This week, Rick Perry announced he’s running for President to improve the economy, fight terrorism, and, most importantly, to…
- Old Print Articles: New York man plans to fly to moon in own rocket (1930) + The Dust Bowl storms, a year after the first wave began (1935).
- Recently Posted on NYC’s Craigslist: President Obama has really stopped caring + I’m having trouble finding lowlifes in New York.
- Featured Videos: Truman Capote profiled as In Cold Blood in published (1966) + A demo of the robotic sparring partner Der Boxroboter (1980s).
- 10 recent Huffington Post headlines: granny panties, sex-toy mishaps, etc.
- Bill Simmons’ run at ESPN is a great example of the ascendancy of the fan.
- Population Bomb author Paul Ehrlich certainly got the details wrong.
- Transhumanist Zoltan Istvan advocates AI replacing the U.S. President.
- Rand Paul is trying to woo left-leaning technologists.
- Journalist Chris Hedges thinks revolution is in the air in America.
- Thomas Piketty reviews Sir Tony Atkinson’s book about wealth inequality.
- Mattathias Schwartz of the New Yorker did an AMA about Edward Snowden.
- Former Apple CEO John Sculley is often portrayed reductively.
- Dr. Pat Brown wants to put the meat industry out to pasture.
- Christopher Mims writes about the Uberization of the sales force.
- Amazon hosted an AI challenge to see if factory pickers could be replaced.
- Robots are becoming more agile, can take on more work.
- Some jobs are very prone to robotization. Umpires beware.
- Members of the DARPA Robotics Challenge teams conducted an AMA.
- In the future, perhaps there will be almost no private cars in cities.
- Ray Kurzweil believes our brains will soon be connected to the cloud.
- Google doesn’t believe semi-autonomous vehicles are workable.
- Making a ghost gun is shockingly easy.
- It’s time to debate the presence of Lethal Automatic Weapons Systems.
- In the future, household pets might be robotic or virtual.
- Contact lenses offering telescopic vision are nearly upon us.
- Cliven Bundy is visited by the Guardian, a year after the armed standoff.
- It’s tough to say if we’ll ever live in a world without dictators.
- Incredibly wealthy multinationals want to quash carbon-free energy.
- Jeff Jarvis is peeved by technophobic art.
- Socialism might be, perhaps, having a rare moment in America.
- Grace Paley may be the most underrated great American short-story writer.
- A brief note from 1888 about the mummy trade.
- A brief note from 1935 about an “ape man.”
- A brief note from 1906 about a long walk.
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