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What the Internet Actually Looks Like
GeoTel Communications via Fortune and Mashable Here is what the Internet looks like: not a series of GIFs or a video of surfing goats, but a spindly collection of fiberoptic cables. The Internet, as a...
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The Real iPod: Elon Musk's Wild Idea for a 'Jetson Tunnel' from S.F. to L.A.
The inventor wants to find the fifth dimension ... of transportation. Shutterstock/spfotocz Trains are slow. Planes are unwieldy. Cars are, er, pedestrian. What if there were another way -- a better...
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Picture of the Day: Nursery of 3,000 Stars
NASAToday's picture is a marvel not only of astronomy, but of digital imagery. Stitched together from images taken by the Hubble Space Telescope and La Silia, the European Southern Obervatory's...
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Coffee: Preventing Scurvy Since 1650
The "simple innocent" drink is also useful for preventing gout, dropsy, miscarriage ... British Museum via Boing Boing In 1650, St. Michael's Alley, London's first coffee shop, placed an ad in a...
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The Great Pretender: Turing as a Philosopher of Imitation
Such is Turing's legacy: that of a nested chain of pretenses, each pointing not to reality, but to the caricature of another idea, device, individual, or concept. Alan Turing statue at Bletchley Park...
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The Hivemind Singularity
In a near-future science fiction novel, human intelligence evolves into a hivemind that makes people the violent cells of a collective being. Slime mold network formation (Science).New Model Army, a...
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3 Charts That Show How Wikipedia Is Running Out of Admins
Very few people are being promoted into the humble, hard-working positions which make Wikipedia work.Flickr/Wikimedia IsraelVolunteer editing of Wikipedia is on a long decline. The number of editors...
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'The Revolution Begins Here': MSNBC's First Broadcast, July 1996
The network's first day of news reporting involved Boris Yeltsin and Bob Dole. Late yesterday, news broke that NBC and Microsoft would be parting ways. The erstwhile MSNBC.com now redirects to...
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Communion on the Moon: The Religious Experience in Space
Our secular endeavor of space exploration is flush with religious observance. Why is that? NASA Before the launch this weekend of three human beings into the ether of space around the Earth, before...
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Google's Marissa Mayer to Take Over as Yahoo Chief
Mayer has been at Google since the get-go, but told The New York Times that the switch "was a reasonably easy decision." Reuters In a major tech-industry move, The New York Times is reporting that...
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How to Make a Wind Turbine That Flies
Last week, we met Corwin Hardham, the CEO of Makani Windpower, which is at work on a revolutionary airborne wind turbine. This week, I want you to actually see how the turbine works. Below, you'll find...
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Yahoo's Assets: What Marissa Mayer Will Be Working With
An overview of the new CEO's expansive new domain Reuters In a surprise move today, Yahoo announced that, starting tomorrow, it'll have a new CEO. And that CEO will be none other than erstwhile Googler...
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We're Pulling for You, Chief Mayer; Now Do Something Radical
Six suggestions for the new CEO of Yahoo flickr/earcosNow this, this is interesting. The Internet giant of yore, Yahoo, has hired Marissa Mayer, a key executive at the company's archnemesis, Google....
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Picture of the Day: The Soyuz Takes Off
NASAOften do we hear about Soyuz, but rarely do we see it: This craft is space flight's present. ISS-bound (and now ISS-docked), Expedition 32 held Soyuz Commander Yuri Malenchenko, NASA Flight...
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'A Pregnant CEO: In Whose Lifetime?'
A 1992 speech takes on new meaning as Marissa Mayer announces her pregnancy. Twitter Nearly twenty years ago, in October of 1992, Lawrence Perlman gave a speech. The Ceridian Corporation CEO focused...
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The First Instagram vs. the First Photograph
The first light of the beloved app was a picture of, what else, someone's cute dog. Instagram Two years ago yesterday a start-up with an app called Codename uploaded the test picture above, the first...
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How Books Learn
Some years ago Stewart Brand, of The Whole Earth Catalog fame, wrote a fascinating book called How Buildings Learn, which was later made into a BBC series that, wonderfully enough, can now be seen on...
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What the Internet Wants From Marissa Mayer, in Five Words
Actually, one word: "Flickr" dearmarissamayer.com Earlier this year, in a brilliant, eviscerating, and really sort of heartbreaking essay, Mat Honan told the tale of "How Yahoo Killed Flickr and Lost...
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Man, Steve Wozniak Carries a Ton of Random Crap in His Backpack
As my mother would surely say: He's definitely going to have back problems if he doesn't already. I mean, one laser pointer sure, but multiple laser pointers?! Reuters Via Gizmodo, Apple co-founder,...
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Detroit 'Ruin Porn' from a Drone
The shift in perspective activates our media, not animal, vision. 'Ruin porn,' as it has rightly been called, is a staple of Tumblr culture. Broken down buildings catching the light just so. Stacks of...
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