Afflictor: Thinking Hugo Chavez may just be faking his death because he heard America was sending a diplomat to Venezuela.
Too soon!
- How can Tina Fey not be the next Tonight Show host?
- Featured Videos: Mary McCarthy interviewed by Jack Paar (1963) + Robert Kennedy talking to children on Wonderama (1965) + All six episodes of Orson Welles’ Sketch Book (1955).
- Recently posted on NYC’s Craigslist: For some reason, I think it’s wrong to fear tarantulas + I make the most unique soups + And I’ll throw in some skin.
- Today’s blockbuster tech companies will be gone someday.
- So-called sleep disorders may be actual sleeping patterns.
- Some think that Silicon Valley will be the next Detroit.
- A futuristic, carless Arizona ecotopia is at a crossroads.
- Google’s driverless-car software has obstacles to overcome.
- Larry Flynt just figured out that print publications are passé.
- Robots that misbehave can be disciplined, if not imprisoned.
- Can we prohibit anyone born after 2000 from ever buying cigarettes?
- An explanation of “Munchausen By Internet” Diagnosis.
- Britain probably has more trees now than in 1510.
- NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell fears a player will die on the field.
- A former Senior Officer of a luxury cruise line just did an Ask Me Anything.
- Lonely American physics professor finds trouble, not love, online.
- The Kurzweils, father-and-son futurists, predict tech’s next wave.
- We should be experimenting with genetically modified foods.
- Esther Dyson encourages the personalization of medicine.
- Thinking about the legal ramifications of data recorded by smart cars.
- Richard Branson thinks offices will eventually be a thing of the past.
- Roger Ailes explains his relationship with Rupert Murdoch.
- Peggy Noonan, an utter toolbox, is still making up narratives.
- Kurt Vonnegut explaining why he never switched to word processing.
- Evgeny Morozov predicts the near-term future of the Internet.
- Eventually we’ll be able to use technology to talk to animals.
- Americans created “artificial moonlight” in the early years of electricity.
- Chess prodigies aren’t as easy to identify in the Digital Age.
- A brief note from 1902 about the medical system.
- A brief note from 1898 about a heavy sleeper.
- A brief note from 1886 about two marriages.
- Afflictor Nation: Great Britain rules in February.
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