- Old Print Articles: Educated monkey plays vaudeville (1909) + Eccentric inventor tries to live without food, starves to death (1903) + Unusual inventions aimed at helping the blind and deaf (1903).
- Featured Videos: Alan Whicker interviews “Papa Doc” Duvalier (1969), Butch Cassidy’s sister (1978), Harold Robbins (1971) and a lottery winner (1966) + Muhammad Ali and Joe Louis briefly form a detente (1966) + J.Z. Knight pretends to channel Ramtha (1985) + Beyond the Fringe changed comedy on (at least) two continents (1964) + Mike Wallace visits the Washington Post in the aftermath of Watergate (1974) + Peter Sellers in ads for TWA as an international playboy, an enthusiastic Scotsman and a jolly if condescending Brit (1970s) + Harold “Odd Job” Sakata destroys Johnny Carson’s Tonight Show set (1960s) + A report on the fledgling solar-power industry (1976).
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- Apart from money, J. Paul Getty wasn’t a very rich man.
- David Epstein, author of the Sports Gene, did an Ask Me Anything.
- Julian Assange manages his empire from a ladies’ room in a London embassy.
- Margalit Fox has an obituary about America’s oldest typewriter repairman.
- Facebook is supposed to make us more satisfied, but it doesn’t.
- Interstellar archaeologists look for lost civilizations in space.
- Like it or not, the micro-drone revolution is coming.
- You can’t yet shoot down drones in Colorado.
- Errol Morris discusses Donald Rumsfeld’s obsession with words.
- Astrophysicist Roger Angel wants the American Southwest to power the world.
- Contrarian conceptualist John Baldessari rethinks art-world branding.
- As Pico Iyer points out, tragedy only occasionally has meaning.
- Jellyfish may be taking over the oceans.
- Space farming may be the key to species survival.
- Google is competing with traditional automakers in the autonomous sector.
- Autonomous vehicles will arrive incrementally.
- A look into the environmental impact of Tesla Motors.
- Journalist Caspar Henderson discusses The Techno-Human Condition.
- Today’s hackers are engaged in serious cyberwar.
- DARPA is planning underwater, autonomous military systems.
- An interactive timeline about the history of the Dow.
- Charles Bukowski was investigated by the FBI.
- Cal Worthington sold cars, was great at hoopla.
- Photographer Jim Mangan captures the desert’s otherworldy beauty.
- Robotic maggots can eat your brain tumors.
- A brief note from 1911 about a wealthy baby.
- A brief note from 1908 about a hardware store.
- A brief note from 1883 about a ticklish woman.
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