Afflictor: Thinking Herman Cain was hasty when choosing his running mate. (Image by Axelv.)
- Old Print Articles: Everyone who works at Bellevue Hospital is drunk (1901) + Bad grandma has bad descendants (1902).
- Featured Videos: Peter Sellers TV appearances (1970/73) + Petman robot is scary, amazing + Test flight of a hybrid zeppelin + Furby torments Siri + Carl Sagan meditates on the moon landing’s significance + Hans Rolsing explains world population using Ikea products + Charles Kuralt reports on the postal service (1981) + Charles Kuralt visits a Texas turkey trot (1972) + Charles Kuralt recalls murdered missionaries (1976) + Neil Postman anazlyzes the new technology (1995) + Criswell predicts the future (1965) + Woody Allen interviews Billy Graham (1970) + Woody Allen hosts the Tonight Show (1971) + Marshall McLuhan worries about information overload (1977) + Tom Snyder is awed by holography (1977).
- Recently posted on NYC’s Craigslist: I don’t like driving to illegal poker games + I can’t tolerate being alone with me, but perhaps you can + I miss NYC so much that I constantly get high.
- Microsoft predicts the advent of “data spill” by 2019.
- William Gibson explains how the future will change history.
- In 1966, Timothy Leary predicts how LSD users would change the world.
- Jack Nicholson recalls his first LSD experience.
- Steven Johnson reacts to the new Steve Jobs bio.
- Steve Jobs hated the Sports Illustrated tablet mock-up.
- E.B. White mourns the decline of the Model T in 1936,
- Filmmaker Ilya Khrzhanovskiy runs wild in a great article by Michael Idov.
- Samuel Arbesman tries to figure out how long America will last.
- Dropping cheap laptops out of helicopters in remote villages.
- Companies creating wireless charging for electric cars.
- Nabokov had a low opinion of Dostoyevsky.
- A 1995 Wired piece about the positive side of a lack of privacy.
- How merely walking through the door affects your memory.
- Robots want to take even more of your jobs,
- Can the brain be rewired so that spenders become savers?
- Architect Bjarke Ingels aims for large-scale urban creations.
- Tyler Cowen and Kevin Grier explain why sports labor disputes are so odd.
- A look back at Kurt Vonnegut’s odd life and bitter end.
- Jesse McKinley takes a jaunt through Death Valley.
- Afflictor Nation: Great Britain rules in October.
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