This week, the number of U.S. citizens who’ve died from the Ebola virus on American soil held steady.
- Old Print Articles: Mussolini was not so beloved at the end of his life (1945) + Vladimir Lenin’s brain sliced into thousands of pieces (1929) + Dinosaur eggs found by Americans for the first time (1923).
- Featured Videos: Theodore Rosak worried about the coming Information Age (1986) + Marshall McLuhan enjoyed a “Picnic in Space” (1967) + Elon Musk shares his aggressive timeline for driverless cars + A look at Finnish philosopher, technologist and electronic music pioneer Erkki Kurenniemi.
- Recently Posted on NYC’s Craigslist: Jerk has yard sale + Jerk has organ sale.
- You might soon be able to recharge your electric car pretty much anywhere.
- We’ll eventually be able to manipulate intelligence genetically.
- Genetic engineering will be a matter of national security.
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn would have likely supported Russia invading Ukraine.
- The Brezhnev and Putin regimes have a certain amount in common.
- Bill Gates reviews Thomas Piketty’s surprise bestseller.
- The GOP cares about public health suddenly during midterm elections.
- Driverless cars will be sold to consumers in numerous ways.
- Glenn Close grew up in a right-wing, anti-intellectual cult.
- Hollywood’s “middle class” has all but disappeared.
- The NFL wanted performers to pay to play at the Super Bowl.
- You can write an Amazon bestseller and make almost no money.
- Airbnb rentals may often be illegal, but the company is likely here to stay.
- The Sharing Economy is the Internet’s anarchic spirit unloosed offline.
- Nicholas Carr thinks we’ve designed a world intended for machines.
- Search engines may be making us dumber–or maybe not.
- Documentarian Eugene Jarecki measures Google and Wikileaks.
- Talented baseball GMs might currently be overvalued.
- Thom Andersen’s Los Angeles Pays Itself gets the attention it deserves.
- Adam Gopnik lovingly recalls the magic of the Montreal Expos.
- Wavy Gravy, Woodstock hippie, did an Ask Me Anything at Reddit.
- The first Danish astronaut considers the future of space travel.
- Humans might survive the Anthropocene, but it won’t be pretty.
- Having a black President didn’t lead to a post-racial America.
- Perhaps space tourism will encourage environmentalism on Earth.
- Psychologist Bruce Hood points out that even the secular are superstitious.
- Software and sensor suppliers may be the big winners in driverless cars.
- A brief note from 1906 about a shocking death.
- A brief note from 1934 about a tired mother.
- A brief note from 1911 about magic beans.
- This week’s Afflictor keyphrase searches.