Afflictor: Wishing Mitt Romney hadn’t tried to distract people from his lunkheaded comments about London by…
…coldcocking Prince Philip.
- Old Print Articles: Coroner threatens to shoot “automobilists” (1902) + Whalers kill sea monster, exhibit tail in saloon (1884).
- Featured Videos: Olympic ceremonies became big-budget spectacle in Los Angeles (1984) + The first test-tube baby is born (1978) + Elon Musk is planning a new, superfast mode of transport + Paddy Chayefsky discusses Network with Dinah Shore (1976) + Alan Abel pretended to run a celebrity sperm bank + Ikea catalog becomes augmented + Robert Olsen designed modernist purple cube furniture (1973) + Richard Nixon phoned the astronauts on the moon (1969) + Some of Sally Ride’s contemporaries in action (1977) + Robot baby in hoodie wants hug + Charlton Heston being interviewed (and annoyed) (1979).
- Recently Posted on NYC’s Craigslist: Want a job, asshole? + Your child will struggle with grammar and usage + My frugal nature knows no bounds + The odds are against my becoming a supermodel.
- The honest argument for people who want assault weapons to be legal.
- 1 thing about Anderson Cooper’s Aurora coverage.
- 1 thing about the removal of the Joe Paterno statue.
- Short-term sports stadiums are nothing new.
- Will a government or a private company will be the first to Mars?
- Richard Feynman explains the distinction between the past and future.
- Intelligent mobility is probably inevitable.
- Martin Amis analyzes the nature of the 2011 London riots.
- Christopher Buckley has fun facts about Vladimir Lenin’s corpse.
- The WSJ wants to pretend that the private sector built the Internet.
- Janet Radcliffe Richards thinks we should be able to sell our kidneys.
- Some people think we should use bio-enhancement to develop morality.
- Swiss sociologist Dirk Helbing examines the dark side of our connectivity.
- Esther Dyson suggests we should begin quantifying communities.
- A 21-year-old female gravedigger from Norway answers questions.
- Greg Lindsay profiles an airport-centric South Korean development.
- A brief explanation of the Uncanny Valley Effect.
- Moshe Safdie is something of a Method architect.
- Imagining what humans will look like in 3000 A.D.
- A brief note from 1844 about a ship’s arrival.
- A brief note from 1901 about horse skiing.
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