Afflictor: Encouraging babies to relax in the hot tub after a long day's work at the tattoo parlor, since 2009. (Image by Tattoo Lover.)
- Classic Film: Punishment Park (1971).
- Old Print Articles: Funeral conducted via phonograph (1895) + Woman swallows lizard, dies (1900) + Taxidermists encountering difficulties (1887).
- Classic Photographs: Jack Dempsey engages in a double-fisted photo-op with Harry Houdini.
- Featured Videos: Last living witness of the Lincoln Assassination (1956) + Milton Friedman debates teenager; kid wins (1977) + Walter Cronkite’s first night as news anchor (1963) + Richard Feynman on the possibility of UFOs (1964) + Paul Williams performs in his Planet of the Apes costume (1973) + Pearl Bailey supports Gerald Ford (1976) + Future Minnesota Governor Jesse Ventura selling beer (1984) + Leon Theremin plays his namesake instrument + Transmitting data via lightbulbs + Steve Jobs unveils the Mac (1984) + Nursing care robot can lift humans + Promotional Motorola cell phone video (1980s) + Bob Costas interviews Camille Paglia (1992) + William F. Buckley interviews Hugh Hefner (1966).
- Recently Posted On NYC’s Craigslist: Woman wants boyfriend, needs therapist + Searching for a shrinking potion + Mother-in-law not working out + Judgemental guy doesn’t like thongs + Judgemental guy doesn’t like Uggs.
- Google is preparing you for your brain implant.
- Ray Bradbury voices frustration about the space program in 1996.
- Brewster Kahle wants to collect every book ever published.
- Great Paris Review piece about a Kentucky ventriloquist convention.
- George Packer deflates the romantic reconsideration of large-scale slums.
- The apocalypse is always coming to Tbilisi, Georgia.
- Has D.B. Cooper finally been identified?
- Swedish crime writer Henning Mankell contemplates the nature of evil.
- Russell Davies predicts the true nature of the Internet of Things.
- In the Age of Kindle, should we take our books with us when we move?
- The Active Denial System exerts crowd control.
- Computer tablets for toddlers.
- Aquatic microbot spying device can walk on water.
- Afflictor Nation: Great Britain rules in July.
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