This week, it became clear that a Trump Administration would mean big changes for the annual Easter Egg Roll on the White House lawn.
- Holger Stark analyzes the U.S. political season’s utter ugliness.
- Thomas Frank thinks trade, not racism, is driving Trump’s success. Unlikely.
- Donald Trump, that Stalin of steaks, knows nothing, but is he a Know Nothing?
- Trump loves Ronald Reagan only in retrospect.
- While in the White House, the Reagans relied heavily on astrology.
- DeepMind AI destroys Go champion Lee Se-dol. Demis Hassabis comments.
- Douglas Rushkoff wonders about our puzzling economic future.
- Shoshana Zuboff analyzes the rise of “Surveillance Capitalism.”
- Ray Kurzweil thinks nanobots will limit wealth inequality.
- Vivek Wadhwa explains why tech progress is overwhelming regulation.
- In an AMA, Bill Gates weighs in on Apple/FBI, terrorism & hoverboards.
- In 1974, OUI, a middling vagina periodical, profiled a tech-friendly guru.
- Oliver Stone is paranoid (of course) about his film Snowden.
- Farhad Manjoo and Eduardo Porter debate Guaranteed Basic Income.
- If workers can no longer afford to retire, what is the path forward?
- Michael Graziano suggests a better approach to studying consciousness.
- Beth Shapiro looks at the technical and ethical issues with de-extinction.
- Ashley Dawson (Extinction: A Radical History) discusses CRISPR.
- A look into London’s growing Artificial Intelligence scene.
- The totally automated General Store 2.0 arrives in Sweden.
- The Russians have renewed interest in nuclear-powered space exploration.
- Thomas Jefferson believed America’s natural world equal to Europe’s.
- Franco Moretti discusses the Digital Humanities, that mixed bag.
- In 1957, director Federico Fellini lived in NYC, frequently finding trouble.
- Old Print Article: Tsar Nicholas II assumes power. (1894)
- Old Print Article: Sonia Delaunay’s “Cubist” clothes. (1924)
- A brief note from 1883 about wax noses.
- A brief note from 1913 about lycanthropy.
- A brief note from 1930 about headshrinkers.
- This week’s Afflictor keyphrase searches.