This week, Justice Scalia, trying to recover from his antiquated racist statements, said he appreciates the contributions of all African-Americans, including that tall butler in the White House.
- The media may not be responsible for Donald Trump, but it didn’t help.
- Fox News can trace its origins to a 1929 NYC movie theater.
- Otherwise intelligent people fall for cons and cults. Why?
- Astronaut Edgar Mitchell embraced Me Decade pseudoscience.
- Ted Koppel thinks you should prep for a power-grid cyberattack.
- Steven Levy writes of a Googler awakened to the potential of neural networks.
- Tyson Fury made people care about boxing again, in the worst way possible.
- Architecture endlessly rebuilt by molecular engineering may be the future.
- The Forgacs family wants to create a “meat-free immortality.”
- Adidas is opening its first fully automated plant.
- MIT’s David Autor may be too hopeful about jobs in the Digital Age.
- The Bank of England Chief Economist talks about technological unemployment.
- Neurobiologist Ji Xiaohua believes technological unemployment won’t massive.
- Pacific-Standard wonders about employment in the year 2035.
- DARPA makes predictions about technological possibilities by 2045.
- Next-level mart-home tech wants to quantify your body.
- Autocrat Michael Bloomberg is again running his namesake company.
- A brief note from 1951 about robot screenwriters.
- A brief note from 1901 about the Massachusetts Frog Company.
- A brief note from 1901 about a man who swallowed a bullfrog.
- This week’s Afflictor keyphrase searches.