This week, Vladimir Putin banned all Western food imports.
But Russians should still save room for a delicious dinner…
…and dessert.
- Old Print Articles: Department stores with robot salesmen planned to open (1929) + Double-jointed sideshow performer sells skeleton to medical researchers (1890) + A baby farm sees a deal go bad (1891).
- Featured Videos: IBM commercial predicts wearable computing (1997) + There was a time when serious writers, including John Updike, worried about becoming too popular (1982).
- Recently Posted on NYC’s Craigslist: Or Donald Rumsfeld. Either one. + Play a prank and get your dog to stop eating his own stools + Typical investment banker.
- Libertarians might be having a moment, or some such thing.
- Syd Mead predicts the future of transportation in a post-driver world.
- Ebola expert Richard Preston discusses the virus.
- President Obama challenges China, dismisses Russia.
- Bioengineering is probably necessary, but there are perils.
- Luc Sante explains why cities don’t interest him now.
- Native advertising is maddening, but it’s nothing new.
- Paparazzi are a scourge of the famous, or their collaborators.
- Matt Yglesias calls for the end of time zones.
- We’ve been to space, but we don’t really know where it begins.
- High school and college football programs may rapidly decline.
- Robocars would change dense urban areas.
- Electric Vehicles may be nearing a tipping point.
- For a plugged-in reporter, Glenn Greenwald lives in a lo-fi lair.
- Douglas Coupland failed to capitalize on the Starbucks boom.
- Elon Musk is worried about the specter of superintelligence.
- Forty years after Nixon’s resignation, a 1977 interview resurfaces.
- A deeper look at Pierre Boulle’s Planet of the Apes.
- War is not a game, although we often treat it as such.
- Just found: the cremated remains of nine Jonestown victims.
- Tech companies are as dependent on water as cola companies.
- Bill Keller surveys the contemporary media landscape.
- Doomsday scenarios for Earthlings include solar flares.
- Exoskeletons give dockworkers ginormous strength.
- A brief note from 1902 about the medical system.
- A brief note from 1911 about a crossed line.
- A brief note from 1883 about a cow puncher.
- A brief note from 1891 about a novel surgery.
- This week’s Afflictor keyphrase searches.