Afflictor: Thinking Blue Man Group has hit the skids, since 2009. (Image by blchin.)
- Classic Film: Contempt. (1963)
- Old Print Articles: Man has spoon surgically removed from stomach (1887) + Clairvoyant predicts prizefighter killed (1860) + Street preachers and mayhem (1854).
- Classic Photograph: American Freedom train tours Georgia. (1976)
- Featured Videos: David Frost interviews Joan Crawford (1970) and Muhammad Ali (1974) and the Shah of Iran (1980) + Marshall McLuhan visits the Today Show (1979) + News report about a computer virus (1988) + Mike Wallace interviews Bette Davis (1980) + Tesco creates virtual subway store + Andy Warhol for President + Children discuss LSD use + Joe Pyne interviews Helen Gurley Brown (1960s) + Salvador Dali shills for Alka-Seltzer + Leonard Nimoy interviewed in Oregon (1967) + Swarm robots pull a child.
- Recently Posted on NYC’s Craigslist: Why do you think they’re building secret vaults in the Arctic? + Can store clerks kill robbers? + Gypsies may have been selling used cars + Man vs. Mouse + No more performance art shit for me.
- Neal Gabler believes we’re living in the Post-Idea Era.
- Wendy Wasserstein was inscrutable, even to her closest friends.
- Harold Bloom takes down the Tea Party.
- Philip K. Dick profiled in 1975 in Rolling Stone.
- The Internet isn’t necessarily changing our brains for the worse.
- Tech visionary Jaron Lanier built a Geodesic Dome when he was 11.
- Walter Kirn assails multitasking.
- Web 1.0 wunderkind/wackjob Josh Harris predicts the future.
- William Faulkner covers hockey for SI in 1955.
- George Devol, inventor of robotic arm, passes away.
- Rob Walker on consumer demand for planned obsolescence.
- Swarm robots to inexpensively explore space.
- Mikhail Gorbachev assesses modern Russia.
- Can Bolivia corner the lithium market?
- This week’s Afflictor Keyphrase Searches.