Vogue editor Anna Winter made a splash with Kim Kardashian, but next month’s cover will be even better.
Tan Mom was considered.
So was Teen Mom.
But Casey Anthony eventually won out.
- Old Print Articles: Volunteer agrees to be rocketed to Mars (1920) + Bearded woman dies, keeps working sideshows (1862).
- Featured Videos: Mary McCarthy visits Jack Paar (1963) + Shri Guru Maharaj Ji tries to levitate the Houston Astrodome (1973) + Dr. Sherwin Nuland discusses animal experimentation with William F. Buckley (1990) + Thriller writer Robert Ludlum was upset by computers and governments encroaching on privacy (1982) + Great Race driving champion George Schuster appears on I’ve Got a Secret (1958).
- Recently Posted on NYC’s Craigslist: The carrots just don’t taste the same + C’mon people, a little creativity + At last, a rapper who can write about health and wellness.
- NYT Op-Ed writer Vladimir Putin violated a few of his own rules.
- Bill Gates looks at U.S. healthcare from a technocratic viewpoint.
- Gates also comments on the future of workplace automation.
- Billy Beane thinks baseball teams will eventually have IT coaches on the bench.
- When we slaughter animals in a humane way, we still slaughter animals.
- Giant armadillos may have been wiped out by climate or by humans.
- Larry Page says you can trust Google with your personal info. You cannot.
- Brain implants will treat illnesses, enhance performance.
- Chuck Barris couldn’t have predicted the sideshow would be mainstreamed.
- Stealth whisper campaigns need humans less than they did a decade ago.
- Eldridge Cleaver was both a Black Panther and the designer of Penis Pants.
- Sports stadiums could look very different in 20 years.
- Not too long ago, bowlers were paid better than NFL stars.
- Japan is a truly unique country. Why?
- Apple designer Jony Ive sits for a rare, long-form interview with Time.
- Bob Guccione was profiled in 2005, after his porn empire had collapsed.
- The Astrodome groundbreaking ceremony in 1962 involved handguns.
- Human driving could eventually be outlawed, but it likely won’t be.
- Chess champ Magnus Carlsen did an Ask Me Anything at Reddit.
- In the 1980s, some thought an interconnected world would end wars.
- David Brooks’ worship of so-called meritocracy is baloney.
- BBC correspondent Lyse Doucet, just returned from Iran, did an AMA.
- Audio recordings of Jeremy Bernstein’s 1966 Stanley Kubrick interview.
- In Renaissance Italy, prostitutes had to wear bells on their heads.
- Some humans now have lab-grown tracheas.
- Some corporations can probably be completely automated.
- A brief note from 1892 about a mound of skulls.
- A brief note from 1897 about girls in a pigpen.
- A brief note from 1885 about a petrified giant.
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