Afflictor: Concerned that the Supreme Court decision might not be good for health care in America.
- Old Print Articles: Women enjoy wearing dead woodpeckers in their hats (1886) + Drowned book critic Mrgaret Fuller’s body probably didn’t wash up on the beach (1885).
- Classic Photograph: Communards, After the Coup de Grâce (1871).
- Featured Videos: TV ad offers DeLoreans at the closeout price of $18,895 (1983) + A $10K vehicle that runs on oxygen + Buckminster Fuller disliked traditional geometry education + The Xerox Alto was ground zero in modern personal computing (1979) + Michio Kaku identifies the most dangerous technology imaginable + Alex Haley profiled when Roots made him a household name (1977) + A brief portrait of Ansel Adams (1975).
- Recently Posted on NYC’s Craigslist: I would like your permission to become a prostitute + Do you need to induce vomiting? + I love to drink RC and A&W, but please don’t ask me to spell them.
- Freeman Dyson recalls his friend, the junk scientist Immanuel Velikovsky.
- Allen Barra remembers that progressive feminist Richard Nixon.
- Survival Condo allows for an apocalypse with amenities.
- Dardevil Karl Wallenda’s great success led to his tragic failure.
- Artist LeRoy Nieman and his mustache were dissed by SI in 1975.
- Robert Zubrin thinks we have stopped pushing science forward.
- John Cook reconsiders Watergate wonders Woodward and Bernstein.
- Hannah Bloch asks elemental questions about Easter Island’s mysteries.
- In 1999, Stephen Jay Gould attacked that stubborn idiocy Creationism.
- Malcolm Gladwell provides a brief description of Microsoft’s Nathan Myhrvold.
- A visit to the Ann Arbor resting place for failed consumer products.
- Alexis Madrigal briefly explains the origins of Technocracy.
- BBC’s Adam Curtis analyzes the nature of counterinsurgency.
- Doctors in 1812 worried about cannonballs and internal combustion.
- Amanda Katz examines what the advent of e-books means.
- Disposable thumbnail watches might be the future of timepieces.
- Dallas’ Love Field aims to make check-in a paperless and stopless process.
- Steven Pinker doesn’t buy into the idea of group selection theory.
- Photographer Edward Burtynsky explains how he became a good editor.
- Eugene Selznick was really good at volleyball and ballyhoo.
- A brief note from 1898 about a double funeral.
- A brief note from 1876 about a detached finger.
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