Afflictor: Thinking that even without the hat, it would have been fairly obvious.
- Old Print Articles: Dog catchers invite trouble (1894) + Teenager scalds cad with vitriol (1891).
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- The NFL won’t change until a player dies on the field.
- The Teapublicans and the modern Silent Majority.
- Economist Alex Tabrrok opines on the new blockbuster Contagion.
- How military drones will be used in American law enforcement.
- Michael Crichton worried about technology outpacing ethics in 1999.
- Samsung employs the “2001 Defense” in dispute with Apple.
- Is Europe’s future impossibly bleak?
- What robots can gain from having fingerprints.
- Jonah Lehrer explains that the mind is not just located in the brain.
- An excerpt from Thomas Kuhn’s Copernican Revolution.
- Experiments in operating computers with brains instead of hands.
- Paul Dano has already had a remarkable film career.
- Samantha Smith was perhaps the most famous Cold War child.
- How and when the :-) emoticon was born.
- This week’s Afflictor keyphrase searches.