Afflictor: Thinking Black Friday was a scary day when shoppers fought over expensive cameras and such.
Happy holidays, you toxic queens.
- Lee Harvey Oswald likely acted alone when assassinating JFK.
- Old Print Articles:Cemeteries plundered, corpses kidnapped (1888).
- Featured Videos: Dr. Jonas Salk interviewed by James Day (1974) + Author Katherine Anne Porter speaks to James Day (1974) + Tiny jellyfish-shaped robots can drift in the air.
- Recently Posted on NYC’s Craigslist: Let’s face it, the sex is going to be unprotected + If you eat our mud, you’ll have twins.
- Marc Andreessen discusses our epoch of creative destruction.
- Economist Joel Mokyr believes we’re mismeasuring innovation.
- Computer superiority hasn’t ended chess but improved it.
- Richard Dawkins did an Ask Me Anything at Reddit.
- Tesla Motors batteries are aiding solar-energy systems for homes.
- The billionaire Lerner family should stop asking for corporate welfare.
- Jony Ive designs seamless products, is a tough biographical subject.
- Françoise Mouly recalls bringing R. Crumb into the New Yorker fold.
- Jonathan Franzen and others reveal their favorite 2013 books.
- Parents are starting to keep their children from playing youth football.
- Bowie-covering astronaut Chris Hadfield worries about Spaceship Earth.
- Japan wants to build a solar farm on the moon.
- Television has never been so celebrated or reviled.
- For 35 years, a librarian obsessively recorded news on VHS tapes.
- In the 1930s, international air travel was very different.
- Freeports allow the wealthy a tax-free haven for luxury purposes.
- A brief note from 1895 about a friendly grocer.
- A brief note from 1914 about a wooden leg.
- This week’s Afflictor keyphrase searches.