Afflictor: Thinking he shouldn't have tried to order a large Dr. Pepper in NYC.
- Did you attend the Lowbrow Reader Reader publication party?
- Old Print Articles: Warden buys prisoners lots of pies (1882) + Mind reader wants to be buried alive (1893) + Texas bullfight goes horribly wrong (1900).
- Featured Videos: A good Bucky Fuller doc (1974) + Orson Welles and Peter O’Toole discuss Hamlet (1963) + Inside Francesco Scavullo’s photo studio (1978) + Quantum Trapping could transform transportation + Early Video Disk players never caught on (1978) + Richard Feynman didn’t believe in computer science (1985) + The Sonora Desert is natural but somehow feels denatured (1978) + The early days of laser light shows (1977).
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- Craig Venter wants “smart bugs” to cure all human ills.
- Can China transition from fake Apple stores to authentic tech powerhouse?
- Jeet Heer examines Marshall McLuhan’s religious inspiration.
- Daniel Kahneman explains the difference between storytellers and logicians.
- Lit Motors has developed a self-balancing, enclosed, electric motorcycle.
- The end of death may ultimately be a Pyrrhic victory.
- No one has summed up our smart-stupid age better than Louis C.K.
- Headphones were invented by a Mormon supporter of polygamy.
- Joshua Foer analyzes people with unusual memory ability.
- Evgeny Morozov thinks terrorists might pass on cybercrime.
- The world needs to develop lots of ethical robots.
- The informal economy booms when the formal one busts.
- A building surveyor suddenly became unable to visualize things.
- Governor Cuomo attempts to dismantle NY’s prison-industrial complex.
- Adam Curtis explains the romantic appeal of Mad Men.
- The original 1960 NYT report about Norman Mailer stabbing his wife.
- Dan Ariely thinks that we’re all lying, scheming cheaters.
- MIT develops a needleless injection system.
- Reyner Banham was impressed by Silicon Valley buildings.
- People often sacrifice principles while fighting for principles.
- Constant MLB games on cable TV doesn’t hurt baseball attendance.
- A brief note from 1897 about a snoring drunkard.
- A brief note from 1898 about a thieving horse.
- Afflictor Nation: Russia rules in May.
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