This week, Jim Carrey defended his insane anti-vaccination theories, saying he got his information from a highly trained medical professional.
- Old Print Articles: Mollie Fancher celebrates 50 years of being a bed-ridden clairvoyant (1916) + Robert Louis Stevenson dies on the Samoan Islands (1894).
- Recently posted on NYC’s Craigslist: My best guess is Dr. Phil or Hulk Hogan + The new Adam Sandler film is in pre-production.
- Claire Cain Miller argues against popular Silicon Valley cliches.
- Christopher Mims explains why this Internet bubble is different.
- Publishing on Facebook might, perhaps, be good for the New York Times.
- Mark Zuckerberg did an Ask Me Anything at Facebook.
- IBM and Google claim they’ve made progress with quantum computing.
- Dan Falk wonders whether Homo sapiens simply had to come to pass.
- Algorithms should obviate gerrymandering.
- Silicon Valley’s immigrant push may have dodgy motives.
- Zbigniew Brzezinski believes Russian and the U.S. are in a Cold War.
- Utrecht is experimenting with universal basic income.
- Regardless of machine progress, humans won’t become horses.
- A “citizen salary” might be a remedy to technological unemployment.
- Johannes Koponen suggests we need to own less stuff.
- Dubai is building a small office building with a 3D printer.
- Ian Leslie compares data analysis and human intuition.
- Ants can help us better assimilate the Information Age’s flood of data.
- Literary terror Scott Peck has published a new memoir.
- In the 1970s, the DataMagic Bowling Computer declared war on the pencil.
- The Happiness Industry wants to monitor and modify moods.
- The Financial Times presents its summer books list.
- A brief note from 1954 about a technophobe named Ray Bradbury.
- A brief note from 1910 about a true believer.
- This week’s Afflictor keyphrase searches.