Wondering why Mitt Romney is so concerned about IRS audits of Tea Party groups…
…but was fine with the GOP trying to suppress the African-American vote in 2012.
- Old Print Article: Hypnotist buries girl alive (1897).
- Classic Photograph: Mary Baker Eddy, Nearing Mission’s End.
- Featured Videos: W. Kamau Bell humorously examines the racial divide + The earliest and most recent version of “Space Oddity” + Audi presents “piloted parking” + A demo about automatic roads (1997) + Demo of facial-motion capture + Merv Griffin drowns in nostalgia with Beatlemania (1978) + Huntley-Brinkley profile the fall of youth culture (1971).
- Recently Posted on NYC’s Craigslist: Obamacare at work + I am too cheap to pay for a haircut + I will prove to you that there are no free lunches.
- The genetically modified hamburger is ready to be served.
- Jaron Lanier asserts that Moore’s Law has doomed the middle class.
- GQ makes itself look bad while trying to make Ricky Gervais look bad.
- Tampa Bay pitcher Matt Moore hopes for exploding baseballs.
- Elon Musk is working to build electric-car infrastructure.
- Google’s Larry Page wants to create space to do illegal experiments.
- Bret Easton Ellis, who is bad at writing, just did an Ask Me Anything.
- E.O. Wilson, who is good at biology, just an Ask Me Anything.
- We may be too heavily invested in climate destruction to change.
- Baz Luhrmann to adapt Of Mice and Men.
- Barbara Walters broke ground for women, but not for journalism.
- Eric Schmidt wants to ban privately owned drones, but it won’t happen.
- Before there was Moneyball, there was Eric Walker.
- Novelists have to approximate our wired world in new ways.
- Looking at all angles of the rise of machine intelligence.
- Handing over function to algorithms also mean ceding moral judgement.
- Americans attending 1979′s curious Canton Trade Fair glimpsed the future.
- An argument for banning burqas which doesn’t completely pan out.
- Houseplants may be capable of creating electricity.
- A brief note from 1893 about a drunk baby.
- A brief note from 1906 about a jealous janitor.