Afflictor: Looking for a single image that can represent the beginnings of the baseball season and the gay honeymoon season.
- Old Print Article: Religious fanatic murders little girl. (1908)
- Featured Videos: William F. Buckley interviews Eldridge Cleaver (1969), Jorge Luis Borges (1977) and Joan Baez (1979) + Andy Kaufman brings his hijinx to Carnegie Hall (1979) + Robotic snake that can perch itself on poles and branches.
- Recently Posted on NYC’s Craigslist: I usually wear a condom when I cuddle + I also found the Magna Carta in my sock drawer + There are probably better ways to minimize risk.
- Buzz Bissinger dresses better, still an a-hole.
- Recalling the “golden age” of skyjacking in the ’60s and ’70s.
- Man sells “shares” of his life, lets “stockholders” make decisions for him.
- John Gray thinks tech advances have camouflaged moral backsliding.
- A “professional namer” for a branding agency does an Ask Me Anything.
- Is genetically modifying our descendants an option or an obligation?
- Vice to be the next CNN, something even CNN doesn’t want to be.
- Wingnut Liz Cheney can’t help but be an extremist fool.
- Douglas Rushkoff thinks narrative is vanishing in our brave new world.
- Adam Curtis examines the “fake objectivity” that obscures societal power.
- A sex cult at Horace Mann scarred some students for a lifetime.
- Coal, gas and oil are not absolutely necessary to produce energy.
- Human drivers and Google driverless cars don’t always merge well.
- Nolan Bushnell thinks we should produce more Americans like Steve Jobs.
- The future didn’t arrive in the year 2000; it always arrives.
- The subscription model to purchase content didn’t start with cable TV.
- Charles Webb, author of The Graduate, has suffered for his idealism.
- Algorithm-based journalism–what could go wrong?
- Stanford University making progress in biological computing.
- Should we modify our pets’ DNA to make them more presentable?
- A solar-powered plane that flies at night will soon make a cross-country flight.
- Replacement body parts are being created in vitro.
- The oblivious studio notes sent to Ridley Scott about Blade Runner.
- Armenian schoolchildren have compulsory chess classes.
- A brief note from 1909 about medicinal cheese.
- A brief note from 1912 about smart Parisians.
- A brief note from 1908 about a healthy woman.
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