Afflictor: Providing a brief recap...
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...Kardashian marriage.
- Recent Film: Cave of Forgotten Dreams (2011)
- Why the Albert Pujols mega-contract makes financial sense.
- Old Print Articles: Charles Dickens combed his hair a lot (1882) + Grave robbers steal famous corpses (1888).
- Classic Photographs: Diane Arbus profiles twin girls (1968) + Joseph Stalin in a relatively jovial mood (1941).
- Featured Videos: Three short works about semi-consciousness by Michel Gondry + Ronald Reagan responds to news of John Lennon’s murder (1980) + Dick Cavett meets Anthony Burgess (1974) + Diane Arbus profiled the year after her suicide (1972) + Flying robots build 20-foot tower in France + A demo of the influential Xerox Alto (1974) + Walter Cronkite reports on the end of the Iranian Hostage crisis + Time-Slice special effect comes to TV (1993) + Richard Stallman examines Facebook’s surveillance techniques + Commercial for beer-enriched shampoo (1978) + Jean-Luc Godard meditates on TV”s creeping effect on film (1982) + Anne Sexton reads a powerful poem (1966) + Robot personal trainer + Urban planner Constantinos Doxiadis interviewed (1960s).
- Recently Posted on NYC’s Craigslist: I am very stoked about that 3-D Muppets movie + There’s hope yet for drummers + I recently quit my vegan diet.
- Looking back at Diego Rivera’s alleged experiment in cannibalism.
- Philip K. Dick mourning Chairman Mao in 1979.
- David Gelernter predicted our interconnected world.
- Will there soon be pilot-less, automated commercial flights?
- Anne Morrow Lindbergh provides reportage about Apollo 8 in 1969.
- Blake Gopnik explains insane art-world prices.
- The Holden Hurricane, a 1969 Australian concept car, is born again.
- A brief look at the history of credit cards
- Kodak has been all but obliterated by the digital revolution.
- This week’s Afflictor keyphrase searches.