Afflictor: Thinking women may be forced to have a few extra children during a Santorum Administration.
- 3 Recent Films I Liked Now on Home Video: Bellflower, Contagion, Tuesday, After Christmas.
- A better use for Gandhi’s likeness than selling cheap computers at a high human cost.
- A brief note about the furious reaction to the Clint Eastwood Super Bowl commercial.
- A brief note about M.I.A.’s profane gesture at the Super Bowl.
- Old Print Articles: Maniac wreaks havoc on a street car (1890) + Treatment of mentally ill people in history (1893).
- Classic Photographs: Tim Mara, New York Giants Founder, Watching the Ponies (1934) + Elsa Schiaparelli, With Mannequin, Wearing Shoe Hat (1937).
- Featured Videos: The madness of Fischer-Spassky (1972) + Barbie is a terrible doctor and a terrible astronaut + Louis CK hating on Twitter + Mike Douglas with Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly (1976) + Chuck Yeager on What’s My Line? (1964) + Clement Greenberg not getting Pop Art + BMW spot by Die Antwoord cinematographer Rob Malpage + Walter Cronkite questions Carl Sagan about UFOs (1966) + Jesse Owens back in America after quashing Hitler (1936) + Intellivoice spoke to you but could not answer you (1982).
- Recently Posted on NYC’s Craigslist: I have too much disposable income + This probably won’t end well + How to be accomplished in America + Even though you only want the $100, I am going to explain the full situation.
- The first GPS for automobiles was commercially available in 1909.
- Eric Kleinberg looks at the ever-increasing number of people living alone.
- A brief David Remnick anecdote about President Obama.
- Sally Adee of New Scientist experiences brain enhancement.
- NASA Biocapsules provide automatic diagnosis and time-release medicine.
- Fracture Putty can heal bones within days.
- Richard Feynman saw the miniaturization of computers in 1960.
- Austrian software designer Harald Haas streams data with light bulbs.
- Amazon is launching a brick-and-mortar retail store in Seattle.
- Composer Philip Glass gets a new profile in the Village Voice.
- The education gap between haves and have-nots is growing in America.
- George Esper, legendary Vietnam War reporter, passes away.
- Fortune profiles the little-known mogul behind 5-Hour Energy.
- A brief note from 1856 about a Native-American chief with two mouths.
- This week’s Afflictor keyphrase searches.