Afflictor: Thinking that this was an election in which the PAC man…
…wasn’t able to beat the pizza man.
- Thoughts About the Presidential Election Results.
- Even More Proof That Donald Trump Is A Complete Moron.
- A Better Assignment for the New York Times Public Editor.
- Even in an industry of blowhards, Joe Scarborough stands out.
- Despite What Some People Say, voting is really important.
- 5 Things About Us That Future People Won’t Believe.
- Old Print Articles: Insane private zoos were popular in London (1901) + Bram Stoker’s new novel, Dracula (1900).
- Featured Videos: A “living” Allosauraus from Japan + Merv Griffin interviews Jerry Brown (1981) and Dennis Hopper (1971) + Berndnaut Smilde releases his indoor clouds + Gary Numan’s techie cautionary tale (1978) + A new high-speed bot hand + Demo of Harvard’s pop-up robotic bee + A paper-like, low-power color video display + Customizable Dragonfly bots can spy and photograph + Vertical urban farming in Singapore.
- Recently Posted on NYC Craigslist: We will go to any lengths to not admit that we are swingers + Everything must go + I want you to be drug free, but you have to be high to be interested in me + If Romney had won and Obamacare was scrapped, there were still alternatives + Ashton Kutcher is trying to make movies again + I give you my word, which is worth nothing.
- Manners maven Letitia Baldrige just passed away.
- A look inside Obama’s data-crunching war room.
- Robert Shields wrote in his diary every five minutes for decades.
- Literature is data, but it’s also other things.
- The “Pretties” of Thailand torture themselves to achieve beauty.
- Collagist Peter Blake designed the Sgt. Pepper’s album cover.
- A collection of some of the Abraham Lincoln posts.
- Spiegel looks at the dichotomy of modern India.
- Douglas Brinkley interviews a pre-election President Obama
- The definition of death changes as science and medicine change.
- Unlike the rest of the GOP, Chris Christie put people before politics.
- Benign neglect is often key to the survival of information.
- A 1993 memo by Nathan Myhrvold about the coming tech revolution.
- College admissions will soon be limitless.
- Kwame Anthony Appiah looks at political biases in the time of Obama.
- Federal guidelines for driverless cars are currently being determined.
- An analysis of driverless cars from the Conversable Economist.
- A new Leos Carax film is fueled by the Tech Age’s creative disturbance.
- It’s possible that we live in a multiverse and not just a universe.
- There is a renewed interest in the medical uses of psychedelics.
- A Blockbuster employee subjects herself to a Reddit Ask Me Anything.
- A bra-like system for breast-cancer screening has been developed.
- A brief note from 1885 about a sex change.
- A brief note from 1895 about a clean woman.
- A brief note from 1866 about a newborn.
- A brief note from 1881 about a new tenant.
- A brief note from 1885 about a Swedish witch.
- Afflictor Nation: Great Britain rules in October.
- This week’s Afflictor keyphrase searches.