- Old Print Articles: Rudolph Valentino is not permitted to rest in peace (1926) + Swapping wives in New Jersey during WWII (1942).
- Featured Videos: Evel Knievel visits Johnny Carson (1973) and makes a ludicrous TV drama pilot (1970s) + 3 interviews with sex-change pioneer Christine Jorgensen (1950s-80s) + Willie Mays says hey to Merv Griffin and Tallulah Bankhead (1966) + Orson Welles narrated the cockamamie Late, Great Planet Earth (1979) + Commercial for a Texas Instruments Spell-Checker (1989).
- Recently Posted on NYC’s Craigslist: I’m also leasing a frog with an option to buy + Probably won’t work if you’re not a moaner + Film noir in the computer age.
- Red Sox owner John Henry has brought finance thinking to baseball.
- The Pelican imprint is being revived with some exciting, new titles.
- Thomas Piketty believes the relative postwar equality was an exception.
- Financial reporter Jesse Eisinger did an Ask Me Anything at Reddit.
- Economist Ha-Joon Chang prefers technological innovation to natural resources.
- Google wants autonomous city driving and robot butlers.
- Circus freak shows have been replaced by reality television.
- For better or worse, Wally Olins turned branding into a thing.
- Synthetic biology is definitely coming. What will it change?
- SI reported on Deep Blue very differently in 1996 and 1997.
- A Libertarian utopia might, perhaps, bloom in New Hampshire.
- E.O. Wilson thinks humanity might be suicidal.
- William James hosted nitrous oxide parties at Harvard.
- Will Self eulogizes the novel.
- Larry King did an Ask Me Anything at Reddit.
- Qataris are fabulously rich as well as overweight and unhappy.
- Al Feldstein, who just passed away, edited Mad in its glory years
- A non-believer argues against the nature of New Atheism.
- Men with pencils and pads take down Kim Jong-un’s every word.
- Giant 3D printers in China can build 10 houses in a day.
- Robotic rodents may help explain polymorphism.
- A brief note from 1910 about a weary stork
- A brief note from 1910 about a stubborn mule.
- A brief note from 1921 about a romance.
- A brief note from 1911 about an exhibition.
- This week’s Afflictor keyphrase searches.