Afflictor: Fearing Arnold Schwarzenegger has been in the maid’s room again.
- Even more proof that Donald Trump is a moron.
- Old Print Articles: Illinois boy sweats blood (1881) + New typewriter described in excruciating detail (1867).
- Classic Photograph: Luther Burbank, with Spineless Cactus (1908).
- Featured Videos: James Day interviews Ayn Rand (1974) + A paper robot that walks + Andrew McAfee addresses the robotization of labor + William F. Buckley meets Black Panther Huey P. Newton (1973) + Cher and Andy Kaufman in the Garden of Eden (1979) + Andy Williams and Claudine Longet welcome the Osmonds + Tom Wolfe’s Marshall McLuhan documentary (1984).
- Recently Posted on NYC’s Craigslist: I bring joy to people by reminding them of crippling disease and injury + I will get rid of the rodents in your home, and then you will give me your home + I may be overvaluing my soul by $1,967,000.
- 5 American novels that David Foster Wallace really loved.
- No one should ever eat at Wendy’s.
- An Obama victory could bring the GOP back to the center.
- Was the first Ali-Frazier fight the greatest night ever n NYC?
- Fleets of driverless taxis may develop from automatic cars.
- Economist John Quiggin wonders if we’ll embrace a toil-free world.
- Geneticist George Church sees synthetic biology becoming popular.
- Replacement refs weren’t the biggest problem with the NFL.
- Dr. Rich Terrile of NASA thinks machines will “awaken,” take over.
- Transient medical electronics can dissolve inside your body.
- Megan Garber presents a brief history of mechanical horses.
- Tesla Motors announces its first six Supercharger stations.
- Mostly bad news and some good news for electric cars.
- Young males may not be the best soldiers in the tech age.
- Private sector space programs may or my not be a good thing.
- Innovative Chinese builder Zhang Yue profiled in Wired.
- Optogenics may be effective in behavioral modification.
- Jimmy Breslin’s great 1963 profile of JFK’s gravedigger.
- Attempts are being made to repopularize airships.
- Kevin Kelly reveals his favorite scientific explanation.
- An analysis of economic systems based on debt creation.
- Our fears about pandemics sometimes confuse our judgement.
- A note from 1854 about a missing farmer.
- A brief note from 1887 about Dr. Leach’s eye.
- This week’s Afflictor keyphrase searches.
“It’s not a tumor.”