Afflictor: Thinking the GOP’s health-care alternative still has some details to work out.
- Old Print Articles: “Squallers–The Baby Show at Midget Hall” (1877) + Francis Schlatter, Faith Healer (1896-1901).
- Featured Videos: Buckminster Fuller discussing the Dymaxion House (1929) + The GOP wasn’t a party of the 1% until recently + Orson Welles’ documentary Filming Othello (1978) + Blind man behind the wheel of a Google self-driving car + What Google would have looked like in the 1980s + William F. Buckley meets Saul Alinsky (1967) + Miniature fast food from Japan + Robot jumps 30 feet + James Day interviews Kurt Waldheim (1973) + Philip Johnson and Susan Sontag discuss the Seagram Building from the inside + How to link public spaces in cities + Huge git Russell Harty interviews David Bowie (1975), Gary Numan, Quentin Crisp (1985).
- Recently Posted on NYC’s Craigslist: Even LSD can’t shut me up + I sold my couch last month, and now I’m down to this + Steve + I need to become more judgmental.
- Steven Boone goes in search of free wi-fi in the dead of the night.
- Nicholas de Monchaux answers question about Apollo spacesuits.
- U.S. Intelligence experts believe that water may soon be used a weapon.
- Andy Greenwald at Grantland thinks TV’s auteur greatness may be over.
- Shaun Randol looks at the numbing intersection of warfare and software.
- Some people want to give bonobos control of robots.
- Airport-centric cities may or may not be the wave of the 21st century.
- Forbes’ sports team valuations make even less sense to me now.
- How different would the U.S. be if half our Presidents had been women?
- Self-healing plastic is closer to becoming a reality than ever.
- George Dyson thinks we need to reexamine our digital world.
- John Gray derides the high cost of Utopian visions.
- Michael Joseph Gross examines the big questions facing the Internet.
- Alex Pappademas looks at the strange life of angry prop comic Gallagher.
- Hoaxer Josh Macciello sold Dodgers fans a story they wanted to believe.
- Bill Clegg explains why his younger self was fascinated by three-alarm fires.
- L. Jon Wertheim recalls a tennis match between Titanic survivors.
- Raffi Khatchadourian’s 2009 reportage about the food-flavor industry.
- An excerpt from Mies van der Rohe’s 1969 obituary.
- A brief note from 1890 about a guy who dug up a skeleton.
- A brief note from 1877 about an Italian who died in a barn.
- Afflictor Nation: Great Britain regains its title in March.
- This week’s Afflictor keyphrase searches.