Before descending on Oregon, the Bundy militia defended our borders from a bearded foreign invader.
I brought toys for everyone.
I’ll get him!
- Technological unemployment has been paid scant attention by 2016 hopefuls.
- America’s vulgar tweetbag Donald Trump is what the GOP deserves.
- The populist energy of Occupy has been reawakened by Bernie Sanders.
- Like lots of Americans, Charles Koch feels he’s supported some dumb policies.
- Jon Krakauer believes the Oregon occupation is powered by spiritual madness.
- In postwar America, a cult leader rose to prominence in Los Angeles.
- Yuval Harari thinks the future belongs to techno-religions.
- Stephen Cave thinks about that tricky thing, predicting the future.
- Alphabet’s secretive subdivision Calico wants to extend lifespans.
- Perhaps we’re on the brink of bioengineering breakthroughs.
- IBM’s Watson is either a great victor or a stunning disappointment.
- In the Digital Age, games are often more meaningful than work.
- Sweden is all but done with non-digital money.
- The emergence of ETs would complicate, but not doom, religion.
- Paul La Farge doesn’t believe e-book have endangered the art of reading.
- Françoise Mouly discusses literacy in the Digital Age.
- In 1987, Robert Heilbroner predicted we were headed for wealth inequality.
- A look at the AI threat and the professional worriers who analyze it.
- The world would be a “smart object” if we achieve “data singularity.”
- Technology alone is rarely the answer to societal problems.
- An architect offers an elegant solution for terraforming Mars.
- Tambora’s eruption can teach us about shocking weather extremes.
- VR will allow cagefighting with Genghis Khan and sex with promiscuous ghosts.
- Corporate and government intrusion into personal data is likely permanent.
- High-tech public bathrooms are being built in China, for some reason.
- For some reason, we don’t consider water to be scarce or valuable.
- American labs are trying to grow human organs in pigs and sheep.
- Evidence mounts that there’s a lot going on inside of non-human creatures.
- Old Print Article: A daredevil laps from the Statue of Liberty (1912).
- A brief note from 1901 about an amateur doctor.
- A brief note From 1902 about webbed toes.
- A brief note from 1893 about heavyweights.
- This week’s Afflictor keyphrase searches.