Afflictor: Thinking there’s a reason why Congress went so easy on Jamie Dimon this week.
- Old Print Articles: John Wilkes Booth’s barber passes away (1900) + Man self-medicates hemorrhage with salt (1892).
- Featured Videos: Our descent into the un-Reality is about two decades old + J. Gordon Baethe underestimated how quickly we would reach the moon (1954) + George Carlin derides artificial language + Chuck Barris as a modern P.T. Barnum + The Unisphere is built in Queens (1964) + Srebrenica used to be a spa-centric tourist haven + Holographic airport ambassadors in action + Terry Moore explains why “x” represents the unknown.
- Recently Posted On NYC’s Craigslist: My apartment smells like a graveyard + I will not survive the next round of layoffs + Britney needs to get a restraining order + Delay selling your kidneys for another week or two.
- Hoaxer Alan Abel pretends to sell his kidneys during the 1990s.
- David Graeber explains why we still don’t have flying cars.
- A 1969 doc captures skier “Spider” Sabich a few years before his murder.
- At Olive Garden, sex and vomit are on the menu.
- Joseph Corn presents an alternative history of aviation.
- In 1938, Martin Tytell invented the coin-operated typewriter.
- Apple is further shifting its attention from laps and desks to pockets.
- The late philosopher Philippa Foot believed odd thoughts were useful.
- Read Judith Jarvis Thomson’s famous 1971 paper, “A Defense of Abortion.”
- Lebron James is the first Information Age sports superstar.
- Black Panther leader Eldridge Cleaver changed constantly during his life.
- China is planning to build the tallest edifice on Earth in just 90 days.
- Adrian Owen can communicate with patients in vegetative states.
- Novelist Michale Chabon hates dreams–hates them!
- New technologies will be implanted inside of humans.
- Physicists seem to have great derision for philosophers.
- Facebook’s voluminous data allows the social network to do social science.
- The late Ernest Callenbach offered five rules for remaking our society.
- Roboticists aim to take their creations from automatons to multi-taskers.
- Rough-terrain robots can climb up telephone poles.
- E.O. Wilson thinks humans are wired for war.
- In a 1962 essay, Robert Moses defended his auto-centric vision.
- Inexpensive drones might help innovators overcome info overload.
- Journalist Timothy Noah speaks to America’s income disparity.
- A brief note from 1896 about a hypnotized man.
- A brief note from 1894 about a woman with a fat, red face.
- A brief note from 1895 about a cruel dentist.
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