This week, Donald Trump attended a prayer breakfast to inform the congregants about the number and size of his balls.
- James Poniewozik writes of Trump, who dreams of a long and thick Presidency.
- A mix of Mussolini and Mayor McCheese, Trump has shot to the top of the GOP.
- The NYT political reporter Maggie Haberman conducted a Super Tuesday AMA.
- Doug Coupland fondly recalls the food courts and fake trees of the 1990s mall.
- Transhumanist politician Zoltan Istvan visited the Church of Perpetual Life.
- Before we become a driverless world, old and new ways will share the road.
- Stephen Wolfram considers what role we’ll play as machines get smarter.
- Is it possible to create a computational model of history?
- Thomas Nagel argues drones have made warfare more, not less, personal.
- We have things 1916 billionaires didn’t have, but wealth inequality is still bad.
- A new Deloitte report makes forecasts about global cities and wealth inequality.
- The growing singles population may actually be good for society.
- E.O. Wilson explains his “Half-Earth” proposal for protecting biodiversity.
- Brian Clegg wonders why we stopped dreaming about “settling” the moon.
- Former ESA director Jean-Jacques Dordain thinks space colonization unlikely.
- A Conversation piece explains how mere earthlings might colonize space.
- 3D printers can deliver the “strength of metal for the cost of plastics.”
- Physicist Wesley Clark led the team that built the first personal computer.
- Old Print Article: Sculptor to build “perfect city” in Mussolini’s Italy. (1927)
- Old Print Article: Pedestrian race wows Madison Square Garden. (1882)
- A brief note from 1856 about pig drivers.
- A brief note from 1928 about a mummified gift.
- This week’s Afflictor keyphrase searches.