This week, the Supreme Court began deliberating whether we’d return to our old healthcare system.
Welcome back, bitches. Percs are still $4 a pop.
- Old Print Articles: Mass raid on Arizona polygamists (1953) + Buckminster Fuller promotes his Dymaxion house (1932).
- Featured Videos: Leonard Nimoy uses his gravitas to creepy effect (1978) + Robotic butlers provide room service at Aloft Hotels.
- Recently Posted on NYC’s Craigslist: Last summer, I beat my gardener to death with a rake + Thanks a lot, Obamacare + Let’s get Ebola and machete wounds together.
- Yuval Noah Harari and Daniel Kahneman discuss the end of death.
- David Graeber and Andrew McAfee consider technological unemployment.
- Graeber argues that free markets actually create more bureaucracy.
- Thomas Schulz analyzes how Silicon Valley shapes our future.
- Zoltan Istvan thinks Strong AI is a pressing national-security issue.
- The upcoming DARPA Robotics Challenge will be cordless contest.
- Bioprinting organs would be a miracle, but some have more outré goals.
- Gene therapy could be used to eliminate disease or design babies.
- Suspended-animation techniques may help us stave off death.
- Director Neill Blomkamp is wary of the near-term future of robotics.
- Errol Morris has empathy for his subjects, even the serial murderers.
- Climate change may remake Manhattan in the manner of Venice.
- In 1966, Newsweek explained LSD to the masses.
- Wall Street Journal Middle East reporter Yaroslav Trofimov did an AMA.
- Terrorists understand Hollywood narrative nuance.
- Technology and stateless “nations” are radically redefining warfare.
- Nuclear war expert Herman Kahn coined the term “megadeath.”
- NASA contractor Dr. Al Globus predicts the future of space colonies.
- Matt Yglesias believes America is headed for Constitutional collapse.
- Joseph Nye believes America has a bright future.
- Abstract thinking may be behind the increase in IQ globally.
- Net Neutrality is a good thing, but it’s easy to see some negatives.
- God help us if the Daily Mail Online is the future of journalism.
- Head transplants are really not a good idea.
- Someday there could be a trillion-dollar company, if that matters.
- Cities will gradually–and silently–grow smarter.
- A terminally ill neuroscientist chose eternity–or something like it.
- Some believe robotics will create a net job gain.
- A brief note from 1867 about a retort.
- A brief note from 1911 about a talking dog.
- A brief note from 1886 about a curious girl.
- A brief note from 1934 about a quitter.
- This week’s Afflictor keyphrase searches.