Afflictor: Thinking that as former allies abandon Governor Christie, he still enjoys the loyal support of one key political operative.
- Old Print Article: Hunter Seth Kinman made odd chairs for Presidents (1857/85) + Mark Twain dies at 74 (1910) + Michigan sect members pummel one another (1893).
- Featured Videos: Pete Seeger in a film by Alan Lomax (1947), with Stephen Colbert (2012) and hosting a 1960s TV show + Wonderful short about Francis Ford Coppola making The Conversation + Fascinating look at the production of 2001: A Space Odyssey (1966) + Serge Gainsbourg and Brigitte Bardot singing an ode to comic strips (1967) + Short movie about Michel Siffre’s 1972 Texas cave experiment.
- Recently Posted On NYC’s Craigslist: Paralysis has never been so funny + It wouldn’t make The Expendables any worse + Would you like to win a Grammy next year?
- Steven Levy releases a 30-year-old Steve Jobs interview.
- Nina Munk takes aim at the work (and ego) of economist Jeffrey Sachs.
- The Information Age might ultimately confer wealth to workers.
- Human calculator Wim Klein was retired by the Computer Age.
- The drive to make everyone a coder is probably misguided.
- Michel Siffre has dived so deep inside of himself that time ceased.
- It’s hard to save or ruin the center-less Los Angeles.
- Peter Norvig and Stephen Wolfram discuss the technology in Her.
- Machines may eventually pair off and hook up.
- Traditional news has declined, but non-traditional kinds have exploded.
- Facebook is using algorithms to disseminate news.
- It’s never been easier to create and get designer drugs.
- A holodeck is coming so that we can amuse ourselves to death.
- Buckminster Fuller hoped to build a floating city but never did.
- Designer-baby technology will eventually be a reality.
- Lee Smolin says religion compromised physics from the start.
- A discussion of the science-fiction class MIT is about to offer.
- Will virtual intelligence ever be more than a figment of a real person?
- A genetic predisposition may guide the will to exercise.
- Simon Schama profiles Patti Smith.
- As Frank Rich points out, Fox News is bad for the GOP and not so popular.
- In 1994, Timex tried to popularize wearables with the Data Link watch.
- One particular Sony radio is popular in prisons.
- Some of Google’s “deep learning” will be guided by an ethics board.
- Older people’s brains may be too full to work as well as they used to.
- A brief note from 1896 about a riotous disorder.
- A brief note from 1912 about a masked golfer.
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