Afflctor: Thinking there are some numbers Paul Ryan should keep in mind when doing the math for his draconian budgets.
- Old Print Article: X-ray moving-picture machine shows brain at work (1910).
- Featured Video: Andy Kaufman had trust issues + Advertising exec predicted the future of personalization (1967) + Steve Martin shows his pajamas to David Letterman (1980) + Tech invention makes billiards easy + Footage of the never-realized hovercraft, Aérotrain (1970s).
- Recently Posted on NYC’s Craigslist: I’m an exterminator whose equipment got stolen + I believe my British accent will allow me to get away with anything + Do you want visual proof of your creepiness?
- Are our cheap, amazing tech tools giving us false hope?
- Hard to believe, but some billionaires are really awful people.
- An Atlanta software engineer has stopped eating, just drinks Soylent.
- P.W. Singer considers society and policy as drones get smaller.
- Measuring the economic impact of the Internet.
- Tel Aviv might, perhaps, be getting NASA Transport Pods.
- A Spanish port city is filled with sensors recording and reading data.
- Despite Big Data, unreason and superstition continue to flourish.
- Tesla Motors is paying off its government loan five years early.
- Rachel Maddow just did an Ask Me Anything at Reddit.
- A woman becoming a CEO isn’t the same thing as a women’s movement.
- Neil deGrasse Tyson wonders if we’re too stupid to figure out the universe.
- Steven Pinker doesn’t think violent video games cause actual violence.
- Evgeny Morozov isn’t sure that we should solve crime–and other problems.
- Daunting news for those who wish to use DNA to reanimate dinosaurs.
- Tom Vanderbilt goes to a convention of lockpickers, the original hackers.
- Robert Ingersoll was a famous 19th-century agnostic orator.
- Wired offered Apple advice–some good, some bad–in 1997.
- Crowdsourcing has now designed an automobile.
- A brief note from 1873 about a thirsty man.
- A brief note from 1885 about a hairy guy swimming.
- A brief note from 1904 about a tan women.
- This week’s Afflictor keyphrases searches.