Afflictor: Fearing Gov. Chris Christie lost his temper again.
- Old Print Articles: Fraud committed by mummy vendors (1888) + Brazilian aviation pioneer circles Eiffel Tower (1901).
- Classic Photograph: John Muir, Grizzled, Cradled By Nature (1907).
- Featured Videos: A demo of the Kurzweil Reading Machine (1977) + A high-tech, sweat-resistant dress shirt + The AT&T Picturephone demo (1970) + Late-life profile of Buckminster Fuller (1973).
- Recently Posted on NYC’s Craigslist: Quitting drugs has not even occurred to me + By the time you are reading this, I’ve probably been arrested + Hopefully someone else is doing the big thinking.
- Robert Reich analyzes America’s new Gilded Age.
- The Woodlands was initially all watched over by machines of loving grace.
- Gloria Steinem, the year before Ms. magazine was launched.
- Looking at the history of information overload and brain augmentation.
- Neuroscientist David Eagleman on the Internet’s capacity for good.
- Reporter Scott Patterson explains why we need regulation on Wall Street.
- The U.S. military built a fake city in Arizona to blow up.
- Michael Bourne dismantles New York City’s High Line.
- Stephen Hawking on the possibility of intelligent life beyond Earth.
- Stephen Wolfram discusses molecular-level computing.
- Farming’s high-tech future was imagined in 1931.
- Pigeons (and humans) tend to misread information.
- A British hotel offers bibles on Kindles in every room.
- Kurt Vonnegut pointed out that life isn’t exactly fair.
- A brief note from 1900 about lazy organ grinders.
- A brief note from 1897 about a prince’s dandyism.
- Afflictor Nation: Great Britain rules in June.
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