Afflictor: Thinking 60 Minutes has done stellar work linking…
…Hillary Clinton…
…to the Bengay murders.
- Old Print Articles: Western millionaire buys ear of German immigrant (1903) + Bronx Zoo monkeys undergo ridiculous testing (1909).
- Featured Videos: A robot that absorbs crashes like an insect + Johnny Carson’s final TV appearance (1994) + A secretarial pool in a computerized UK office (1970s) + Kurt Vonnegut discusses mass extinction with Jon Stewart (2005).
- Recently Posted on NYC’s Craigslist:John Mayer, Keith Urban, David Gray, etc. + It’s been fun.
- Celebrity is the detritus of capitalism and one of the costs of democracy.
- Biotech implanters are the latest wave of pioneers.
- Poverty is an impediment, not a springboard, to athletic prowess.
- Why don’t big tech companies build their own solar farms?
- Tyler Cowen believes automation will lead to greater economic inequality.
- In 1970, Norman Mailer knew we’d soon have tiny, hand-held computers.
- Rolling Stone has published a long version of its 1978 Susan Sontag interview.
- Margaret Atwood on the malignant undercurrent of technotopia.
- Luc Sante has written 35 short descriptions of his heroes.
- Be at the world premiere of Revenge of the Mekons.
- Perhaps we’ll soon be able to print out paper computers.
- A revisionist account of America’s transition from horses to automobiles.
- Clive Thompson points out that people write more than ever now.
- 100 driverless pods are coming to Milton Keynes.
- A justification from the Economist for India’s space program.
- The transition to driverless cars isn’t without obstacles.
- Privacy as we knew it isn’t, of course, returning.
- The rest of Blockbuster’s stores are closing. Of course they are!
- Henry Ford’s assembly line was his enduring gift to manufacturing.
- Raymond Loewy designed an awful lot of America.
- The biggest chess match in a decade is upon us.
- The potential for recycling in a world of 3D and 4D printing.
- IMAX’s chairman discusses the emerging international film markets.
- E-books are driving British publishers out of business.
- The polymath doesn’t rely too much on tools.
- A brief note from 1905 about a thirsty snake.
- A brief note from 1907 about an aftershock.
- Afflictor Nation: Great Britain rules In October.
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