Afflictor: Thinking this was the week that some questionable guys got kicked to the curb.
- Old Print Articles: Hungry prospector kills, cannibalizes his fellow travelers (1883) + Dancing evangelist attempts fraud (1893).
- Featured Videos: Aga Khan IV practices cosmopolitanism (1964) + David Frost and Truman Capote discuss friendship and sex (1969) + Biosphere 2 went bust (1991) + Electric buses that flash charge at stops in 15 seconds + Staples is selling a 3D printer + Economist Andrew McAfee imagines the future of work in a roboticized world + Melvyn Bragg conducts Dennis Potter’s final interview (1994) + A roboticized underground bicycle parking lot in Japan + A flying bicycle in Prague.
- Recently Posted on NYC’s Craigslist: You need to clean your dentures anyway + I’m fat and stupid + Do you seek a sense of permanence?
- Jeffrey Toobin doesn’t think Edward Snowden is a hero.
- Senator Rand Paul discusses civil liberties and dystopian novels.
- Brandon Neely, former Gitmo guard, does an Ask Me Anything.
- Not even Morton Downey Jr. was as bad as Alex Jones.
- Terrorism isn’t the greatest danger, but we cede our civil liberties because of it.
- The Democrats won the nation even while losing Kansas.
- The robot revolution will bring some unexpected emergent behaviors.
- Imagining NYC in 2050, after more ravages of climate change.
- Great as it is, meritocracy has its flaws.
- George Eastman’s marvelous company was laid low by its own innovation.
- Steven Spielberg thinks the Hollywood business model is a time bomb.
- Franco Moretti has made a discipline of “distant reading.”
- A brief note from 1886 about a man who stopped sneezing.
- A brief note from 1891 about devout children.
- A note from 1899 about a severe toothache.
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