Afflictor: Thinking Lance Armstrong isn’t likely attracting the same level of groupies anymore.
- Featured Videos: A documentary featuring William Faulkner (1952) + Michael Caine’s very first American talk show interview (1965) + Magazine and ad legend George Lois visits Jimmy Kimmel + Merv Griffin meets Sharon Tate (1966) + Creepy robot facial expressions + Michael Crichton discusses the coming personal computer revolution (1983) + Deep Space Industries plans to mine asteroids + The complete version of Andrei Tarkovsky: A Poet in the Cinema (1983) + Japanese dental-training robot.
- Recently Posted on NYC’s Craigslist: When I get done with you, you’ll need a psychiatrist. Of course, I can help with that. + We’ll definitely save money on condoms + I am legally going to be murdered by a reptile.
- Should billionaires be praised for giving away part of their super-wealth?
- George Saunders discusses the use of technology in his fiction.
- Thriller writer Robert Ludlum wasn’t a fan of intrusive computers.
- Ida Wood wanted to hide her whole life in a Manhattan hotel room.
- Biologist George Church thinks we can clone Neanderthals.
- Michael KInsley wonders why Paul Haggis took so long to turn on Scientology.
- Recalling the story of a couple who escaped the Jonestown massacre.
- Being a vegan doesn’t mean you’re not killing animals.
- Chairman Mao’s American sidekick is currently living in Arizona.
- Martin Luther King thought Americans needed to live together. (So does President Obama.)
- Charles Krauthammer knows the GOP must now tread carefully.
- In the 1850s, there were plans to collect every telegraph message.
- America probably hasn’t reached an economic-growth endgame.
- A Mayan apocalypse prepper did an Ask Me Anything on Reddit.
- The Digital Editor at the Economist did an Ask Me Anything on Reddit.
- An IHOP night-shift waitress did an Ask Me Anything on Reddit.
- Edge thinkers try to pinpoint what we should fear about the future.
- In the future, cars could wirelessly become insta-social networks.
- A Dutch architect wants to print an entire home.
- A brief note from 1858 about a boating trip.
- A brief note from 1885 about a guest who stayed.
- A brief note from 1891 about a hotel guest.