Pepsi just acknowledged it secretly tested Doritos-flavored Mountain Dew on unwitting subjects, which counts as the second most unpleasant meal of the week.
- Old Print Articles: Mail will someday be delivered to houses by pneumatic tubes (1931) + Orville Wright passes away at 76 (1948).
- Featured Videos: Artist Francis Bacon sits for a long-form interview (1966) + A new smart cruise ship has bionic bartenders + A peek inside Canada’s automated office of the future (1976).
- Recently Posted on NYC’s Craigslist: This is what I sound like before I get baked + I think I’m happily married + I have very specific needs.
- What’s the matter with Kansas? Maybe Kansans.
- States that most benefited from Obamacare voted for its opponents.
- Eric Show might have been baseball’s most unusual personality.
- While you watch your TV, your TV watches you.
- Facebook did another “social experiment” on their users.
- The spoils will go the victors of the second machine age.
- Uber is having a huge impact on the Los Angeles autopocalypse.
- Tim Berners-Lee discusses the future of Artificial Intelligence.
- Sue Halpern writes of the dark side of the Internet of Things.
- Czechoslovakian crypto-anarchists opened a Bitcoin-only cafe.
- Fears about technological unemployment may or may not be exaggerated.
- Cyberjacking an airplane isn’t easy but is possible.
- Stewart Brand responds to concerns about de-extinction.
- Michael Crichton was an early adopter of personal computing.
- The transition to driverless cars will likely be incremental.
- Strongman Andrew Palmer is a software engineer with super power.
- The Multiverse may be real but is difficult to prove.
- Originality is great, but copying makes progress possible.
- Space tourism has some merit–and great danger.
- Perhaps people in the future will read books mostly on phones.
- The United States uses less water than it did 45 years ago.
- Some fear that Elon Musk may be causing a technopanic.
- Sooner or later, 3-D-printed guns will be perfected.
- 1,000 young French citizens have joined ISIS.
- 75 great writers inscribe their works with new annotations.
- In Iran, globalization might overcome puritanism.
- A serial killer’s daughter writes of her painful upbringing.
- Douglas Coupland still believes in the Segway.
- Los Angeles documentarian Thom Andersen says nice things about NYC.
- George Whitman made his Parisian bookstore a literary temple.
- Garry Trudeau recalls the young Dubya at Yale.
- A brief note from 1932 about Lincoln’s last travels.
- A brief note from 1871 about stolen teeth.
- A brief note from 1899 about a temporary home.
- This week’s Afflictor keyphrase searches.