This week, the combination of sweltering heat and piles of trash caused giant flying cockroaches to be spotted in NYC.
- Apollo astronaut Al Worden speaks well of Trump and Wernher von Braun.
- In this odd election year, Jim Rutenberg questions usual journalistic standards.
- Paywalls have not proved a panacea for ailing newspaper companies.
- Our technological future is arriving soon. How much can we shape it?
- Sarah Ellison takes the temperature at Fox News after the Ailes ouster.
- Tyler Cowen explores the “contagion of mood” upsetting global politics.
- Universal Basic Income could be used to devastate the poor.
- Steve Hsu writes of the impact genetic engineering will have on sports.
- DNA may de-extinct woolly mammoths and preserve old films.
- The Economist thinks about the pros and cons of the end of aging.
- With Electric Vehicles, Elon Musk could win and lose simultaneously.
- The Hyperloop One team conducted an AMA about the new transportation.
- Commentary on H.G. Wells’ futurism by John Higgs and Jaron Lanier.
- An aspect of Space Race 2.0 is a competition to establish a moon habitat.
- Old Print Article: “Sun scientists” predicted the end of scarcity. (1955)
- A brief note from 1898 about a one-armed man walking ’round the world.
- A brief note from 1904 about alligator hunters in Venezuela.
- This week’s Afflictor keyphrase searches: Indira Gandhi, Erkki Kurenniemi, etc.