This week, it became clear which dessert won’t be popular this Thanksgiving.
- Old Print Articles: Department store king John Wanamaker dies (1922) + Sylvia Beach speaks about Ulysses as its publishing in America for the first time (1933).
- Featured Videos: Marvin Minsky argues against accepted definitions of consciousness, in humans and machines + Asuna, the tween robot, is controlled remotely–for now.
- Recently Posted on NYC’s Craigslist: Whatever + Unless it’s a really nice graveyard.
- 10 recent Huffington Post headlines.
- Peggy Noonan wants young male Americans to toxify the country.
- Elizabeth Kolbert takes aim at environmentalist cowardice.
- Two years after Sandy, Barry Diller proposes a NYC island paradise.
- Zootopia in Denmark may be a remembrance of habitats lost.
- Steve Ballmer is going to profit hugely from corporate welfare.
- Corporate tax loopholes make Americans needy for CEO largesse.
- Michael Lewis thinks that mega-rich make for unhappiness.
- Income inequality is a glaring symbol of our problems.
- Robotics will reinvent the security industry.
- Andrew McAfee looks at Labor as automation permeates the workplace.
- Nicholas Carr is concerned that automation is making us dumb.
- Automation will cause some skill fade, even if we win in the bigger picture.
- If robocars become a reality, we may purchase miles as we do minutes.
- The Sharing Economy tries to end the airport-parking hassle.
- William Gibson has always existed in dual temporal realities.
- AC Grayling points out that we’re already sort of Transhumanist.
- PTSD and other traumas may be heritable. Can science end that?
- Immigration reform is a win for Obama and a Gordian know for the GOP.
- GoogleX moonshots might be the company’s best recruiting tool.
- Google and Stanford announced advances in AI pattern recognition.
- James Patterson believes reading is an endangered species.
- Some think that by 2030, the average travel speed will be 250mph.
- Uber’s mistakes are becoming frequent and embarrassing.
- Mexican governance is often a mix of corrupt pols and men with guns.
- A century ago, some were terrified of a mummy’s curse.
- Humans might be immortal someday. Some will choose not to be.
- Vivienne Westwood didn’t care about punk if it was apolitical.
- A note from 1912 about a famished lunatic.
- A brief note from 1910 about a winner.
- A brief note from 1910 about a pedestrian.
- This week’s Afflictor keyphrase searches.