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- Classic Film: Night of the Living Dead (1968).
- Old Print Articles: Haggard holy man Henry Clay Dean passes away (1887) + Twenty-foot giants may have inhabited early America (1900) + Daft girl makes living repairing barber brushes (1886).
- Classic Photographs: Twelve-year-old barber shaves a head (1917) + Women (sorta) join the NYPD (1918).
- Featured Videos: Female engineers during the women’s movement (1975) + Taking notes in a college class with a typewriter + Ayn Rand talks to Mike Wallace (1959) + Digital art pioneer Lillian Schwartz is profiled (1976) + Gil Scott-Heron pointing fingers at whitey on the moon + Robot bellhops at futuristic NYC hotel + Introduction of the Eames lounge chair (1956) + Next generation e-book + Phones made from flexible electronic paper + Brief explanation of the neurological phenomenon Synesthesia + Footbridge in India that lives and grows + Brief glimpse of folk legend Karen Dalton (1970) + Robot scans your groceries + Merging of Martha Graham and Google + Robot solves Rubik’s Cube.
- Recently Posted on NYC’s Craigslist: Even selling a used mattress has to be about my ego + Rationalizing greatly while selling my kidney + Angry person is warning you to shut your piehole + If you find any neat dead animals, please put them in the freezer + Guy with sob story selling T-shirts + Incredibly sweet Mother’s Day message.
- Lawrence Wright looks at our foreign policy in Pakistan and India.
- Tom Junod investigates the collective genius of an ant colony.
- Truman Capote profiles Marlon Brando for the New Yorker in 1957.
- Joan Didion meditates on H2O in 1977.
- A California white supremacist is murdered by his ten-year-old son.
- Revisiting the bizarre theories of scientist Immanuel Velikovsky.
- Science predicts a breed of giant babies (1937).
- A global science project yields results in 1957-58.
- Apple employing odd methods to stop employee suicides in Taiwan factory.
- Spain is home to the largest wooden structure in the world.
- Jockey Steve Cauthen crossed the finish line in first place in the 1970s.
- Feminists worried that women were an endangered species in the 1970s.
- Pete Hamill recalls the decline of manufacturing in 1950s NYC.
- The odd and creepy origins of a Tennessee supermarathon.
- Computers try to pass muster at the Turing Test.
- Driverless cars in the land of bottomless buffets anf topless dancers.
- What would life be like if we couldn’t forget anything?
- Can our economy be saved by super-immigrants?
- A brief note from 1895 about how awful NYC smelled.
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