Afflictor: Thinking that the 2012 Halloween costume that is scarier than a zombie…
…or even a zombie cannibal…
…is this.
- Even more proof that Donald Trump is a complete moron.
- Some thoughts about this week’s Presidential debate.
- Some thoughts about the baseball playoffs.
- Old Print Article: H.H. Bliss was the first American killed in an auto accident.
- Featured Videos: Morley Safer profiles William F. Buckley (1981) + Cindy Kleine is making a documentary about her husband, André Gregory + David Frost interviews John & Yoko (1972) + Al Jarnow’s classic animated short “Cubits” (1978) + Now there’s a wheelchair that can climb steps + Edwin Newman interviews Golda Meir (1973) + A chronicle of SEALAB II (1966).
- Recently Posted on NYC’s Craigslist: We just got around to renting The Social Network + Women everywhere can begin rejoicing + Why die from stress when you can die from boredom? + Children tend to have nightmares anyhow.
- A brief New Yorker piece from 1965 about Stanley Kubrick making 2001.
- A longer New Yorker profile from 1966 about Kubrick making 2001.
- Daniel Lieberman has an excellent article at Edge about endurance athletics.
- Eldridge Cleaver was a Black Panther firebrand, designed “penis pants.”
- Israeli inventor Izhar Gafni has created a sturdy cardboard bicycle.
- Jonathan Chait reveals the post-election plans of Obama and Romney.
- Freeman Dyson explains the uncertainty of science in the Digital Age.
- The post-familial phenomena is being widely felt across the world.
- John Cheever at 66, profiled by People magazine.
- Zappos founder Tony Hsieh hopes to reinvent downtown Las Vegas.
- Richard Ford’s concise take on the modern Republican Party.
- Food writer Michael Pollan does an Ask Me Anything on Reddit.
- Even before the spread of driverless cars, autos have hackable parts.
- DNA-sequencing machines may be sent to Mars to look for life.
- Disinformation about genetically modified foods is helping no one.
- Oregon man living in decommissioned plane.
- We can plan our next billion years, but maybe AI should.
- Deforestation is similar to the burning of the Library of Alexandria.
- Discarded plastic trash being used to fuel long airplane trip.
- Quantum computing would place unimaginable power on every screen.
- Carl Zimmer explains how we’ve tried to understand brain function.
- A brief note from 1886 about a family dinner.
- A brief note from 1884 about a masked man.
- A brief note from 1893 about a homicidal man’s cure.
- A brief note from 1891 about a hypnotized husband.
- This week’s Afflictor keyphrase searches.