Afflictor: Thinking Megyn Kelly will soon be calling police to report a heavyset, African-American male breaking and entering.
This is what I died for?
- Old Print Articles:Brother and sister unwittingly wed (1893) + Brooklyn girl skins and butchers horse for family dinner (1895).
- Featured Videos: George Saunders is interviewed by the New Yorker + Richard Hefner interviews Mike Wallace (1984) + James Baldwin explains what the N-word really means (1963) + The Valkyrie is a 6-foot-2-inch humanoid machine.
- Recently Posted On NYC’s Craigslist: Definitely robbery, perhaps murder + Cyber Monday at its finest.
- 1 thing about Jay Leno’s Obamacare jokes.
- No one in the world is being observed more closely than Edward Snowden.
- David Simon takes aim, angrily, at American income inequality.
- America’s super-rich are growing fearful, living in high-tech bunkers.
- Kevin Kelly did an Ask Me Anything at Reddit.
- The Healthcare.gov rollout was a mess, just as Twitter was initially.
- Glenn Greenwald wants people to be private and governments transparent.
- Robots may eventually need a bill of rights.
- Andy Greenwald dissects the British anthology series, Black Mirror.
- Experiencing life through a camera changes memory’s function.
- Bankruptcy lawyer Kevyn D. Orr must somehow save Detroit.
- South Africa’s needs have shifted in the post-Mandela era.
- Drones aren’t the only way the shipping business will change.
- Political and legal obstacles will most impede delivery drones.
- David Remnick explains his role for the Moscow Olympics coverage.
- Businessweek offers ways to end global income inequality.
- Telemarketing robots might be pretending to be human.
- Pilotless planes are a real possibility.
- The Darknet is far larger than the World Wide Web.
- Paper might, perhaps, make a comeback because of surveillance.
- An analysis of a parent’s moral role in a child playing contact sports.
- A brief note from 1898 about a blessed event.
- A brief note from 1909 about a human sacrifice.
- This week’s Afflictor keyphrase searches.