Afflictor: Believing that Playboy spreads will change if the GOP comes to power. (Image by Heather Katsoulis.)
- 1 Recent Film I Liked Now On Home Video: Martha Marcy May Marlene.
- I can’t make sense of Forbes’ company valuations.
- Old Print Articles: Religious sect members beat the snot out of each other (1893) + Deliveryman killed by keg of beer (1895).
- Classic Photograph: Otto Lilienthal, Man With Wings (1895).
- Featured Videos: Charles and Ray Eames on communications (1953) + Playing Asteroids with your vision + A brief Situationist street spectacle + Jaguar doesn’t think the Singularity will come for the 1% + I.M. Pei had a top-down urban renewal plan for Oklahoma City (1967) + Robotic jellyfish powered by hydrogen + Buckminster Fuller on a parapsychology talk show (1980s) + In 1974, James Day interviewed S.J. Perelman, Christopher Isherwood, Ray Bradbury and Edward Teller.
- Recently Posted on NYC’s Craigslist: The person I’m fighting the most is myself + Obamacare even worse than first thought + Of course, if you have some experience as a drug counselor, it probably wouldn’t hurt + I need new life goals + I’m sort of a matchmaker.
- Are there hidden costs in America not having a military draft?
- Ninety-two million Americans don’t use email.
- Dick Teresi doesn’t think it’s easy to tell when someone is dead.
- Evgeny Morozov opines on computer-driven automatic journalism.
- James Surowiecki argues that more employees can mean more profits.
- Bill James explains why crowd control is better except in prisons.
- Michael J. Sandel analyzes a world in which everything is for sale.
- Paul Krugman looks at the precarious position of the Affordable Care Act.
- AT&T’s vibrating steering wheel helps you drive.
- In the 1930s, Nathanael West knew that media was becoming mass.
- Ezra Klein suggests that American Presidents can’t really sell a message.
- Americans were unwittingly dosed with LSD during the ’50s and ’60s.
- Technologist Sebastian Thrun is trying to reinvent higher education.
- Amazon is going to further automate its warehouses.
- Pro hockey players use brain-enhancement techniques.
- Nokia will put a tattoo on you to let you know when you’re getting a text.
- Reading a novel does strange and wonderful things to our brains.
- How Baghdad’s post-Saddam Internet-access market got messed up.
- David and Jackie Siegel want to build the biggest home in America.
- The boom box was more popular than the iPod.
- A brief note from 1897 about a hunchback.
- A brief note from 1901 about bear grooming.
- A brief note from 1886 about a flying man.
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