This week David Letterman was forced from power by a surprising aggressor.
For Stupid Pet Trick, I now murder tiger.
I love that guy.
- Old Print Articles: A stranger visits Aaron Burr’s deathbed (1895) + The odd journey of Joseph Faber’s Talking Machine (1870-1887).
- Featured Videos: Anthony Burgess interviewed four years before his death (1989) + Two years before becoming leader of the free world, Jimmy Carter was anonymous on What’s My Line? (1974) + Sir Alec Guinness discusses Star Wars (1977) + Walter Cronkite reports on underground filmmaking in NYC (1965) + Alistair Cooke brings a camera into the New York Times newsroom (1954) + Pioneering voice-recognition work at Stanford (1968) + Dr. Barbie and Dr. Ken are guilty of malpractice and extreme beauty + Walter Cronkite interviews Anwar Sadat with the pyramids as a backdrop (1977).
- Recently Posted on NYC’s Craigslist: I can help you get arrested in seconds + I have the most adorable fetish ever + If you’re my type, I feel bad for you.
- Gas stations and fast-food restaurants may be our Easter Island totems.
- Augmented reality will eventually inform sports.
- Elon Musk has good news and bad news about near-term driverless cars.
- Like it or not, the Internet of Things will quantify everything and everyone.
- Stephen King recalls creating Carrie forty years after its publication.
- Catching up with couples married in Rev. Moon’s mass 1982 wedding.
- Psychiatrist Immanuel Velikovsky turned into a catastrophist crank.
- In 1997, Roger Ebert interviewed Arthur C. Clarke.
- Cliodynamics pioneer Peter Turchin examines Russia’s current aggression.
- George Soros also looks at Putin’s bizarre gambit.
- Climate change will severely impact biodiversity.
- China searches for extreme relief from its air-pollution problems.
- DARPA aims to bioengineer new life forms.
- More and more, humans will outsource moral quandaries to machines.
- Automation will solve many problems, create others.
- Tyler Cowen and Peter Singer talk immigration as a poverty-fighting tool.
- Economist Dan Ariely did an AMA about irrationality and lying.
- The late songwriter Vic Chestnutt couldn’t get health insurance.
- Dr. Paul Ekman pioneered the study of facial expressions.
- A panel looks at the impact of race in modern sports media.
- Giving alcohol to alcoholics is counterintuitive but sometimes works.
- A look at the history of Gmail, that mixed blessing.
- Artist Susan Kare discusses creating Apple’s early screen icons.
- Ken Jennings reveals what makes for a Jeopardy! champion.
- Monkeys with typewriters would outdo Shakespeare.
- A brief note from 1892 about a monkey dinner guest.
- A brief note from 1903 about a corseted woman.
- A brief note from 1895 about an elopement.
- This week’s Afflictor keyphrase searches.