This week, the truth emerged about Brian Williams’ supposedly dangerous interview with “Unibrow Terrorist” Syed Farhan Hussain.
- Old Print Article: Aldous Huxley’s A Brave New World is received well (1932).
- Featured Videos: Arthur C. Clarke knew the world would soon be interconnected, social and mobile (1976) + William S. Burroughs reads from his work on SNL (1981) + Transhumanist Party Presidential candidate Zoltan Istvan discusses the future of humans + Martine Rothblatt believes Mind Clones will be humanity’s biggest invention.
- Recently Posted on NYC’s Craigslist: A note to the class of 2015 + Everyone is being badmouthed online + So, the marriage is going well.
- The Super Bowl was a smash, but brain injuries aren’t going away.
- David Graeber sees something sinister buried in bureaucracy.
- Robert Reich thinks some are more equal than others in the Peer Economy.
- In South Korea, “performance eating” has become a phenomenon.
- In his Harvard days, Timothy Leary did LSD experiments on inmates.
- The Internet of Things really is about human augmentation.
- Andrew Offutt was the poet laureate of prurient printed matter.
- Margaret Atwood explains the nature of futuristic writing.
- Our idea of Labor is, perhaps, driven needlessly by moralism.
- Capitalists want to mine the moon for fuel.
- Japan has begun employing robots as bank tellers.
- China has shown capitalism can thrive without democracy.
- Brian Williams internalized a fiction and repeated it over and over. Why?
- Walter Pitts was a troubled runaway who became a scientific great.
- A Rental Economy is more flexible but has hidden costs.
- Carl Djerassi, father of the birth-control pill, changed society in many ways.
- Neil Hamburger is the anti-comedian American deserves.
- Embedding our current morality in machines will stunt progress.
- Robots may be dangerous, but so are we.
- Yeats’ muse, Maud Gonne, had sex in her infant’s grave.
- Google Translate, that impressive tool, still has a long way to go.
- Brian Eno looks at the brief, shining moment of the record industry.
- If the iWatch failed, what would it mean to Apple?
- Ambulance drones will probably become a reality.
- A brief note from 1894 about a last meal.
- A brief note from 1944 about a caveman.
- A brief note from 1900 about hopelessness.
- This week’s Afflictor keyphrase searches.