Highlights From Yet Another Week Of Afflictor

March 21, 2015 in Misc. | Permalink

This week, Vladimir Putin announced that he's invited Kim Jong-un to Russian next month, which makes them the second most evil duo in the world.

This week, Kim Jong-un was invited to Russia by Vladimir Putin, making them the second most evil duo in the world.

Old Print Article: Pioneering Austrian rocketeer Max Valier is killed in an accident (1930).

Featured Videos: Filmmaker and sculptor Theo Kamecke’s Apollo documentary is a moody and poetic work (1970) + The Maysles brothers profile Orson Welles in Spain (1966).

Recently Posted On NYC’s Craigslist: “Company” needs “focus group” + Tired yet horny.

10 recent Huffington Post headlines.

Race in America has a through line from Jim Crow to George Zimmerman.

In 1968, Oriana Fallaci squared off with Norman Mailer.

Even Chuck Barris didn’t know the whole world would become The Gong Show.

Homo sapiens has a limited lifespan, but human extinction has a bright side.

Robot Reich has joined the chorus for technological socialism.

Billionaire Libertarians want to live in the middle of the ocean. I vote “yes.”

We all have intellectual flaws, but not as many as conspiracists.

Tim Harford thinks Luddites may have had a point.

In America, Big Food finds itself out so step with current tastes.

Netanyahu survived, but that’s likely not a good thing for Israel.

In 1980, John Naisbitt knew information, not infrastructure, was the future.

In 1974, Alvin Toffler sensed the Industrial Revolution was over.

The Internet of Things may do a lot more than nudge our behavior.

Human drivers may have trouble getting insured if robocars are perfected.

Design legend Dieter Rams believes we have too much stuff.

Some academics love charter cities, though they rarely work.

Co-bots don’t want to completely eliminate human workers–for now.

We love futuristic tools yet fear the future. Why?

Roboticist Ryan Eustice argues that driverless cars have been oversold.

If we are liberated from work, will we be happier?

Philosopher John Gray doesn’t believe the world is less violent.

We haven’t started torturing robots yet. Congratulations, people!

Despite regulation changes, executions still stock organ banks in China.

Crocodiles are, after all, not living fossils.

The Monopoly board game was, appropriately, built on dubious business deals.

Mars One is something like Amway traveling across the Milky Way.

In 1980, MIT President Paul Edward Gray believed innovation was dead.

A brief note from 1929 about an only daughter.

A brief note from 1884 about a full stomach.

A brief note from 1944 about stolen blood.

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