Afflictor: Believing Mitt Romney's dog won't just wait around for the next family vacation.
- 1 Recent Film I Liked Now On Home Video: The Skin I Live In.
- Mike Daisey doesn’t yet seem to grasp that he really screwed up.
- Old Print Articles: An East Tennessee bully meets his end (1887) + A rat is fitted with a wooden leg (1898).
- A brief note from 1848 about a premature burial.
- Featured Videos: Dick Cavett with Noël Coward and Lunt and Fontanne (1970) + B.F. Skinner demonstrates his Teaching Machine (1954) + Marshall McLuhan ruins go-go bars forever + Helen Keller meets Martha Graham (1954) + William F. Buckley queries Timothy Leary (1967), David Merrick (1966), Tom Wolfe (1981) + Neil Armstrong’s parents on I’ve Got a Secret (1962) + Pedestrian airbags from Volvo + Predictions about 2003 tech by AT&T (1991) + The Carpenters perform for Richard Nixon (1973) + Maxwell Maltz sells his self-help book (1960s).
- Recently Posted on NYC’s Craigslist: German men should be very worried + That dude Austin thought buying a koala bear was a good idea + Let us bore each other + I’m like a raccoon, but not as smart.
- Victoria and Todd G. Bucholz analyze why young Americans’ lack mobility.
- Timothy Ferris makes an argument for engineers over intellectuals.
- An early expression of globalization, via Paddy Chayefsky.
- Driverless cars will make brake pedals less important.
- Jonah Lehrer believes that creativity is learned, not innate.
- Robert Reich thinks the GOP’s focus on private immorality is misplaced.
- The Encyclopaedia Britannica kills off its print volumes.
- A tidy summation of the GOP’s hard right turn by Louis Menand.
- Batteries and processors will soon improve exponentially.
- Book and music collecting is different in our downloadable age.
- Words are disappearing at a rapid rate over the last two decades.
- Read a classic 1958 Fortune article about urban planning by Jane Jacobs.
- Electric cars may eventually be recharged by the roads they drive on.
- The intersection of modern technology and shopping.
- Johann Hari examines the troubled city-state of Dubai.
- John Brockman’s essay about eccentric evolutionary theorist Robert Trivers.
- A 1999 Michael Paterniti article about extreme science in New Mexico.
- An explanation of how video games can provoke our emotions.
- This week’s Afflictor keyphrase searches.