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I think of a privileged little scene earlier in the day in the mahogany-paneled men's locker room of a private club in Boston. Two investment bankers, plump and pink from their game of squash, stand stark naked before the large television set on the wall, tuned to CNBC...
Comedy and tragedy have had an incestuous relationship throughout the history of the arts; often a laugh quickly escalates into affliction or a misfortune is made light by a comic touch. The life of a stand-up comedian hangs between these two entangled polarities. With his video in progress, Kyle...
Have you looked at any seniors recently? They're dressed pretty nicely, in button-down shirts, khakis, black pants, etc. But they have bags under their dull, glazed-over eyes. Their brows are often furrowed. You ask them what is wrong? "Recruiting," they reply.
Either way, as I push through the crowded train, they are easy to spot, their furrowed brows of concentration broken only by a slightly goofy grin. Eye contact between us is brief - this is New York, after all - but knowing.
Back in the 1930s, my predecessor at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, Harry Shapiro, while sensibly warning of the "dangers of prophecy," wondered what humans might become a half-million years hence. His predictions included such features as a rounder skull, a smoothing of the...