Afflictor: Thinking the reception area at Planned Parenthood will change once the Teapublicans take over. (Image by François R. Cambuzat.)
- Recent Film: Meek’s Cutoff.
- Old Print Articles: Crazy coroner mummifies children and monkeys (1990) + Electricians demonstrate poor judgement (1888).
- Featured Videos: John Lennon on the Today Show (1974) + Fun and games on airlines (1970s) + Converting plastic back into oil + Astronaut Gus Grissom takes flight (1961) + Hand-sized robot to attempt triathalon + Good time-warp doc about Feminism (1974) + Disembodied rat brain cells control a robot + NBC reports on the future of TV (1980).
- Recently Posted on NYC’s Craigslist: Costco, low prices and so much more + I like to drink heavily before peering into the sky + Your kids don’t yet look enough like convicts.
- Summing up the Teapublican Party in three words.
- Is Jon Stewart too angry to be funny?
- What the morning news looked like right before the 9/11 attacks started.
- Silicon Valley’s bubble has not been burst by the recession.
- Steven Johnson recalls the game-changing effects of the Macintosh.
- Apple unveils its plans for futuristic Cupertino offices.
- Bioengineering self-destroying species can’t turn out badly, can it?
- Russian firm building entire cities in Kenya and the Congo.
- David Plotz examines the Wild West side of the American fertility industry.
- A brief note about zero-gravity pens.
- Olympic champion Rulon Gardner has nearly died many, many times.
- Simon Winchester rides the new rocket trains of China.
- Computer-written articles proliferate online thanks to new software.
- Taking refuge from Electromagnetic Waves in a Radio Free Zone.
- Looking back on a mysterious cluster of deaths in 1980s America.
- Baseball rebel Bill “Spaceman” Lee is profiled in 1978.
- 3D food printers from Cornell Creative Machines Lab use edible ink.
- Examining the long-term health-care costs of U.S. war vets.
- Project Gutenberg e-books pioneer Michael Hart passes away.
- What Kleenex tissues were originally meant for (not nose-blowing).
- Ben Katchor and Mark Mulcahy present a free musical in October.
- This week’s Afflictor keyphrase searches.