This week, William and Kate had a daughter, who was immediately introduced to her wet nurse.
- Old Print Articles: The Autogiro flying car is tested as its inventor dies (1936) + Orson Welles hires circus strongman to operate camera (1942).
- Featured Videos: Inchworm-ish robots that can haul 100 times their weight + DARPA just made it easier to kill with “guided bullets.”
- Recently Posted on NYC’s Craigslist: Perhaps Oprah will buy me a new mattress + It will be the last meal you ever eat + Steve Kroft is working on a story.
- A 92-year-old Stuttgart woman did a fascinating AMA about Hitler.
- Desperate Chinese realtors “rent” white people to attract buyers.
- David Simon goes into depth over Baltimore’s race and class strife.
- Bitcoin has a growing “laboratory” in Argentina.
- The U.S. drone program is already automated, in a big-picture sense.
- Surge pricing may become uncomfortably personal.
- The failed American War on Drugs trails back to the end of Prohibition.
- Lawrence Weschler writes of the many lives of friend Oliver Sacks.
- Urban areas may have already experienced “peak car.”
- The Siri creators are now working on “Viv,” a “global brain.”
- Tesla home batteries are most important for their storage capacity.
- The new TVs are able to listen to and process your conversations.
- Transhumanist Party candidate Zoltan Istvan shares his futuristic platform.
- Andrew McAfee wonders if the new technologies are deflationary.
- Middle-skill work may be largely automated within decades.
- For better and worse, delivery drones will become ubiquitous.
- Drones will sometimes be misused, but the FAA shouldn’t cripple the industry.
- Solar might ultimately become the preeminent energy source.
- It probably doesn’t matter if we can prove a new epoch via geology.
- Hewlett-Packard is attempting to radically reimagine the computer.
- David Graeber writes that a necktie is a substitute penis.
- Marine Le Pen is trying to put a polished face on FN extremism.
- Vitali Klitschko’s plans for Kiev are challenged by civil war and corruption.
- We probably have widely accepted theories that are completely wrong.
- American colleges should not give preference to legacies.
- The next portable computers will be far smarter than us.
- IKEA predicts what the world will be like in 2025.
- CEOS will also have their security threatened by algorithms.
- A brief note from 1889 about a chicken nose.
- A brief note from 1900 about a last meal.
- A brief note from 188 about eating ants.
- This week’s Afflictor keyphrase searches.