Afflictor: Thinking the running of the bulls in Pamplona has competition as a tourist attraction.
It’s the running of the Baldwin.
Holy shit, that means I’m the sanest Baldwin now.
- Old Print Articles: “Lightning Calculator” Jacques Inaudi awes audiences (1901) + Female hermit dies (supposedly) at 111 years old (1880).
- Featured Videos: AMF introduces the DataMagic Bowling Data Computer (1970s) + Steve Martin, near the apex of his fame, visits Merv Griffin (1979) + Robert Evans looks back at his singular Hollywood career.
- Recently Posted on NYC’s Craigslist: Obamacare is off to a rocky start + “Bottomless” and “Face Swap” are just two options + I also offer Cesar Romero’s nail clippings.
- In one of his best articles, Tyler Cowen anticipates our technological future.
- Many journalists are leaving the NYT. Will the Times eventually “leave” the Times?
- Alex Gibney discusses Lance Armstrong with the Economist and Bill Simmons.
- Izabella Kaminska of the FT considers the challenges of the next three decades.
- George Clooney was one of the first cats to own a Tesla.
- Elon Musk believes he can build an electric supersonic jet.
- A new video game focuses on 1979’s Iranian Revolution.
- Jerry Saltz names the art book he most recommends for non-experts.
- Robert Altman’s Short Cuts is remembered as it turns 20.
- Evolutionary biologist Bjørn Østman did an Ask Me Anything at Reddit.
- A formerly Amish man, who quit his community at 17, did an AMA.
- Google is planning on putting a tattoo on your throat.
- An Urbee will try to drive cross country on 10 gallons of gasoline.
- Swedish statistician Hans Rosling thinks population is leveling off.
- Looking for the source of America’s pain-pill epidemic.
- Charlie Hunnam didn’t leave behind a huge Fifty Shades of Grey paycheck.
- An Argentine car mechanic created an invention that eases difficult births.
- Perhaps college athletes will be paid for their wealth-creating work.
- A Russian company aims to open a floating, boutique space hotel.
- A NYT op-ed makes strange arguments against Obamacare.
- Will the digital disaster of Obamacare doom the policy?
- Expired and overstock foods still have tremendous value.
- In 1979, actor Melvyn Douglas knew the future of technology would be personal.
- Game theory can be very helpful to a Price Is Right contestant.
- President Obama tries to ensure digital privacy with a security tent.
- The Paleofuture blog recalls an unrealized “centralized street-vacuum system.”
- A 1898 list of Top 100 Novels hasn’t aged particularly well.
- A brief note from 1898 about a wife swap.
- A brief note from 1892 about a good joke.
- This week’s Afflictor keyphrase searches.