- Old Print Articles: Witchery suspected in Orange, New York (1905) + Before becoming President, Grover Cleveland was an executioner (1912) + Three Texans search for Jean Lafitte’s buried treasure (1893).
- Featured Videos: Woody Allen, Nancy Sinatra’s dad, interviewed by a French journalist (1979) + Philip K. Dick interviewed in France (1979) + Atlas, the anthropomorphic robot, can now handle rough terrain + A Mercedes Benz autonomous vehicle takes a long trip + Atlanta-based voice actor Susan Bennett is the sound behind Siri + Norman Mailer, brilliant writer and sometimes a buffoon, explains hipsterism (1960s) + John DeLorean falls from grace (1984/85) + British science historian James Burke predicts life in 2100.
- Recently Posted on NYC’s Craigslist: On the bright side, I didn’t eat any squirrels. + But I like when squirrels ear each other + Not even Star Wars fans are this gullible + Were you asleep during the Bush-Cheney years?
- Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia believes in the devil.
- The U.S government can’t function with pure partisanship, fueled by insularity.
- Nate Silver doesn’t think the shutdown will allow the Dems to regain the House.
- Slavoj Žižek links the shutdown to the 2008 economic collapse.
- The NFL has long tried to hide that its players wind up brain damaged.
- Major League Baseball is incredibly wealthy, yet struggling in some ways.
- San Francisco’s tech world has remade itself–yet again.
- In 1966, the New Yorker was wrong about computers.
- Perhaps the Internet is the natural thing, and newspapers were the aberration.
- We know we have consciousness, but we don’t know much more than that.
- Literary agent Andrew Wylie hates Amazon and lots of other stuff.
- Retrofitting the Digital Age to the Industrial Age won’t bring success.
- Autonomous vehicles aren’t new, just new to the highways.
- Autonomous vehicles are rapidly gaining consumer acceptance.
- Neuro pricing is creepy, perhaps effective.
- Students are using iPads to play games, which could perhaps be a good thing.
- Apple’s had a slippery place in the mobile market since the iPhone’s inception.
- David Epstein, author of the Sports Gene, appears on EconTalk.
- Tyler Cowen, author of Average Is Over, also appears on EconTalk.
- Singularity University has a religious fervor to it.
- The Economist looks at the upcoming Texas gubernatorial race.
- Craig Venter thinks we’ll soon be able to print out alien life forms.
- Seymour Hersh doesn’t think Osama bin Laden’s killing was faked.
- Cybersecurity expert Jacob Appelbaum thinks privacy is done.
- We might be able to create domed cities on other planets.
- Can traditional automakers repurpose themselves in a shifting world?
- People in Chicago and Leeds can support Revenge of the Mekons.
- A brief note from 1902 about a sore throat.
- A brief note from 1903 about a lightning calculator.
- A brief note from 1890 about a missing body.
- A brief note from 1901 about a leisurely drive.
- This week’s Afflictor keyphrase searches.