This week, Fox News was actually right about something.
Rancher Cliven Bundy is reminiscent of our forefathers in one way.
We owned lots of slaves.
- Old Print Articles: One Collyer brother found dead, the other still missing (1947) + Thomas Edison’s talking pictures prove a (temporary) success + Heavyweight champ Jack Dempsey has part of his ear surgically attached to his nose (1924).
- Featured Videos: Great bull session between Marshall McLuhan and typographer Harley Parker (1967) + Honda introduces its third iteration of the Asimo robot + Novelist Jacqueline Susann is baited during an interview (1960s) + Professor Irwin Corey accepts Thomas Pynchon’s National Book Award (1973) + Evel Knievel makes his debut on Wide World of Sports (1967).
- Recently Posted on NYC’s Craigslist: Thanks to de Blasio’s liberal policies, NYC is a murder capital again + A career fallback option + Maybe check with Mick and Keith first + Girlfriend said “no” to the three-way.
- Vile ventriloquist act Otto and George has been laid to rest.
- Las Vegas lawns may eventually kill Sin City.
- Perhaps animals, like humans, should have legal recourse.
- A worm may soon live entirely inside a computer.
- Tyler Cowen is awed, yet disappointed, by Thomas Piketty’s bestseller.
- Michael Rockefeller’s mysterious disappearance still fascinates.
- Delivery robots might need different regulations than driverless cars.
- Jack Shafer believes no whistleblowers is more dangerous than whistleblowers.
- Life often lingers beneath the surface when humans are in a vegetative state.
- NPR Shanghai correspondent Frank Langfitt did an AMA about China.
- Nudging people’s behavior likely produces more good than bad.
- Cory Arcangel has uncovered a trove of Warhol computer art.
- Software that decides which inmates should be paroled.
- David J. Cord, analyst of Nokia’s collapse, did an AMA about all things mobile.
- There still may be a future for atomic-powered spacecraft.
- An argument that Alexis de Tocqueville was actually tech-savvy.
- Fixating on the apocalypse may be a way to avoid making hard decisions.
- Silicon Valley wants drones to spread the Internet to remote places.
- Perhaps we’ve finally figured out how to make it rain.
- A brief note from 1885 about a zoologist’s appetite.
- A brief note from 1925 about ugliness.
- A brief note from 1913 about a reunion.
- This week’s Afflictor keyphrase searches.