This week marked the official start of the season of guys getting kicked in the nuts.
- Old Print Articles: The immediate aftermath of Isadora Duncan’s shocking death (1927) + Mussolini’s Air Minister creates a technocrat’s dream office (1933) + Felix Berol, “Man with 300,000 Facts in His Head” dies (1914).
- Featured Videos: Henry Miller’s final interview (1980) + Boeing had high hopes for the SST (1967) + Ski racers, including Spider Sabich, receive a dreamy documentary (1969) + Interview with the parents of the first test tube baby (1979) + Make a withdrawal at the world’s first celebrity sperm bank.
- Recently Posted on NYC’s Craigslist: The kid in the deli handles my wife’s prenatal care + Ours will be a slow recovery + There’s an extra five if you have a squirrel in your pants.
- The next vehicle will not be merely a driverless car.
- LSD and interspecies sex marked John Lilly’s 1960s dolphin experiments.
- Francis Ford Coppola will think movies will go “live.”
- Future space travel may be left mostly to private entrepreneurs.
- Edward Makuka Nkoloso believed Zambia was in the Space Race.
- Howard Hughes died for many reasons but likely not aspirin abuse.
- MIT’s Rodney Brooks believes robots won’t cause unemployment.
- Steven Pinker looks at writing from cultural and neurological angles.
- Microsoft and Amazon may have saved Seattle from steep decline.
- Elon Musk rescinds all of Tesla’s EV patents.
- Michael Wolff profiles the Guardian’s editor, Alan Rusbridger.
- We may still be able to halt the so-called Sixth Extinction.
- A look inside Google’s new robotics company Boston Dynamics.
- Robots will be safer drivers than humans, but by how much?
- Uber might, perhaps, decrease private-car ownership.
- Globalization has had a mixed effect on the World Cup.
- Some PEDs should perhaps be permitted in sports.
- The Internet of Things will go far beyond smart toothbrushes.
- Jack London built a futuristic piggery in California.
- A brief note from 1910 about a ranch-bred woman.
- A brief note from 1929 about huge robotic fireflies.
- A brief note from 1911 about a toothache.
- This week’s Afflictor keyphrase searches.