Afflictor: Thinking anything goes on Governor Christie’s lawless highway to hell.
- Old Print Articles: Bronson Alcott’s vegan commune comes undone (1915) + Some of the Donner Party’s buried treasure is recovered (1891) + A dime-museum attraction has metal implements removed from his belly (1900).
- Featured Videos: A tour of the then-futuristic offices of the Miami Herald (1961) + Radio-tube inventor Lee de Forest appears on This Is Your Life (1957) + A mathematician plays computer music on I’ve Got a Secret (1950s) + A demo of the UNIVAC’s weather-prediction abilities (1956) + The Eames’ gorgeous Polaroid SX-70 ad (1972) + JFK conspiracist Mark Lane interviewed by William F. Buckley (1966) + Scarface debuts in Miami (1983) + Woody Allen discusses Annie Hall, gets bussed by his interviewer (1977).
- Recently Posted on NYC’s Craigslist: A win-win situation in which everyone loses + And perhaps your niece can recover cufflinks from my cesspool + Natalie Portman not quite up to high standards of Craigslist posters.
- Love is often a simulation in the Digital Age.
- David Gelernter takes aim Ray Kurzweil and other technologists.
- The rise of the machines will change the economy, but how much?
- An algorithm can predict how popular your book will be, but not how good.
- RAND corporation scientist Debra Cohen explains the obesity epidemic.
- Personalization didn’t prove to be a long-term bonanza for Netflix.
- A peek inside the madness that is North Korea under Kim Jong-un.
- A look at the history of the Philip Roth-Primo Levi friendship.
- Seinfeld is still funny, but a different viewing experience, in 2014.
- The intractability of homelessness in the life of one American vet.
- USMC veteran Paul Szoldra still doesn’t know why we invaded Iraq.
- Naturalist David Attenborough did an Ask Me Anything at Reddit.
- Colony Collapse Disorder may (or may not) disrupt UK food production.
- Monsanto is experimenting with microbials as greener pesticides.
- Humanity will ultimately be wiped out. Should we be worried?
- P.W. Singer comments on the spectre of cyberwar.
- The world is now downloadable, so why leave home?
- Ahmed Kathrada, Nelson Mandela’s longtime prisonmate recalls his friend.
- Stanford thinks exposure to the arts will make for better apps.
- A brief note from 1873 about a wolf boy.
- A brief note from 1897 about risqué moving pictures.