Afflictor: Thinking it might be best that Chen Guangcheng can't see...
...if he's granted asylum in New Jersey.
- Some thoughts about the furor over President Obama’s bin Laden campaign ad. And one more thing about Arianna Huffington’s “despicable” comment.
- Old Print Article: Neck goes missing after autopsy (1899) + Double execution in the gallows in Texas (1891).
- Classic Photographs: Thomas Ketchum, Separated from His Head (1901).
- Featured Videos: Stockhausen discussing human evolution (1972) + A couple minutes of the great Johnny Dowd + Stanley Siegel discusses technology with Al Goldstein and Jerry Lewis (1976) + Machines assembling, inspecting machines + Teenager is witness to robot mistreatment + Norman Mailer really hated plastic + Jack Nicholson battles the desert and loses (1975) + Glenn Gould on why he gave up performing live (1969) + The Record Vacuum will protect your information (1979).
- A pop-up sentient city is planned for Portugal.
- Dubai will soon have the underwater hotel it deserves.
- Race driver Stirling Moss crashes in 1962, his brain rewires itself.
- Bain Capital made man Edward Conard thinks the 1% should be richer.
- A Russian media mogul wants to permanently store human minds.
- Paul Krugman hates income inequality, loves beard maintenance.
- Adam Curtis looks back at Norman Mailer’s 1969 mayoral campaign.
- EST salesman Werner Erhard does his first interview in two decades.
- Robert Reich doesn’t believe we are in the endgame of the Republic.
- Roger Ebert amends his “10 Greatest Films of All Time” list.
- William Hammond tried desperately to improve Civil War medicine.
- Atul Gawande examines a transforming moment in medical history.
- Stanley Milgram thought in 1972 that city life was dehumanizing.
- Revisiting the great solar storm of 1859.
- Wallets begin to dematerialize, move into the cloud.
- Tom Vanderbilt looks at the potential and pitfalls of the Internet.
- A BBC report about the likelihood of warfare shifting online.
- Prophet of doom Mike Davis fears L.A. will burn a third time.
- A brief note from 1900 about Teddy Roosevelt pardoning a murderer.
- A brief note from 1902 about a leper baseball series.
- A brief note from 1898 about dogs getting tattoos in London.
- Afflictor Nation: Great Britain reigns in April.
- This week’s Afflictor keyphrase searches.