Afflictor: Sorry to hear that Prince Philip was taken ill.
He probably ate a bad slice of pie.
- Thanks to Michael Douglas, throat cancer comes to a stunning conclusion.
- John Hodgman refuses to retire, so now we must watch his Netflix special.
- The question I’d most like to ask NYC mayoral hopefuls.
- If I had a Twitter account: Scarecrows.
- Old Print Articles: Everyone in 16th-century France was poisoning each other (1907) + Colorado woman nearly marries her brother (1914).
- Featured Videos: Joe Garagiola hosts bubble-gum blowing competition (1975) + Tom Snyder interviews a ridiculous Breatharian (1981) + The Canadian office is becoming computerized (1976) + An early automatic teller machine.
- Recently Posted on NYC’s Craigslist: Even the nice things I say sound kind of threatening + Shockingly, I have a girlfriend + A message from the New York City Tourist Board.
- Even the nice kids are stalking celebrities in contemporary America.
- Roboticist Alexander Reben discusses his robot, which is disarming and nosy.
- Though politically very different, Mark Warner was the Ted Cruz of his day.
- Julian Assange makes good points about Google, but goes too far (as always).
- Binge watching TV is a product of our technology, but what does it mean?
- Con Slobodchikoff believes communicating with animals is plausible.
- Fashion Projects has interviews with Judith Thurman and other notables.
- When war is automated, who can be held accountable?
- Russian billionaire Dmitry Itskov wants to replace death with downloading.
- Dmitry Itskov does an Ask Me Anything on Reddit.
- Thoughts about contemporary zombies.
- Super-recognizers and other quirks of neurology.
- A prediction about the near-term future of voice-to-text input.
- A simple way Finland reduces infant mortality rate.
- Some contemporary physicists have to be very, very wrong.
- A brief note from 1875 about a bad houseguest.
- A brief note from 1897 about the Archangel famine.
- Afflictor Nation: Great Britain rules in May.
- This week’s Afflictor keyphrase searches.