Afflictor: Hoping this Mother’s Day that you weren’t born to…
…the Tan Mom…
…nor the Teen Mom, but, you know, a wise mom.
Please don’t let another one of my sons be President.
- Old Print Article: Theosophists search for the next messiah. (1913)
- Featured Videos: Ed Sullivan interviews Fidel Castro (1959) + Taylor Mead has lost touch with the world + IBM predicted wearable computing (1997) + Two recent TV interviews with George Saunders + Edward R. Murrow interviews Jay Forrester and his Whirlwind computer (1951) + Marshall McLuhan assessing the role of the classroom in a decentralized technological age.
- Recently Posted on NYC’s Craigslist: When I say that I’m still able to rub my feet together, I’m lying + Grandpa’s the lucky one.
- U.S. dead-letter offices have been essentially killed by technology.
- Distressing news about America’s top-heavy economic recovery.
- In these desperate times, American suicide rates have risen sharply.
- Trygve Bauge wants to delay death until he can defeat it.
- John du Pont thought he was the Dalai Lama, was actually a madman.
- Jonathan Alter reveals the extent of Steve Jobs’ hatred of Fox News.
- Elon Musk is considering adding an auto-pilot option to Tesla cars.
- Robocar liability issues aren’t as complicated as they seem.
- Hooshang Amirahmadi, Iranian Presidential candidate, did an Ask Me Anything.
- Many of our vocabulary words were in use 15,000 years ago.
- Benoit Mandelbrot, father of the fractal, has a posthumous memoir.
- There is going to be a posthumous Andy Kaufman comedy album.
- Special-effects legend Ray Harryhausen passes away.
- In the ’70s., athlete Glenn Burke was openly gay with his teammates.
- Author Fei Dao explains the role of sci-fi in contemporary China.
- Big Data anticipatory systems are very useful, very invasive.
- Eric Schmidt tries to comfort people about Internet privacy issues.
- Human testing of memory-chip implants may soon begin.
- Genetically modified chestnut trees are being planted in America.
- A brief note from 1909 about a wealthy feline.
- A brief note from 1888 about a majestic bird.
- A brief note from 1904 about an animal trainer.
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