Afflictor: Thinking Herman Cain's clever new campaign ad probably won't be enough to save him.
- Old Print Articles: Arsonist monkey perishes in fire (1887) + Elephant sneezes (1902) + Eloping couple apprehended by Pinkertons (1886).
- Classic Photographs: Twain, With Tesla Watching, Lights Up A Room (1894).
- Featured Videos: Howard Hughes survives plane crash (1946) + Troubled fan approaches John Lennon outside his home (1971) + Emilio Pucci designs NASA-ish flight-attendant outfits (1965) + Hints of the online interactivity to come (1986) + Experimenting with mobile phones (1922) + Vin Scully for Continental Airlines (1970s) + Terry Gilliam explains Spielberg’s fatal flaw + Ziggy Stardust madness (1973) + Harvard’s Kilobots enter the marketplace + NASA film about satellites (1970) + Robot-based ketchup delivery system + Katharine Hepburn talks darkly about aging in America (1979) + Computer interfaces that you can feel.
- Recently Posted in NYC’s Craigslist: I’m thinking about dyeing my hair + I want a discount if it’s roadkill + I am very nosy or an artist + Fun new soup recipe.
- Wernher von Braun was a NASA hero with a whitewashed Nazi past.
- The Waffle House has inexplicably become a terrorist stronghold.
- Nat Torkington holds forth on the state of modern libraries.
- Oriana Fallaci dishes on famous interview subjects in 1969.
- Steven Piinker thinks the world is growing less violent.
- Mitt Romney apparently has zero social skills.
- Michael Chabon’s essay mediatates on “The Future.”
- Scientists perfecting factory-grown meat.
- Deadspin takes down baseball superagent Dan Lozano.
- A very brief history of anaesthesia.
- Kerry Callen animates comic-book covers.
- Laurie Winer analyzes legendary film critic Pauline Kael.
- Todd S. Purdum explains how the U.S. war machine was activated.
- The emergence of soft-bodied boneless robots.
- Afflictor Nation: Great Britain rules in November.
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