Afflictor: Happy to see the Secret Service hard at work.
- Old Print Articles: Terrible security guard could have saved Lincoln’s Life (1890) + Cannibal discusses flavor of human flesh (1885).
- Classic Photographs: Astronauts, After Desert Survival Training (1964) + Ham the Astrochimp, Upon Return (1961).
- Featured Videos: Joni Mitchell performing the day after Woodstock (1969) + K-Tel LP teaches you better tennis (1974) + Rod Carew helps you distract your children (1978) + Short Christian Marclay doc + B.F. Skinner conditioning pigeons + B.F. Skinner and Robert Epstein conditioning pigeons (1982) + Woody Allen interviews William F. Buckley (1967) + The glory days of air travel (1968) + Atul Gawande lectures about making complicated systems work + Race car driver as philosophical hero (1971) + Sex Pistols wear better in a trailer than a film (1980) + IBM lithium-air car batteries can go for 500 miles without recharge + Gas crisis in Los Angeles (1979) + Brian Eno discusses his 1978 sound installation, Ambient 1: Music for Airports + Scanadu is developing non-invasive diagnostics + Jean-Luc Godard looks at America in the 1960s (1968/72).
- Recently Posted on NYC’s Craigslist: I am probably only going to pretend to murder you + This fresh baked pie will go unclaimed forever + Yes, I murdered my turtle + An instance where “reasonable prices” sounds scary + Somebody is going to die.
- People have always been willing to make huge sacrifices for fleeting fame.
- Will the end of print encyclopedias make knowledge less coherent?
- George A. Custer completely deluded himself and we’re no better.
- Communist Robot presents a Marxist perspective on automation.
- In 1973, Don Lancaster predicted the Internet with TV Typewriters.
- On Mars, a Europe-sized tract of land is made of glass.
- NFL scheduler Howard Katz has trillions of options to consider.
- Yukio-Pegio Gunji used soldier crabs to create a computer.
- Robert Lane Greene examines Facebook’s pros and cons.
- Scientific inquiry into intelligence and memory aided by crowdsourcing.
- Dude who likes having sex with trees answers questions.
- Super-wealthy Americans are fortifying their homes.
- Touré looks at the complicated nature of racism in America.
- Ben Kunz analyzes the field of Unsocial Networks.
- Growing populations don’t necessarily predict poverty.
- James Price has nose of aircraft in garage, pretends to fly.
- Paul Krugman and Robin Wells on the non-response to the Recession.
- Technology has brought about the Second Economy, thinned workforce.
- A brief note from 1896 about portly bicyclists.
- A brief note from 1891 about a medical curiosity.
- A brief note from 1893 about a groom being horsewhipped.
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