This week, Mike Huckabee confirmed that he’s considering a running mate who can reach out to young people.
- Old Print Articles: Bat Masterson dies a NYC newspaperman (1921) + Charles R. Knight, creator of prehistoric art, is visited in his studio (1927) + Mountaineer Annie Smith Peck reaches her career peek (1903).
- Recently Posted on NYC’s Craigslist: That last shred of human decency is now officially gone.
- Reports on the DARPA Robotics challenge from John Markoff + Matt Novak + The Economist.
- The elephantine field of GOP hopefuls is measured by The Economist + Chris Lehmann.
- Uber is great for a lot of things, but Labor is not one of them.
- MIT’s Andrew McAfee and David Autor debate technological unemployment.
- Martin Ford believes China may lead the world in technological unemployment.
- Michael Tennesen says humans living in space would become a new species.
- A race for incredible wealth could launch Manifest Destiny into space.
- Tim Urban conducted an excellent interview with Martian hopeful Elon Musk.
- Michael Crichton dreamed on science and technology and found nightmares.
- In 1982, the first artificial-heart transplant upset many poetic souls.
- Shifting public opinion has made the GOP restrained about Caitlyn Jenner.
- Zoltan Istvan thinks life extension won’t cause overpopulation.
- Sir Tony Atkinson’s new book about inequality is measured against Piketty.
- Wearables at work are, for now, optional.
- Noah Smith wants Japan to eliminate its bullshit jobs.
- Japan is extraordinarily comfortable with robots.
- Douglas Coupland on the old-fashioned voting booth in the Digital Age.
- Sebastian Thrun would like Udacity to double the world’s GDP. Uh, wow.
- In the NYRB, Michael Massing surveys the new digital journalism.
- Astronauts are “traveling to Mars” in the Utah desert.
- Neil deGrasse Tyson considers the intersection of art and science.
- The Asch Experiments may not have proved utter conformity, but still.
- In his dotage, Marlon Brando instructed a mishegoss acting class.
- Google hired Dan Doctoroff to head its urban-improvement initiative.
- China’s Zhang Yue wants to the world dotted with modular buildings.
- Mercedes-Benz futurist Eric Larsen considers the car of tomorrow.
- The technology needed to automate trucking is already here.
- When jockey Steve Cauthen was 16, he was already a sports superstar.
- We idealize youth to avoid uncomfortable truths.
- Private funds are flooding into anti-aging research.
- Neuroscientist Suzanne O’Sullivan writes about imaginary illnesses.
- Not every shopping center will become a ghost mall.
- Sans chemical enhancers, junk food would taste disgusting.
- A brief note from 1902 about a blown nose.
- A brief note from 1926 about a vengeful act.
- A brief note from 1934 about a quiet man.
- This week’s Afflictor keyphrase searches.