Afflictor: Fearing that the White House has sent one of its fiercest kill list assassins to terminate Bob Woodward.
Bernstein’s next, bitches.
- I really want the New York Times to survive. How does that happen?
- Old Print Articles: Los Angeles doctor tries two-week cactus diet (1907) + Wealthy Russian starts colony for beautiful people (1904) + Coconut importer joins cult (1909).
- Featured Videos: Dick Cavett interviews Conan O’Brien before he was a talk-show host (1991) + John DeLorean, before his mid-life crisis, addresses Pontiac dealers (1967) + Young Californians become Jesus freaks (1971) + Tom Snyder interviews Alice Cooper (1981).
- Recently Published on NYC’s Craigslist: So, I meet this venture capital guy in a men’s room… + The one person on my block who wasn’t an asshole just moved away + If we shake hands, we may decapitate one another + If he wasn’t depressed before, he is now.
- Ross Andersen and Nick Bostrom wonder if humans can survive in the long run.
- Food-industry leaders met a dozen years ago, made American diets even worse.
- Foodie, writer and reporter Anthony Bourdain did an Ask Me Anything.
- Jim Kor intros the next iteration of his 3D-printed electric car, the Urbee,
- An identical twin did an Ask Me Anything on Reddit.
- A report from the beautiful and barren Inner Mongolia ghost city of Ordos.
- When people buy a rare object, they’re also purchasing the item’s narrative.
- Artists Rick Guidice and Don Davis dreamed up space colonies for NASA.
- Airfares decreased markedly after the industry was deregulated.
- Did the Romans have the technology to create a digital computer?
- Military robots that act like pack animals can now throw cinder blocks.
- British academics are trying to stop robotic weaponry.
- Ethicist William MacAskill thinks do-gooders should head to Wall Street.
- The CIA has infiltrated Hollywood–with liaisons and lobbyists.
- In 4D printing, objects will manufacture themselves.
- A new tool has been invented for parasitic energy harvesters.
- The U.S. government was not founded on the Christian religion.
- Is the nanny state as bad as people make it out to be?
- A new book hangs Christopher Hitchens in effigy.
- A pithy description of the New Orleans Pharmacy Museum.
- Brazilian women of modest means have taken to plastic surgery.
- Duke biologists just reanimated the wings of a dead sparrow.
- A brief note from 1899 about wedding crashers.
- A brief note from 1907 about a pet chicken.
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