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This week, Ebola was driven out of New York City…

…when this guy accidentally urinated on it…

…and this chick puked all over it.

• Old Print Articles: Sir Arthur Conan Doyles explains what the afterlife is like (1922) + Clarence Darrow thinks no criminal is culpable (1931) + Nikola Tesla files his final patent (1928).

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• In 1967, Renata Adler investigated Sunset Strip counterculture.

• Frank Rich argues it’s difficult to know the present, let alone the future.

• Paul Krugman believes Amazon is a robber baron of books.

• At last, a hole in the Amazon.com fortress.

• Mars colonization is about species survival–and financial opportunity.

• Some believe robocars are on the horizon. Others disagree.

• Perhaps a large stock of cheap labor will delay autonomous vehicles.

• Singapore is testing autonomous public transport with golf carts.

• Walter Isaacson profiles Wikipedia’s hive mind.

• Tim Berners-Lee is surprised and chagrined by Internet hate speech.

• Charles Babbage and Ada Lovelace were a century ahead of the field.

• Earnshaw Cook espoused Moneyball ideas before Billy Beane was born.

• E.O. Wilson’s new book stresses the immorality of ants.

• President Obama’s science moonshot is focused on the human brain.

• In 1979, ABC News looked at the U.S. government’s attempts at mind control.

• Uber offered some customers a chance to have flu shots “delivered.”

• In 1959, Isaac Asimov analyzed creativity.

• A few people with high IQs try to explain the nature of genius.

• A journalist just returned from Liberia did an AMA about Ebola.

• Our era is challenging, but perhaps not as bad as we think.

• Thomas Piketty has good and bad news about income inequality.

• Nelson Bunker Hunt, wingnut Texas oilman, passes away.

• David Remnick recalls his old WaPo boss Ben Bradlee.

• Florida won’t likely split into two states, but it’s fun to dream.

• New Chicago streetlights will collect ambient data.

• Marijuana cultivation is California’s biggest drought-related crime.

• A look at the domed habitat for Hawaii’s next Mars simulation.

• In the future, baths will be different.

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• A brief note from 1913 about a woodchopper.

• A brief note from 1913 about a peculiar operation.

• A brief note from 1901 about a tobacco habit.

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This week, the number of U.S. citizens who’ve died from the Ebola virus on American soil held steady.

• Old Print Articles: Mussolini was not so beloved at the end of his life (1945) + Vladimir Lenin’s brain sliced into thousands of pieces (1929) + Dinosaur eggs found by Americans for the first time (1923).

• Featured Videos: Theodore Rosak worried about the coming Information Age (1986) + Marshall McLuhan enjoyed a “Picnic in Space” (1967) + Elon Musk shares his aggressive timeline for driverless cars + A look at Finnish philosopher, technologist and electronic music pioneer Erkki Kurenniemi.

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• You might soon be able to recharge your electric car pretty much anywhere.

• We’ll eventually be able to manipulate intelligence genetically.

• Genetic engineering will be a matter of national security.

• Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn would have likely supported Russia invading Ukraine.

• The Brezhnev and Putin regimes have a certain amount in common.

• Bill Gates reviews Thomas Piketty’s surprise bestseller.

• The GOP cares about public health suddenly during midterm elections.

• Driverless cars will be sold to consumers in numerous ways.

• Glenn Close grew up in a right-wing, anti-intellectual cult.

• Hollywood’s “middle class” has all but disappeared.

• The NFL wanted performers to pay to play at the Super Bowl.

• You can write an Amazon bestseller and make almost no money.

• Airbnb rentals may often be illegal, but the company is likely here to stay.

• The Sharing Economy is the Internet’s anarchic spirit unloosed offline.

• Nicholas Carr thinks we’ve designed a world intended for machines.

• Search engines may be making us dumber–or maybe not.

• Documentarian Eugene Jarecki measures Google and Wikileaks.

• Talented baseball GMs might currently be overvalued.

• Thom Andersen’s Los Angeles Pays Itself gets the attention it deserves.

• Adam Gopnik lovingly recalls the magic of the Montreal Expos.

• Wavy Gravy, Woodstock hippie, did an Ask Me Anything at Reddit.

• The first Danish astronaut considers the future of space travel.

• Humans might survive the Anthropocene, but it won’t be pretty.

• Having a black President didn’t lead to a post-racial America.

• Perhaps space tourism will encourage environmentalism on Earth.

• Psychologist Bruce Hood points out that even the secular are superstitious.

• Software and sensor suppliers may be the big winners in driverless cars.

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This week, there was bad news for American students competing for seats at our finest universities.

• Old Print Articles: Demo of what’s likely the first driverless car (1930) + L. Ron Hubbard book reviews (1937/50) + Stories about Walt Disney (1938/54).

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• Krugman believes financial bubbles aren’t leading to crashes. 

• Matt Bai, author of a new book about the Gary Hart scandal, did an AMA.

• Uber’s business practices might doom it, but it won’t end the Sharing Economy.

• David Remnick reminds that longreads were’t supposed to work online.

• Franklin Foer thinks Amazon is a monopoly that needs new regulations.

• Before becoming a humanistic benefactor, Bill Gates was an a-hole.

• The Technological Revolution has yet to increase production or wages.

• ISIS has a thoroughly modern marketing strategy.

• If we survive existential risks, we may gain unprecedented wealth.

• Some think brain injuries and scandals won’t doom the NFL.

• Douglas Coupland looks at the positive side of the selfie.

• Marshall McLuhan was the greatest prophet of the Information Age.

• Carlos Slim insists that the three-day work week will become reality.

• In 1974, Exorcist author William Paul Blatty decried the critical elite.

• Filmmaker Steve McQueen discusses his work and personal reputation.

• F. Murray Abraham says he used to be crazy, isn’t any longer.

• A mission to Mars is cheaper if the astronauts are rendered unconscious.

• 3-D printers may soon replace the kitchen staff.

• Plant “blood” could be a boon to faux-meat makers.

• Urban farming might help feed a growing world population.

• The wristwatch-drone camera could possibly be put to ill use.

• Slavoj Žižek believes philosophy is more necessary than ever.

• Aubrey de Grey addresses overpopulation in a deathless world.

• Tesla Motors is moving forward with more-robotic models.

• Obese people seem to earn lower wages than the thin. Why?

• NYC becomes a megacity overnight. What happens next?

• A mock cityscape in Michigan will test driverless cars.

• NYC’s Mudd Club was very popular, very creepy.

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This week, U.S. nurses announced they are unprepared to handle Ebola patients and…

…him.

• Old Print Articles: David Lasser believes rockets can travel to the moon (1931) + F. Scott Fitzgerald is a big misogynist (1924) + The price of a human skeleton in Kansas City (1902).

• Featured Videos: Timothy Leary and Dr. Jerry Lettvin debate LSD at MIT (1967) + “Year: 1999 A.D” imagined a technotopia, got some things right (1967) + Joe Garagiola hosts baseball bubble-gum blowing competition (1975).

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• Elon Musk takes writer Ross Andersen on a mission to Mars.

• Some scientists and philosophers are focusing on existential risks.

• Homo sapiens will likely be just one kind of human in the future.

• South Korea smart city Songdo is now partially realized.

• Movies will eventually be released on all screens. Even awful ones.

• Ray Kurzweil and MIT economist Andrew McAfee debate the “end of work.”

• Roboticist Hod Lipson wants to create self-aware AI.

• Peter Thiel thinks the world is technophobic.

• The Technological Age has been good for consumers but not workers.

• Los Angeles is fully embracing driverless cars.

• Building a technotopia in downtown Las Vegas has proven difficult.

• Steven Pinker thinks he knows why most writing is so bad.

• Jeff Bezos hasn’t yet begun reinventing the Washington Post.

• Bayesian statistics isn’t a sure thing but a surer one.

• The Gutenberg printing press had unintended consequences.

• The phone call is being reimagined for today’s endless media stream.

• Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the current Supreme Court’s worst decisions.

• Are dreams the brain’s equivalent of a computer’s inspection of its programs?

• Drug addiction is hopeless, but only for a small minority.

• Elon Musk says 2015 Teslas will have 90% autopilot capacity.

• No one can no precisely how automation will effect Labor.

• The Industrial Revolution may have been the impetus for nation-states.

• Tiny robots will reduce surgical trauma.

• The global building boom has disappeared some beaches.

• A prognostication for rail travel in 2050.

• Defense has allowed star-less baseball teams to thrive.

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