As sad as it is that Joan Rivers passed away this week, perhaps it’s best she didn’t revive. After not getting any oxygen to her brain for several minutes, she likely would have been little more than a…
…Kardashian.
- Old Print Articles: Baseball great Grover Cleveland Alexander is a dime-museum attraction (1939) + Transylvania grave robbers allegedly rescue prematurely buried woman (1932).
- Featured Videos: Steve Wozniak in a Datsun 280-ZX commercial (1979) + Hippies turn into Jesus Freaks (1972) + Robert the Robot tidies up the house (1956) + Joan Rivers did a Q&A with UCLA students (1972).
- Recently Posted on NYC’s Craigslist: I’m looking for the responsible coke dealer + I’m beginning to think I’m unpopular.
- Geoff Dyer analyzes Norman Mailer’s A Fire on the Moon as its republished.
- Grover Norquist wants the whole world to be Burning Man, for fuck’s sake.
- The celebrity nudes craziness said so much about the Internet–and us.
- Marc Maron talks to Jay Bakker about being the son of Jim and Tammy Faye.
- ISIS is a group of fugazi fundamentalists.
- Driverless cars still have serious obstacles to navigate.
- Germany has been road-testing autonomous cars for two decades.
- Delivery drones couldn’t be cost-effective under current FAA rules.
- Automation might bring about the end of capitalism.
- The Rental Economy was sparked by the Great Recession.
- The Sharing Economy is great for consumers, bad for workers.
- Watson has moved from providing known answers to the unknown.
- We probably need to redefine the meaning of “job.”
- Globalization has caused income inequality to rise within nations.
- The U.S. may regulate Uber eventually, but not until it’s won.
- Germany has just banned Uber.
- New York City finally nabbed its biggest marijuana dealer.
- Pre-cognitive policing is a thorny subject for our future.
- China is degrading Hong Kong’s status as a world financial center.
- Social media is being used to track the Ebola virus.
- Chuck Todd isn’t sure that President Obama is emotionally disengaged.
- The last surviving Hindenburg crew member just passed away.
- Štefan Klein has designed an honest-to-goodness flying car.
- In 1962, Bill Veeck had poor suggestions for speeding up baseball.
- Peter Thiel thinks we’ve lost our edge technologically.
- Photographs are only crude representations.
- We might be on the verge of a third computing revolution.
- It’s tricky for social scientists to do research online.
- Miranda July’s new app is both personal and impersonal.
- Aubrey de Grey thinks we’re on the cusp of forever, implants will be huge.
- Google’s life-extension plans seem to have grown more realistic.
- A brief note from 1911 about a bad meal.
- A brief note from 1910 about an older sister.
- A brief note from 1910 about a rare condition.
- This week’s Afflictor keyphrase searches.