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This week, Jim Carrey defended his insane anti-vaccination theories, saying he got his information from a highly trained medical professional.

• Old Print Articles: Mollie Fancher celebrates 50 years of being a bed-ridden clairvoyant (1916) + Robert Louis Stevenson dies on the Samoan Islands (1894).

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• In 1933, Dugald C. Jackson thought he could fix technological unemployment.

• Johannes Koponen suggests we need to own less stuff.

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• Ian Leslie compares data analysis and human intuition.

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• The Financial Times presents its summer books list.

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This week, there was good news for President Trump’s campaign. A full 1.3% of Americans said they would consider voting for him if he could pull a living Abraham Lincoln out of his rectum.

I’d rather be in the balcony at Ford’s Theatre.

• Old Print Article: French aviation pioneer Robert Esnault-Pelterie predicts a trip to the moon is possible (1928).

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• A.O. Scott writes about America’s affection for perpetual adolescence.

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• Richard Dawkins explains if we can revive our distant ancestor Lucy.

• Some in South Carolina still cling to the Confederate flag.

• Saudi Arabia makes progress with green energy and women’s rights.

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This week, America’s next President, Donald Trump, said wheelchair-bound pundit Charles Krauthammer is a “loser” who “just sits there.” He also took aim at that socialist jerk who’s always hanging around.

• Old Print Articles: A call for public baths to be built in NYC (1897) + Remembering when Jefferson Davis utilized camels in the U.S. military (1920).

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• Behavioral economist Richard Thaler suggests we build “decision engines.”

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• Neil deGrasse Tyson doesn’t fear the advent of superintelligence.

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• Martin Wolf thinks technology is overrated. Daniela Rus thinks it’s amazing.

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• Jenna Wortham explains what Uber has meant to African-Americans.

• The Confederate flag is a symbol of oppression. So is the U.S. flag, really.

• In 2014, the Chronicle looked at the Astros now-breached database.

• Farhad Manjoo of the NYT wonders about the future of transportation.

• At Grantland, great pieces about abandoned theme parks and Microserfs.

• Google hires Dan Doctoroff, the Balbo to Bloomberg’s Mussolini.

• In 1973, Arthur Schelsinger asked if we should reimagine the Presidency.

• America isn’t completely an asshole nation. Not completely.

• Journalist Abdel Bari Atwan believes horrible ISIS is now a country.

• German children indoctrinated by Nazis remain anti-Semitic.

• IOC President Thomas Bach discusses the body’s political responsibility.

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This week, Mike Huckabee confirmed that he’s considering a running mate who can reach out to young people.

• Old Print Articles: Bat Masterson dies a NYC newspaperman (1921) + Charles R. Knight, creator of prehistoric art, is visited in his studio (1927) + Mountaineer Annie Smith Peck reaches her career peek (1903).

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• In the NYRB, Michael Massing surveys the new digital journalism.

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• Neil deGrasse Tyson considers the intersection of art and science.

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• In his dotage, Marlon Brando instructed a mishegoss acting class.

• Google hired Dan Doctoroff to head its urban-improvement initiative.

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• Mercedes-Benz futurist Eric Larsen considers the car of tomorrow.

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• Neuroscientist Suzanne O’Sullivan writes about imaginary illnesses.

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This week, Rick Perry announced he’s running for President to improve the economy, fight terrorism, and, most importantly, to…

• Old Print Articles: New York man plans to fly to moon in own rocket (1930) + The Dust Bowl storms, a year after the first wave began (1935).

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• Mattathias Schwartz of the New Yorker did an AMA about Edward Snowden.

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• Christopher Mims writes about the Uberization of the sales force.

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• Ray Kurzweil believes our brains will soon be connected to the cloud.

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• Jeff Jarvis is peeved by technophobic art.

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• In 1997, Harvey Pekar wrote about fellow outcast artist Herbert Huncke.

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This week, it became clear that the next World Cup may be an even-lower-scoring affair than usual.

• Old Print Article: A Coney Island funeral service is performed by phonograph (1895).

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• CERN scientists conducted an AMA about the Large Hadron Collider.

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• Neal Stephenson reveals the existential threats he most fears.

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• Freeman Dyson writes about Hubble Telescope photography.

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