Afflictor: Fearing the Earth might look slightly different after a Rick Perry Presidency.
- Old Print Articles: Inside a Brooklyn boxing establishment (1889) + Orangutan learns a simple trick (1889) + Guy kicked in head by horse escapes from hospital (1899).
- Classic Photographs; John Glenn accepts invitation from the future (1962).
- Featured Videos: Mesmerizing DeLorean doc (1981) + Lee Iacocca rallies America (1984) + Richard Pryor laughs at Milton Berle’s illegitimate child (1974) + David Frost interviews Geraldine Jones (1970) + Bill Gates predicts the future of mobile commerce (1995) + Johnny Cash on 60 Minutes (1982) + Total eclipse of the sun (1979) + K-Tel bottle-cutter kit commercial + Liz Taylor and Richard Burton enjoy bickering (1970) + Robot rides bicycle in Japan + Qaddafi profiled on 60 Minutes (2001).
- Recently Posted on NYC’s Craigslist: Gabriel Byrne has the laziest stalker in the world + Occupy Wall Street’s message grows even more diffuse + I am in denial over my weight gain + I thought I was getting laid, and then my raft was gone + My painted toenails are probably the least weird thing about me + Social Security checks funding orgies.
- Norman Mailer profiles fellow pugilist Mike Tyson in 1988.
- In 1968, Stanley Kubrick wondered what we might find on the moon.
- Recalling how Richard Dawkins coined the term “meme” in 1976.
- The agonizing evolution of the word “consumer.”
- Frank Rich analyzes class warfare in America.
- Milton Friedman defends sweatshops in 1972.
- Some Silicon Valley bigwigs send their kids to Luddite schools.
- Rick Perry is at least as bad as you thought, perhaps worse.
- How much is automation hurting the job market?
- Was the Antikythera Mechanism humankind’s first computer?
- Michael Weinreb explains why sports series are best-of-seven.
- Buckminster Fuller opines on social revolution in 1972.
- Jann Wenner recalls former employee Hunter S. Thompson.
- Swami Bhaktipada had an unusual life, to say the least.
- Preparing for the next wave of bioterrorism.
- How journalist Ron Rosebaum inspired Steve Jobs’ career.
- John McCarthy coined the term “Artificial Intelligence” in 1955.
- Internet irreverence is making waves in China.
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