasse Tyson doesn’t fear the advent of superintelligence.
- Convoys of autonomous trucks are technologically possible right now.
- Humanoid robots must receive more private money to be realized.
- Roboticist Hod Lipson fears the discipline may cause social unrest.
- An entire team of Australian dockworkers has been replaced by robots.
- Johann-Dietrich Wörner of the European Space Agency wants moon colonies.
- Jenna Wortham explains what Uber has meant to African-Americans.
- The Confederate flag is a symbol of oppression. So is the U.S. flag, really.
- In 2014, the Chronicle looked at the Astros now-breached database.
- Farhad Manjoo of the NYT wonders about the future of transportation.
- At Grantland, great pieces about abandoned theme parks and Microserfs.
- Google hires Dan Doctoroff, the Balbo to Bloomberg’s Mussolini.
- In 1973, Arthur Schelsinger asked if we should reimagine the Presidency.
- America isn’t completely an asshole nation. Not completely.
- Journalist Abdel Bari Atwan believes horrible ISIS is now a country.
- German children indoctrinated by Nazis remain anti-Semitic.
- IOC President Thomas Bach discusses the body’s political responsibility.
- J.J. Abrams recalls Dick Smith, special make-up effects artist.
- Biological materials can be used in our architecture.
- A brief note from 1902 about a blown nose.
- A brief note from 1929 about eye tattoos.
- A brief note of 1907 about a cactus diet.
- This week’s Afflictor keyphrase searches.