Afflictor: Eagerly anticipating that summer blockbuster, "Mr. Ed: 3-D," since 2009. (Image by Rachel C.)
- Old Print Articles: Americans having duels (1844-90) + Impoverished Minnesota lawyer sells his mustache (1893) + Using electrical currents and cocaine to cheat at horse racing (1900).
- Classic Photography: Roosevelt tries to recapture the White House (1912) + Flapper poses in Moscow, Idaho (1922).
- Featured Videos: Groucho Marx on Firing Line (1967) + Frank Sinatra at the Republican Convention (1980) + Hunter S. Thompson on a campus tour during the Reagan years + U.S. Military testing nukes in Nevada (1951) + MTV News report about the Internet (1995) + Young Rupert Murdoch conducting business (1968) + Marlon Brando at a NYC press conference (1965) + Robot seagull demo in Scotland + Motorcycle gangs run wild in Japan (1976) + Brain-cap technology comes of age + Typical day of air traffic in America.
- Recently Posted on NYC’s Craigslist: Guy very angry at Pathmark deli section + Selling life masks of dead celebrities + Selling genuine human skeleton, right hand missing + Cherish always the moment W. got shoes thrown at him + Need a cheap couch, free of urine, vomit and feces.
- Comments about open societies after mass terrorism by David Foster Wallace and the Norwegian Prime Minister,
- Buckminster Fuller wanted to place a dome over a large chunk of Manhattan.
- Philip K. Dick holding forth on androids and humans in 1972.
- U.S. Army working on perfecting telepathy via “thought helmets.”
- Kurt Vonnegut reviews Tom Wolfe in 1965.
- Billy Hunter freed Patty Hearst from prison.
- An argument that Borders going out of business is good for the book business.
- Jewish journalist John Sack was invited to a Holocaust deniers convention in 2001.
- James Surowiecki explains why being under the gun is bad for negotiators.
- Aircraft made by a 3-D printer takes flight.
- Clive Thompson predicts electric bicycles will soon become huge.
- Solar power and the growth of cities in the near future.
- Are crowds visiting a giraffe proof that Ciudad Juarez has grown safer?
- Two brothers going to develop the same video game their whole lives.
- How urban environments cause evolutionary changes.
- Barbara Ehrenreich didn’t see beneath John Edwards’ slick surface.
- Ivan Illich was wary of technology.
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