Afflictor: Believing that Donald Trump is close to proving…
…that George Washington was actually born in the British Colonies.
- You’re invited to the Lowbrow Reader Reader publication party!
- Look at this great side-boob journalism at the Huffington Post.
- I had a conversation with a Birther in a Brooklyn Starbuck’s.
- Old Print Article: Doctors make artifical noses from human flesh (1888).
- Classic Photography: Andrée Falls Short Of His Goal (1897).
- Featured Videos: Dick Cavett and Eddie Murphy discuss the N-word (1985) + Viewtron was an early online service (1983) + Edward R. Murrow points his cameras at MIT’s computer room (1951) + MIT reaserchers have created a low-cost virtual-reality system + Advertising ledgend David Ogilvy meets David Letterman (1983) + William F. Buckley and B.F. Skinner discuss Behaviorism and freedom (1971) + Robert Hughes examines Marcel Duchamp’s meta-machine (1982) + George Plimpton plays goalie for Bobby Orr (1985) + Future energy sources in America (1970s) + Promotional trailer for the Pink Floyd’s Tonite Let’s All Make Love in London (1967).
- Recently Posted on NYC’s Craigslist: When I say “vinyl LP albums,” I mean “panties” + One of my roommates is Dutch + I wonder why my kid is such a smartass + Pay me $3300 to kill you.
- Fran Lebowitz thinks small children are like talking animals.
- Lebowitz was especially honest about race in America in 1997.
- Hologram assistants are being installed at NYC airports.
- Abraham Lincoln was our first tech-friendly President.
- Philosopher David F. Skrbina has become sorta friendly with the Unabomber.
- Authoritarian regimes recalibrate for the Internet Age.
- To H.G. Wells, Utopia wasn’t a place where everything was perfect.
- Raffi Khatchadourian examines a case of face transplantation.
- Zero-gravity design will be necessary to build hotels in outer space.
- Driverless vehicles will clean the environment and make roads safer.
- George Saunders visited Dubai before recession slowed down its boom.
- Robert Zubrin thinks we worry too much about astronauts dying in space.
- Cornell West thinks President Obama worries too much about his legacy.
- William Friedkin explains how Hollywood has changed since the ’70s.
- Serial killers have been aided by car culture and glorified by pop culture.
- John Sculley explains why Apple’s Newton digital assistant failed.
- The recent renaissance in demography has been notable for a shift in focus.
- Gambling on soccer has gotten completely out of control.
- Alex Pareene looks at the political subtext of TED.
- Sci-fi writer Elizabeth Moon thinks we should all get barcodes at birth.
- A brief note from 1900 about a sneezing man.
- A brief note from 1873 about a manure wagon.
- A brief note from 1850 about a French aeronaut.
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