When sad bigot Donald Rumsfeld said this week that a “trained ape” could do a better job at foreign policy than President Obama, he may have forgotten who his chief adviser was when he invaded Iraq for no reason, costing us the lives of 4,500 troops, a trillion dollars and killing perhaps a 100,000 Iraqis.
They have weapons of mass destruction.
- Old Print Articles: Floating hotel opens off Lower Manhattan (1901) + Faith healer Francis Schlatter keeps working after his death (1896-1901) + Longtime amnesiac recalls his identity (1911).
- Featured Videos: Ty Cobb appears on What’s My Line? (1955) + Mad magazine legend William M. Gaines guests on To Tell the Truth (1970) + Edward O. Thorp, co-inventor of the first wearable computer, stops by To Tell the Truth + Alan Abel pretends to be a tennis-playing sheik (1970s) + Brian Eno discusses Music for Airports + The AT&T Picturephone debuts (1970).
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- Humans and machines alike are becoming more and more quantified.
- Steven Pinker writes about Daniel Kahneman’s “Availability Heuristic.”
- NASA engineers designing next-generation spacesuits did an AMA.
- The FBI’s failing in Waco was in misunderstanding the Branch Davidians.
- Ageism is, unsurprisingly, rampant in Silicon Valley.
- Bill Gates believes that there will be no poor countries in 20 years.
- When a robocar crashes, someone or something will be sued.
- Elon Musk is further fireproofing Teslas, though they’re not so dangerous.
- Tim Harford analyzes behavioral economics and Big Data.
- Thieves want easily fenced items, not necessarily the most valuable ones.
- Whether we call it suspended animation or not, that’s what it is.
- More thoughts about the penal system in a time of radical life extension.
- Former NSA director Michael Hayden addresses the aftermath of Snowden.
- In Northern Europe of the Middle Ages, children were sent away to work.
- A patient had her skull replaced by a plastic one made by a 3-D printer.
- Our electronics will eventually be made from living organisms.
- A California rancher encourages innovation in the face of droughts.
- A brief note from 1870 about “Lulu Johnson.”
- A brief note from 1909 about revenge.
- This week’s Afflictor keyphrase searches.