This week, the whole world was shocked by utter brutality…
…and rallied together to punish the aggressor.
No, not him.
This guy.
- Old Print Articles: Nikola Tesla dies alone in Manhattan (1943) + Leon Theremin wows New York City audience with namesake invention (1928) + Aggrieved man lives in wife’s tomb for seven years (1905).
- Featured Videos: Rona Barrett frightens horror directors John Carpenter, George Romero and Jeannot Szwarc (1981) + Dudley Moore, Peter Cook, Jonathan Miller and Allen Bennett visit What’s My Line? (1962) + Carson McCullers interviewed on a ship (1956) + A look at the dark eroticism of Helmut Newton (1989).
- Recently Posted on NYC’s Craigslist: Everything about this is illegal + My ancestors were freaks + Paula has always seemed sort of cool to me, despite what they say about her.
- Some seem to think brutal murderer Michael Alig is a fun celebrity.
- Extremist Senator Ted Cruz has been emboldened, not chastened.
- Samuel Beckett and Andre the Giant were friends. This changes everything.
- Journalist Scott Carney did an AMA about human-organ trafficking.
- Steven Rattner thinks robots will not wreck the job market. Perhaps.
- Robots probably aren’t as scary as the people who own them.
- Gawker has way more unique visitors than the New York Times.
- Nicholas Kristof seems a great guy, but is he a great journalist?
- Bill James favors a simple fix for exorbitant executive pay.
- The second machine age may mean greater wealth in fewer hands.
- Jack White was the last rock star of the Industrial Age.
- Ralph Nader doesn’t believe our culture is very participatory.
- The Great Melt can be slowed but not avoided.
- “Meth Face” might really exist or it might be clever propaganda.
- Melinda Gates discusses having wealth and spreading wealth.
- Larry Page thinks privacy concerns may have a chilling effect on creativity.
- Public and private space exploration both have their benefits.
- Philosopher John Searle tries not to think about animal rights.
- Kits will be sold that will give driverless capacity to pre-autonomous vehicles.
- Amazon may end up on the receiving end of an antitrust investigation.
- 3D printers are amazing, but people will use them to make guns.
- Small children can often regenerate severed fingertips.
- A NASA rocket was destroyed because of a simple typo.
- A network of hover cars probably won’t be the future of commuting.
- Technologists are trying (again) to turn the UK into a hub for robotics.
- Robots might be the jockeys of the future.
- For the time being, smarter homes just complicate simple things.
- A brief note from 1910 about a true believer.
- A brief note from 1910 about a long walk.
- A brief note from 1910 about sleepy people.
- A brief note from 1911 about new eyelids.
- This week’s Afflictor keyphrase searches.