Afflictor: Fearing those supporting Chris Christie for the VP slot are disappointed.
- Old Print Articles: Teddy Roosevelt’s eagle dies from consumption (1899) + Gunplay leads to an engagement (1877).
- Featured Videos: Merv Griffin meets with Andy Warhol and Edie Sedgwick (1965), Salvador Dali (1965), Tallulah Bankhead and Willie Mays (1966), Timothy Leary (1966), Francis Ford Coppola (1979) + ESPN promo by Errol Morris + The first American Presidential press conference carried by satellite (1962) + B.F. Skinner didn’t believe in the idea of free will + Printing a home in less than a day + Ty Cobb appears on I’ve Got a Secret (1966).
- Recently Posted on NYC Craigslist: I’m not encouraging you to murder animals, but I’m not discouraging you, either + I smell like a graveyard, please hire me + I want you to be as big an asshole as I am + Even granny porn makes me competitive.
- Christine Rosen looks at the morality of our reliance on tech.
- In the ’60s, Manfred Clynes and Nathan Kline wanted to alter humanity.
- Bio-hackers are experimenting with real-life cyborgs.
- Manfred Clynes loves Chopin and cyborgs.
- Athletes should be able to take drugs that aren’t dangerous.
- Philip Zimbardo thinks the American male is in lots of trouble.
- Affordable Bootstrapping can cut the cost of interstellar building.
- Recently deceased critic Robert Hughes did not love network news.
- Gore Vidal felt America’s Cold War victory was a Pyrrhic one.
- Some people want to live in underwater sea colonies
- We haven’t achieved utopia, but we’re living in a golden age.
- Economists explain the best strategies for winning Olympic medals.
- The Asch Conformity Experiments revealed our desire to fit in.
- Humans (and computers) sometimes see faces where they aren’t.
- Some MIT hippy may have saved Apollo 13 from disaster.
- Japan is taking desperate steps to compete in a globalized world.
- Some Earth cities are suitable stand-ins for possible Martian cities.
- James Gleick examines the art of auto-correct.
- India’s poorest are making use of solar power.
- A brief note from 1896 about a bad nosebleed.
- A brief note from 1880 about a bad nose job.
- A brief note from 1877 about a dance.
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