Afflictor: Thinking Russia recently received a gigantic ball of debris.
No, not that one.
That one.
- Peggy Noonan still favors narratives over facts.
- Donald Trump, a moron, has started calling other people “morons.”
- Old Print Article: Chemist runs curiosity shop. (1885)
- Classic Photograph: Edgar Allan Poe, a Year Before Dying. (1848)
- Featured Videos: David Brinkley reports on the urban-planning wonder of Walt Disney World (1972) + Timothy Leary and William F. Buckley debate the finer points of LSD + Walter Ctonkite imganing the workplace of the future (1967).
- Recently Posted on NYC’s Craigslist: Some coke dealers are unreliable + A thrilling new novel from an author with a 27-year career as a systems analyst for the Federal Aviation Agency at the Seattle Air Route Traffic Control Center + At least they’re using condoms.
- Origins of the Ferris Wheel and Valentine’s Day.
- Jim Kor wants to print out electric vehicles.
- Russell Baker thinks we may have allowed reforestation to go too far.
- Bill Gates does an Ask Me Anything on Reddit.
- The airplane of the future may (or may not) have flapping wings.
- Pretty soon, every car will be connected to the Internet.
- It’s more than four years since there’s been a fatal plane crash in America.
- Bell Labs psychologist John Karlin married behavioral sciences to design.
- Third-party candidates may finally be a threat in American Presidential races.
- Product packaging can be made to be invisible.
- The discovery of the microscopic world changed theology.
- A former prisoner from Joe Arpaio’s Tent City does an Ask Me Anything.
- Despite almost filling the net, a sumo wrestler would be a lousy hockey goalie.
- An interview with Facebook co-founder and New Republic owner Chris Hughes.
- Great Telegraph obituary for an eccentric man named Jungleyes Love.
- A brief note from 1898 about a monkey stew.
- A brief note from 1898 about a woman who awoke.
- This week’s Afflictor keyphrase searches.