This week a despised tyrant who invaded a foreign country was finally repelled, avoiding a global crisis.
No, not him.
Him.
- Old Print Articles: Transatlantic news travelled slowly, so a newspaper published clairvoyant’s “account” of a European prizefight (1860) + Last Civil War veteran retires from Army (1915).
- Featured Videos: Muhammad Ali and Rocky Marciano “fight” with the aid of a computer (1970) + Rod Serling demonstrates the home version of Pong on TV (1972) + Phil Rizzuto interrogates underwater explorer Jacques Cousteau (1955) + LBJ attends Billy Graham crusade in Houston (1965) + Dick Cavett is entertained by Little Richard (1970) and Jim Henson and the Muppets (1971).
- Recently Posted on NYC’s Craigslist: We will sue you for child support + The subway is fighting with my computer.
- Three 1997 NYT stories about the Garry Kasparov-Deep Blue battle.
- Michio Kaku did an Ask Me Anything about the future of the brain.
- Philip Roth analyzes the golden age of the American novel.
- Kitty Genovese was murdered, and New York City unfairly took the rap.
- In 1967, Cosmopolitan reported on the rise of female computer programmers.
- Molecular assemblers will do all the building, and then what will we do?
- Technology has made us ubiquitous but perhaps not transparent.
- Like many other workers in this era, Hollywood stars have been diminished.
- The Fuller Brush Man and the video-store clerk were done in by technology.
- Reintroducing parasites into humans is something we should be doing. Maybe.
- With driverless cars, will we give up just the wheel or also ownership?
- Typographer Mike Parker covered the planet in Helvetica.
- Room service is very expensive, produces almost no revenue.
- In his own way, new Apple CEO Tim Cook can be as withering as Steve Jobs.
- Major automakers are turning out hydrogen cars. Why now?
- The Economist analyzes the upswing in electric vehicles.
- As has been reported a lot lately, Google is experimenting with robotics.
- Eric Schmidt comments on totalitarian regimes and the Internet.
- Massively Open Online Courses are a great idea but not very successful so far.
- A brief note from 1895 about horse power.
- A brief note from 1856 about camels delivering mail.
- A brief note from 1874 about a pitiable sight.
- This week’s Afflictor keyphrase searches.