Afflictor: Thinking that while two out of three ain’t bad, that other one really, really sucks.
- Thoughts about the final Presidential debate.
- I’ll help sick people if Donald Trump will blow a racehorse.
- Even more proof that Donald Trump is a complete moron.
- One thing about that chucklehead Piers Morgan.
- Old Print Article: Pennsylvania farmer John Walters ate 48,300 pies. (1901)
- Classic Photography: Carrie Nation, Hatchet At The Ready. (1901)
- Featured Videos: Mike Wallace investigates the tabloidization of local news (1973) + TV spot for “portable,” 22-pound Compaq computer (1984) + A brainwave-sensing headband + Australian TV report on Bob Marley (1979) + Bryant Gumbel interviews John Updike (1982) + Werner Herzog discusses the making of Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979) + Segment about the advent of computer animation (1970) + Robot autonomously circumvents obstacles.
- Recently Posted on NYCs Craigslist: I need to get off of Craigslist and call 911 + I am hoping you will believe that there are women begging me for sex + If you’re an awful parent, perhaps you can help me.
- Neuropsychologist A.R. Luria studied one of the world’s great memories.
- Trying to understand why the super-rich hate the President.
- Freeman Dyson recalls his relationship with Ludwig Wittgenstein.
- Elon Musk tells Chris Anderson about his mission to Mars.
- In the 1970s, NASA designed fantastic stratospheric cities.
- Upton Sinclair was the target of the first modern political smear campaign.
- Pete Hamill covered the tempestuous 1968 Summer Olympics.
- Jonathan Safran Foer reconsiders chess legend Bobby Fischer.
- A solar farm is blooming in the Mohave Desert.
- The origin story behind the board game Monopoly.
- The oldest commercial computer is returned to working order.
- Nature preserves haven’t stopped biodiversity loss.
- A new jet may be able to travel 2,500 miles per hour.
- Sculpture may or may not survive the Digital Age.
- A consideration of philosopher Thomas Nagel’s new book.
- A smart highway is being built in the Netherlands.
- New technology has changed cinema, but for the better?
- A step forward in performance-enhancing exoskeletal limbs.
- The Mona Lisa’s popularity is usually explained with silly reasoning.
- Recalling when Robert Goddard decided he wanted to build rockets.
- A brief note from 1892 about a hasty undertaker.
- A brief note from 1892 about a sky rocket.
- This weeks Afflictor keyphrase searches.