Cartoon: “Quick, we need a distraction. Release the pee pee tapes!”
Month: July 2020
After Years of Experiments Subject Finds He’s Hooked on Placebos
MADISON, Wis. Gerry van Earle can remember the first time he agreed to be part of a medical experiment as if it were yesterday, even though it has now been twenty years since he first […]
On Deadline in the Robotic Newsroom
Google is funding a robot journalism project that will use artificial intelligence to write local news stories. London Evening Standard “My IBM desk-top has a lead on next week’s school lunch menu.” We were […]
I’ll Have Another Screwdriver
Artwork by Lauren Faulkenberry. Idea/text by Bill Spencer. Lauren Faulkenberry is a novelist and illustrator living in western North Carolina. Originally from South Carolina, she has worked as an archaeologist, an editor, and a ranger […]
Spot Gets Involved in Politics
A man who did not live in Wyoming was once the Democratic Party’s nominee for that state’s lone seat in the U.S. House of Representatives. His campaign consisted entirely of sock-puppet videos. Los Angeles Times […]
