This week, the Supreme Court took another step toward realizing its vision of America.
- Old Print Articles: Flying cars coming soon to your garage (1943) + Robot addresses Broadway audience (1929) + Photo finishes become reality at racetracks (1935).
- Featured Videos: A demo of a theremin on What’s My Line? (1962) + Vladimir Nabokov was a lepidopterist but not a pervert + Henry Miller interviewed on French TV.
- Recently Posted On NYC’s Craigslist: That plate you’re eating off of is diaper-clean + Did you also do nothing while someone was perhaps being murdered?
- In modern politics, winning the media war isn’t necessarily winning.
- The U.S. Christian separatist movement is the latest right-wing lunacy.
- Douglas Coupland updates his thoughts on McJobs.
- Income disparity and medical innovations may lead to radical lifespan divisions.
- Joseph Stiglitz explains how we went from World War II to 99 and 1.
- There was one hippie commune that did fairly well.
- In the 1970s, soccer also enjoyed a boom period in America.
- How the Dutch became an unlikely soccer powerhouse.
- Information wants to be free–as in unfettered.
- Democracy is not an ally of cheap gas.
- Ford wants to be a mobility company rather than a car company.
- Google and automakers might, perhaps, forge a valuable alliance.
- Google employee Diane von Furstenberg recalls the wrap dress.
- Facebook executed psychological experiments on unwitting users
- Sheryl Sandberg thinks Facebook’s failing was one of messaging, not ethics.
- Bud Selig changed the role of baseball commissioner, mostly for the worse.
- Hollywood director Paul Mazursky chronicled America at the crossroads.
- Monsanto is despised, even if high-tech farming is necessary.
- Physicists think we’ve past peak-philosophy.
- Converging factors are like to effect a sea change in higher education.
- The Associated Press is going to publish auto-written pieces.
- Print newspapers ared and dying in the U.S., except for ethnic ones.
- In the 1950s, AT&T introduced its first answering machine.
- Jacqueline Kennedy wanted her style to be adored, not popularized.
- A cryonics ambulance driver tells all.
- A new volume of historical counterfactuals reimagines Waterloo.
- A brief note from 1910 about sane monkeys.
- A brief note from 1910 about economic stimulus.
- A brief note from 1910 about a final message.
- A brief note from 1910 about a true believer.
- This week’s Afflictor keyphrase searches.