Afflictor: Thinking baseball won’t be the same now that the Kardashians have been inside a stadium.
- Old Print Article: Religious fanatic thinks he must murder his daughter. (1885)
- Featured Videos: Two charming Harpo Marx TV appearances (1958/61) + Richard Brautigan interviewed the year before his death (1983) + IBM CEO Ginni Rometty promises Watson 3.0 will debate and reason + Photographer Edward Burtynsky is interviewed by the Economist.
- Recently Posted On NYC’s Craigslist: We think Grandpa died from natural causes + I would be the best MTA chairman ever + It would be great if this person won $2 on a scratch-and-win ticket tomorrow.
- Texas may be the future of America–or perhaps not.
- In 1985, the New York Times thought the laptop would be a niche item.
- We won’t survive without technological progress, but it is a threat.
- Nick Carr thinks our abilities are being degraded by a reliance on tech.
- Carl Sagan gave Stanley Kubrick sound advice for 2001: A Space Odyssey.
- German astronaut Ulrich Walter discusses Gravity and death in space.
- David Carr interviews the backer of the new Glenn Greenwald venture.
- Stanford’s Balaji Srinivasan sort of wants Silicon Valley to secede from America.
- Jack Dorsey wants to expand Silicon Valley technocracy to the rest of the U.S.
- Neuroeconomist Paul Zak did an Ask Me Anything on Reddit.
- Facebook is exploring a new field called “Deep Learning.”
- Amazon is a wildly successful company that doesn’t have profits.
- Wikipedia is threatened by bureaucracy and a lack of diversity.
- President Nixon was an environmentalist who wanted universal health care.
- Elon Musk argues vehemently against hydrogen fuel cells for autos.
- Kira Radinsky has designed powerful predictive data-mining software.
- Bruce Schneier analyzes some of the most pressing Internet security threats.
- Schneier says control of the Internet is being wrested from citizens.
- An argument against electric vehicles that seems too shortsighted.
- Nate Silver reveals the nature of the new FiveThirtyEight blog.
- Paul DePodesta explains baseball as a risk-management venture.
- Jeweler David Birnbaum thinks he knows the key to the universe.
- Armed robots might soon be fighting alongside U.S. ground troops.
- 9 enemas President McKinley received after being shot.
- A brief note from 1885 about trappers.
- A brief note from 1885 about an adept swimmer.
- A brief note from 1909 about twin babies.
- A brief note from 1903 about schoolmates.
- This week’s Afflictor keyphrase searches.