This Thanksgiving, it was heartening to see one bird escape the turkey farm and make it to the safety of the highway.
Oh, no…TRUCK!!!
- Old Print Article: Film star Lon Chaney passes away (1930).
- Recently Posted on NYC’s Craigslist: Are you the Hannibal Lecter of torts? + I draw the line at rotting corpses.
- Al Michaels has baffling reasoning for supporting the Redskins’ racist name.
- Molly Lambert brilliantly dissects the misogyny of modern music.
- It’s hard to believe Darren Wilson’s story. Really, really hard to believe.
- In a Reddit AMA, Keir Dullea recalls working on 2001: A Space Odyssey.
- Ridesharing has begun to markedly reduce taxi-medallion values.
- There’s a simple reason why Uber plays so rough.
- Uber is offering military vets a dubious career.
- Autonomous vehicles will have residual effects beyond enhanced safety.
- Driverless cars need to be programmed for greater aggression.
- Nike and Foxconn are striving to be free of human labor.
- Siri is just the beginning of digital assistants.
- Some are dubious that we’ll ever be able to colonize other stars.
- Two teams of scientists lay claim to discovering an Earth-ish exoplanet.
- Baseball’s “father” Alexander Cartwright likely shouldn’t be in the Hall of Fame.
- Steven Levy reminds of the importance of the MIT’s Tech Model Railroad Club.
- Baidu research chief Andrew Ng discusses driverless cars and deep learning.
- Vladimir Putin is wrecking the Russian economy and enriching himself.
- Avoiding a nuclear Iran is not impossible but complicated.
- NYC’s Strand has flourished in a post-bookstore landscape.
- A brief note from 1889 about a turkey head.
- A brief note from 1910 about lucky chicks.
- This week’s Afflictor keyphrase searches.