This week, U.S. nurses announced they are unprepared to handle Ebola patients and…
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- Old Print Articles: David Lasser believes rockets can travel to the moon (1931) + F. Scott Fitzgerald is a big misogynist (1924) + The price of a human skeleton in Kansas City (1902).
- Featured Videos: Timothy Leary and Dr. Jerry Lettvin debate LSD at MIT (1967) + “Year: 1999 A.D” imagined a technotopia, got some things right (1967) + Joe Garagiola hosts baseball bubble-gum blowing competition (1975).
- Recently Posted on NYC’s Craigslist: I am too lazy to take my cat-pee couch down to the trash + You too, Selena + The punch bowl ladles are shaped like penises.
- Elon Musk takes writer Ross Andersen on a mission to Mars.
- Some scientists and philosophers are focusing on existential risks.
- Homo sapiens will likely be just one kind of human in the future.
- South Korea smart city Songdo is now partially realized.
- Movies will eventually be released on all screens. Even awful ones.
- Ray Kurzweil and MIT economist Andrew McAfee debate the “end of work.”
- Roboticist Hod Lipson wants to create self-aware AI.
- Peter Thiel thinks the world is technophobic.
- The Technological Age has been good for consumers but not workers.
- Los Angeles is fully embracing driverless cars.
- Building a technotopia in downtown Las Vegas has proven difficult.
- Steven Pinker thinks he knows why most writing is so bad.
- Jeff Bezos hasn’t yet begun reinventing the Washington Post.
- Bayesian statistics isn’t a sure thing but a surer one.
- The Gutenberg printing press had unintended consequences.
- The phone call is being reimagined for today’s endless media stream.
- Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the current Supreme Court’s worst decisions.
- Are dreams the brain’s equivalent of a computer’s inspection of its programs?
- Drug addiction is hopeless, but only for a small minority.
- Elon Musk says 2015 Teslas will have 90% autopilot capacity.
- No one can no precisely how automation will effect Labor.
- The Industrial Revolution may have been the impetus for nation-states.
- Tiny robots will reduce surgical trauma.
- The global building boom has disappeared some beaches.
- A prognostication for rail travel in 2050.
- Defense has allowed star-less baseball teams to thrive.
- A note from 1910 about alternative medicine.
- A brief note from 1911 about a loving wife.
- A brief note from 1910 about keen rivals.
- This week’s Afflictor keyphrase searches.