Afflictor: Believing that CNN’s crackerjack news desk learned exclusively this week that JFK has been shot.
- Old Print Articles: Daredevil parachutes from the Statue of Liberty (1912) + Hypnotist accused of cuckoldry and unprofessionalism (1903) + Rotund men enjoy a stout job market (1920).
- Featured Videos: Weeks before his death, fractal father Benoit Mandlelbrot was interviewed by Errol Morris (2010) + An amazing ad for Golden Blox toys + Tom Brokaw visits Joan Didion in Los Angeles (1970s) + Michel Gondry meets Noam Chomsky.
- Recently Posted on NYC’s Craigslist: Strictly speaking, it’s not actually my car + They won’t let me dig up old graves at the cemetery anymore.
- Cliodynamics founder Peter Turchin sees America stability seriously fraying.
- A girl born in America in 2013 has an even-money chance to reach 100.
- Security expert Bruce Schneier discusses post 9/11 airport safety measures.
- In 1963, Jimmy Breslin profiles JFK’s gravedigger.
- The free market has failed to produce new antibiotics.
- Tech titans may be vilified the way bankers are–or perhaps not.
- Autonomous vehicles are gaining traction the way smart roads never did.
- Some think that we’ve reached “peak traffic.”
- Robots will soon be making your greasy hamburgers.
- Feminism and humor are not mutually exclusive.
- Transcript of a surreal news brief road to astronauts on the moon.
- Disaster forecasting is a booming field.
- Howard Stern realizes that technology has stumped the record business.
- William T. Vollmann may have the most unique career of any living writer.
- Jerry Givens, Virginia’s executioner for 17 years, did an Ask Me Anything.
- Periodic World Fairs were replaced by the immediacy of Silicon Valley.
- Practical Ethics analyzes James Burke’s predictions for 2100.
- It’s impossible to say how living on Mars would effect humans.
- Elon Musk pushes back at the idea that Teslas are firetraps.
- Much time and money is being invested into anticipatory computing.
- How to discuss Brazil as it’s visited by the World Cup and the mass media.
- More and smaller cameras will keep being produced.
- One spoken word is recognized all around the world.
- Google invests $80 million in six solar farms.
- Apple is the driving force in North Carolina’s solar growth.
- A brief note from 1879 about a female husband.
- A brief note from 1894 about a masked man.
- A brief note from 1886 about a pitchfork accident.
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