- Old Print Articles: Baseball great Grover Cleveland Alexander is a dime-museum attraction (1939) + Transylvania grave robbers allegedly rescue prematurely buried woman (1932).
- Featured Videos: Steve Wozniak in a Datsun 280-ZX commercial (1979) + Hippies turn into Jesus Freaks (1972) + Robert the Robot tidies up the house (1956) + Joan Rivers did a Q&A with UCLA students (1972).
- Recently Posted on NYC’s Craigslist: I’m looking for the responsible coke dealer + I’m beginning to think I’m unpopular.
- Geoff Dyer analyzes Norman Mailer’s A Fire on the Moon as its republished.
- Grover Norquist wants the whole world to be Burning Man, for fuck’s sake.
- The celebrity nudes craziness said so much about the Internet–and us.
- Marc Maron talks to Jay Bakker about being the son of Jim and Tammy Faye.
- ISIS is a group of fugazi fundamentalists.
- Driverless cars still have serious obstacles to navigate.
- Germany has been road-testing autonomous cars for two decades.
- Delivery drones couldn’t be cost-effective under current FAA rules.
- Automation might bring about the end of capitalism.
- The Rental Economy was sparked by the Great Recession.
- The Sharing Economy is great for consumers, bad for workers.
- Watson has moved from providing known answers to the unknown.
- We probably need to redefine the meaning of “job.”
- Globalization has caused income inequality to rise within nations.
- The U.S. may regulate Uber eventually, but not until it’s won.
- Germany has just banned Uber.
- New York City finally nabbed its biggest marijuana dealer.
- Pre-cognitive policing is a thorny subject for our future.
- China is degrading Hong Kong’s status as a world financial center.
- Social media is being used to track the Ebola virus.
- Chuck Todd isn’t sure that President Obama is emotionally disengaged.
- The last surviving Hindenburg crew member just passed away.
- Štefan Klein has designed an honest-to-goodness flying car.
- In 1962, Bill Veeck had poor suggestions for speeding up baseball.
- Peter Thiel thinks we’ve lost our edge technologically.
- Photographs are only crude representations.
- We might be on the verge of a third computing revolution.
- It’s tricky for social scientists to do research online.
- Miranda July’s new app is both personal and impersonal.
- Aubrey de Grey thinks we’re on the cusp of forever, implants will be huge.
- Google’s life-extension plans seem to have grown more realistic.
- A brief note from 1911 about a bad meal.
- A brief note from 1910 about an older sister.
- A brief note from 1910 about a rare condition.
- This week’s Afflictor keyphrase searches.