This week, Gold medal swimmer Ryan Lochte saw his public image take a slight turn for the worse.
- Michael Wolff found two Americans more unlikable than him-–Trump and Clinton.
- Trump, Georges Steinbrenner and George Wallace, reboots his campaign.
- Carey Purcell recalls the misfortune of having worked at Trump magazine.
- Even if we avoid Trump, manufacturing jobs won’t thrive again in America.
- The Hollywood Reporter has an offensive take on the Nate Parker case.
- As Jeffrey Toobin releases American Heiress, a few pieces about Patty Hearst.
- The FT profiles Larry Harvey, founder of Burning Man, that mixed blessing.
- In Vice, Eve Herold presents the opening of her book Beyond Human.
- Gerd Leonhard worries that “technology will soon impact our own biology.”
- Robin Chase says driverless necessitates a radical reworking of capitalism.
- A pair of updates on progress in the race to driverless vehicles.
- Seattle millennials fear the future. Imagine how Syria millennials feel.
- Anatole Konstantin, who escaped Stalin’s Soviet Union, conducted an AMA.
- A.O. Scott analyzes Werner Herzog’s exploration of the Digital Revolution.
- Some feared blogs would kill off newspapers. In retrospect, that was hopeful.
- Old Print Article: Bruno Hauptmann’s executioner grows nervous. (1936)
- Old Print Article: William Eddy’s scientific kite flying. (1900)
- A brief note from 1903 about an astronomer who had a metal nose.
- This week’s Afflictor keyphrase searches: King Tut, Aga Khan, AI, etc.