This week, the Supreme Court took another step toward realizing its vision of America.

• Old Print Articles: Flying cars coming soon to your garage (1943) + Robot addresses Broadway audience (1929) + Photo finishes become reality at racetracks (1935).

• Featured Videos: A demo of a theremin on What’s  My Line? (1962) + Vladimir Nabokov was a lepidopterist but not a pervert + Henry Miller interviewed on French TV.

• Recently Posted On NYC’s Craigslist: That plate you’re eating off of is diaper-clean + Did you also do nothing while someone was perhaps being murdered?

• 10 Recent Huffington Post headlines.

• My Fellow Americans: Happy 4th of July!

• In modern politics, winning the media war isn’t necessarily winning.

• The U.S. Christian separatist movement is the latest right-wing lunacy.

• Douglas Coupland updates his thoughts on McJobs.

• Income disparity and medical innovations may lead to radical lifespan divisions.

• Joseph Stiglitz explains how we went from World War II to 99 and 1.

• There was one hippie commune that did fairly well.

• In the 1970s, soccer also enjoyed a boom period in America.

• How the Dutch became an unlikely soccer powerhouse.

• Information wants to be free–as in unfettered.

• Democracy is not an ally of cheap gas.

• Ford wants to be a mobility company rather than a car company. 

• Google and automakers might, perhaps, forge a valuable alliance.

• Google employee Diane von Furstenberg recalls the wrap dress.

• Facebook executed psychological experiments on unwitting users

• Sheryl Sandberg thinks Facebook’s failing was one of messaging, not ethics.

• Bud Selig changed the role of baseball commissioner, mostly for the worse.

• Hollywood director Paul Mazursky chronicled America at the crossroads.

• Monsanto is despised, even if high-tech farming is necessary.

• Physicists think we’ve past peak-philosophy.

• Converging factors are like to effect a sea change in higher education.

• The Associated Press is going to publish auto-written pieces.

• Print newspapers ared and dying in the U.S., except for ethnic ones.

• In the 1950s, AT&T introduced its first answering machine.

• Jacqueline Kennedy wanted her style to be adored, not popularized.

• A cryonics ambulance driver tells all.

• A new volume of historical counterfactuals reimagines Waterloo.

• A brief note from 1910 about sane monkeys.

• A brief note from 1910 about economic stimulus.

• A brief note from 1910 about a final message.

• A brief note from 1910 about a true believer.

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This week, the whole world was shocked by utter brutality…

…and rallied together to punish the aggressor.

No, not him.

This guy.

• Old Print Articles: Nikola Tesla dies alone in Manhattan (1943) + Leon Theremin wows New York City audience with namesake invention (1928) + Aggrieved man lives in wife’s tomb for seven years (1905).

• Featured Videos: Rona Barrett frightens horror directors John Carpenter, George Romero and Jeannot Szwarc (1981) + Dudley Moore, Peter Cook, Jonathan Miller and Allen Bennett visit What’s My Line? (1962) + Carson McCullers interviewed on a ship (1956) + A look at the dark eroticism of Helmut Newton (1989).

• Recently Posted on NYC’s Craigslist: Everything about this is illegal + My ancestors were freaks + Paula has always seemed sort of cool to me, despite what they say about her.

• 10 recent Huffington Post headlines.

• Some seem to think brutal murderer Michael Alig is a fun celebrity.

• Extremist Senator Ted Cruz has been emboldened, not chastened.

• Samuel Beckett and Andre the Giant were friends. This changes everything.

• Journalist Scott Carney did an AMA about human-organ trafficking.

• Steven Rattner thinks robots will not wreck the job market. Perhaps.

• Robots probably aren’t as scary as the people who own them.

• Gawker has way more unique visitors than the New York Times.

• Nicholas Kristof seems a great guy, but is he a great journalist?

• Bill James favors a simple fix for exorbitant executive pay.

• The second machine age may mean greater wealth in fewer hands.

• Jack White was the last rock star of the Industrial Age.

• Ralph Nader doesn’t believe our culture is very participatory.

• The Great Melt can be slowed but not avoided.

• “Meth Face” might really exist or it might be clever propaganda.

• Melinda Gates discusses having wealth and spreading wealth.

• Larry Page thinks privacy concerns may have a chilling effect on creativity.

• Public and private space exploration both have their benefits.

• Philosopher John Searle tries not to think about animal rights.

• In 1969, Ross Perot envisioned a McLuhan-ish electronic town hall.

• In 1988, Joyce Carol Oates knew dysfunction was becoming entertainment.

• In 1974, Pat Nixon remained steady as Watergate neared its boiling point.

• Kits will be sold that will give driverless capacity to pre-autonomous vehicles.

• Amazon may end up on the receiving end of an antitrust investigation.

• 3D printers are amazing, but people will use them to make guns.

• Small children can often regenerate severed fingertips. 

• A NASA rocket was destroyed because of a simple typo.

• A network of hover cars probably won’t be the future of commuting.

• Technologists are trying (again) to turn the UK into a hub for robotics.

• Robots might be the jockeys of the future.

• For the time being, smarter homes just complicate simple things.

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• A brief note from 1910 about a long walk.

• A brief note from 1910 about sleepy people.

• A brief note from 1911 about new eyelids.

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This week, Pope Francis excommunicated all gang members…

…except for one.

He’s too dreamy.

• Old Print Articles: Boxing promoter Tex Rickard’s wake conducted at Madison Square Garden (1929) + WWI thins out the herd of circus freaks (1921).

• Featured Videos: Stanley Siegel conducts an infamous interview with a soused Truman Capote (1978) + Muhammad Ali and Wilt Chamberlain agree to fight, thankfully never do (1961) + Michael Crichton visited the Today Show to discuss his new novel, Jurassic Park (1990) + The UNIVAC computer predicted the next American President (1952).

• Recently Posted on NYC’s Craigslist: Why are Grandma’s gums so sore? + New Jersey–traffic jams and tarantulas + You can have one kidney for that iPad.

• 10 recent Huffington Post headlines.

• Photographer Julius Wasser has cataloged L.A. life For 50 years.

• Amazon’s humming warehouses are hubs of artificial intelligence.

• Private tech firms are trying to build their own nouveau Bell Labs.

• Jill Lepore challenges popular notions about market disruptions.

• Elon Musk wants to establish a Martian city by 2026.

• Julian Assange, that mixed blessing, did an AMA at Reddit.

• Slavoj Žižek defends Assange in is customary over-the-top way.

• Casey Kasem’s countdown show stubbornly resisted the digital revolution.

• Doctors and lawyers, not just laborers, may be replaced by robots.

• Brazil is so soccer crazy that Pele got away with horrible politics.

• The U.S. isn’t good at soccer because our best athletes play other sports.

• Ted Williams daughter Claudia speaks about the cryonics controversy.

• Synthetic biology, that great and scary thing, has many applications.

• A storied 1¢ stamp just sold for $9.5 million. Why so much?

• Novelist Daniel Keyes was ahead of the curve on cognitive enhancement.

• Cockfighting is still legal in Puerto Rico.

• Some people think world wars have a bright side.

• Smart tech is changing the nature of books, which might be a good thing.

• Disruption hasn’t interrupted industries that may be killing us.

• Non-traditional surgery would be needed for Mars travelers.

• The Spring of Thomas Piketty stretches into Summer.

• Economists see the future of our technological world in sharp contrast.

• Peter Singer thinks it unethical to buy overpriced art.

• In 1980, atheist activist Madalyn Murray O’Hair’s son found God.

• In 1970, Erich Segal was a wildly popular and not-so-great writer.

• In 1971, Buckminster Fuller was a leading technological positivist.

• In the 1950s, Japan had a rough entry into the American auto market.

• Suburban American malls are Digital Age ghost towns.

• One of the Frenchest paragraphs ever.

• A brief note from 1926 about a wild woman.

• A brief note from 1901 about a hard worker.

• A brief note from 1911 about ancient wheat.

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This week marked the official start of the season of guys getting kicked in the nuts.

• Old Print Articles: The immediate aftermath of Isadora Duncan’s shocking death (1927) + Mussolini’s Air Minister creates a technocrat’s dream office (1933) + Felix Berol, “Man with 300,000 Facts in His Head” dies (1914).

• Featured Videos: Henry Miller’s final interview (1980) + Boeing had high hopes for the SST (1967) + Ski racers, including Spider Sabich, receive a dreamy documentary (1969) + Interview with the parents of the first test tube baby (1979) + Make a withdrawal at the world’s first celebrity sperm bank.

• Recently Posted on NYC’s Craigslist: The kid in the deli handles my wife’s prenatal care + Ours will be a slow recovery + There’s an extra five if you have a squirrel in your pants.

• 10 recent Huffington Post headlines.

• The American anti-government movement turns deadly.

• 1 thing about Eric Cantor’s defeat.

• The next vehicle will not be merely a driverless car.

• LSD and interspecies sex marked John Lilly’s 1960s dolphin experiments.

• Francis Ford Coppola will think movies will go “live.”

• Future space travel may be left mostly to private entrepreneurs.

• Edward Makuka Nkoloso believed Zambia was in the Space Race.

• Howard Hughes died for many reasons but likely not aspirin abuse.

• MIT’s Rodney Brooks believes robots won’t cause unemployment.

• Steven Pinker looks at writing from cultural and neurological angles.

• Microsoft and Amazon may have saved Seattle from steep decline.

• Elon Musk rescinds all of Tesla’s EV patents.

• Michael Wolff profiles the Guardian’s editor, Alan Rusbridger.

• We may still be able to halt the so-called Sixth Extinction.

• A look inside Google’s new robotics company Boston Dynamics.

• Robots will be safer drivers than humans, but by how much?

• Uber might, perhaps, decrease private-car ownership.

• Globalization has had a mixed effect on the World Cup.

• Some PEDs should perhaps be permitted in sports.

• The Internet of Things will go far beyond smart toothbrushes.

• Jack London built a futuristic piggery in California.

• In 1934, automobile drivers could plug in an electric scarf.

• A brief note from 1910 about a ranch-bred woman.

• A brief note from 1929 about huge robotic fireflies.

• A brief note from 1911 about a toothache.

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This week, it became clear that President Obama had even less privacy in the gym than we previously knew.

• Old Print Articles: Moon can be used as an airport (1940) + Scottish children riot in cemetery (1954) + Human chess player challenges computer (1951).

• Featured Videos: Before he completely sank, Ralph Nader made waves (1972) + Ingmar Bergman talks to Dick Cavett (1971) + Peter Benchley hosted a preview featurette for the release of Jaws (1975) + The Case Institute of Technology basketball team employed a computerized “coach” (1959) + Ricky Jay dazzles Merv Griffin (1983).

• Recently Posted on NYC’s Craigslist: At last, a spokesperson for our generation + If we try to shake hands,we’ll probably decapitate each other + I want to give you the finger.

• 10 recent Huffington Post headlines.

• Thomas Frank and David Graeber discuss technology and capitalism.

• In 1970, Life covered the computerized Ali-Marciano “fight.” 

• Malcolm Gladwell hosts a wide-ranging Ask Me Anything.

• Patton Oswalt steps away (for awhile) from the new connectedness.

• In more than one nation, Donald Trump is a gigantic fartbag.

• What American streets were like before they were overrun with cars.

• In 1976, Joan Didion and John Gregory Dunne struggled with marriage.

• In 1977, Oriana Fallaci was asked a question no male journalist was asked.

• #YesAllWomen is, perhaps, just the beginning of something big.

• France’s far-right extremist leader Marine Le Pen lays out her goals.

• Robocar hacking could become the new vandalism (and terrorism).

• Ray Kurzweil thinks we’re on the road to immortality.

• The Singularity has its doubters.

• Marc Andreessen sees the Google Glass as half-full.

• Apple wants to know how you’re breathing and sleeping.

• Texas oilman H.L. Hunt’s death wasn’t the end of his crazy life.

• Before music streamed, Van Dyke Parks made money writing songs.

• Handwriting, which is declining, is linked to memory and learning.

• The automated society might lead to rampant unemployment.

• Robots don’t want to be limited to factory jobs.

• Markets are driven not just by logic but by politics as well.

• Head injuries don’t only occur in American football.

• Forgetting your native tongue is rare but possible.

• Amnesiac Kent Cochrane lost the future as well as the past.

• There will be disruptive banks, but, you know, be careful.

• Autonomous vehicles might grow popular faster than hybrids.

• Microsoft’s digital assistant engages in human-ish conversation.

• Atari is trying to revive its brand yet again.

• Wi-Fi is now available on the moon.

• Panel cartooning has dwindled as magazines have declined.

• A brief note from 1923 about the free market.

• A brief note from 1909 about fatherhood.

• A brief note from 1910 about a blind horse.

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