This week, we watched as heavily armed men threatened to bring death to Americans.
It was the Ferguson police.
- Old Print Articles: Sifting through dumping grounds for treasure (1886) + Dinners in pill form popular in Indianapolis (1899).
- Featured Videos: Mike Tyson discusses boxing with David Brenner and Jake LaMotta (1986) + Robin Williams interviewed during the first blush of his success (1978) + Chester Gould, Dick Tracy creator, appears on To Tell the Truth (1965) + British roboticist Tony Sale takes “George” for a walk (1949).
- Recently Posted on NYC’s Craigslist: Ninja hasn’t heard of Tinder + Looking for an investor–and a cellmate + We’re searching for someone who’s a pervert and a gentleman.
- Warren Bennis, corporate leadership expert, loathed “job creators.”
- Uber for doctors was just a matter of time, and it’s arrived.
- Texas is betting big on Bitcoin.
- The Iraq War is rearing its ugly head again, now in Ferguson, Missouri.
- David Simon recalls the bright and dark sides of Robin Williams.
- The Pew Research Center looks at automation’s effect on labor.
- Harold Robbins did extensive research for the sex scenes he wrote.
- Expression of emotions seem to be inborn and universal.
- Someday, if we’re not all dead, we’ll be able to consume all we want.
- Nobody knows when we’ll be able to supercharge human brains.
- Some think we can control information in the Digital Age. Won’t happen.
- It’s not likely we’ll predict the next pandemic.
- There likely is a second leaker on the Snowden level.
- “Smarter sentencing” is great, provided you’re not poor or a minority.
- Newspapers aim to remake themselves as Buzzfeed or some other bullshit.
- Fast-food restaurants will likely become highly automated.
- In 1993, the first online purchase was a Sting CD.
- San Francisco has golf courses but not population density.
- Driverless-car developers are trying to head off hackers.
- Lauren Bacall, that wonderful, had a rich and fascinating life.
- Jane Arraf, Al Jazeera’s Iraq correspondent, did an AMA.
- You can have lots of sex in Iran, but please don’t talk about it.
- The Panama Canal Zone was a world all its own for Americans.
- The Internet of Things may be the most overhyped technology.
- A child can outreason a search engine, but that might not matter.
- Coco Chanel, a terrible, awful person, made really nice clothes.
- A brief note from 1898 about monkey stew.
- A brief note from 1885 about a headless chicken.
- A brief note from 1890 about lactose intolerance.
- This week’s Afflictor keyphrase searches.