- Old Print Article: Mussolini orders newspapers to hail Julius Caesar (1933).
- Michael Lind traces the decline and fall of the modern American conservatism.
- White, middle-aged Americans seemed to be dying younger. Why?
- The two fastest growing occupations: Zumba instructor & personal trainer.
- Polls at this point in the Presidential race are pretty useless.
- Tom Stevenson looks at the state of illegal immigration in America.
- Garry Kasparov thinks Putin’s Russia is a mafia state.
- Calum Chace suggests titles on the topic of Artificial Intelligence.
- David Eagleman is asked if machines can become conscious.
- Cities will soon change markedly, but they won’t be utopias.
- Oliver Morton suggests combating climate change with geoengineering.
- Advances in science are forcing a reappraisal of eugenics.
- Vizio Smart TV’s are watching their watchers.
- Changes in technology and legislation is set to remake lending and borrowing.
- Solar power has become the fastest growing energy source in America.
- Tally robots are much better at inventory than human workers.
- Technological unemployment provides challenges beyond economics.
- Silicon Valley and D.C. view Guaranteed Basic Income differently.
- Finland may try Guaranteed Basic Income on a national scale.
- Writer Richard Grant discovered a rich home in the rural South.
- James Michener, not a graceful writer, was a dogged researcher.
- The U.S. is unilaterally making rules for space mining.
- A brief note from 1901 about living freight.
- A brief note from 1901 about a wild man.
- This week’s Afflictor keyphrase searches.