Afflictor: Thinking it's gotten too damn hot, since 2009.
- Strange, Small & Forgotten Film: The Intruder (1962)
- Old Print Articles: Doctors who are cocaine fiends (1889) + Ventriloquists causing trouble (1886) + Smallest dog in the world (1995).
- Classic Photographs: Railroad derailed by San Francisco earthquake (1906) + Inside the dead letter office (1922).
- Featured Videos: Tennessee Williams predicts nuclear holocaust + Two Bobby Riggs videos (1973) + Replicant child with flexible silicon skin + NASA space colonization (1970s) + Fidgety octopus salad + First solar battery (1956) + Jacque Fresco’s futurism + The collapse of the record industry (1979) + Ancient Japanese automata + Explaining life extension + Flying sphere robot can follow you + The great British heat wave (1976) + Chimpanzee with assault rifle + Japanese man living in Mexican airport.
- Recently Posted on NYC’s Craigslist: Guy keeps forgetting stuff at massage therapist’s office + Couple breaks up, Kristen Stewart sort of gets the blame + My golfing partner turned on me + I want the car that goes 400 mph + Woman of a certain age unloads + Foot fetishist, peeved.
- An Esquire John DeLorean profile from 1979.
- Oriana Fallaci recalls an unpleasant meeting with Muhammad Ali.
- New New Yorker profile about hedge fund eccentric Ray Dalio.
- Italian novelist Paolo Giordano goes to Disneyland.
- Elaine Kaufman had an usual pricing system at her restaurant.
- Tom Junod’s great 1994 GQ article, “The Abortionist.”
- UCLA builds a shrine to the Internet’s origins.
- Steve Jobs was cautious about the power of the Web in 1993.
- Marshall McLuhan turns 100.
- Horrifying defense of News Corp. by the Wall Street Journal.
- James Gleick celebrates the digitization of books.
- How long until nanobots are introduced into human bodies?
- Brief note about a woman who dressed like a man in 1860.
- This week’s Afflictor keyphrase searches.