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Thurgood Marshall: The Constitution Had to Be 'Corrected'
This article is the third in a series featuring clips from the American Archive of Public Broadcasting, which is working to digitize television and radio pieces so that they may be preserved for years...
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Our Numbered Days: The Evolution of the Area Code
Women at work at the telephone switchboard, 1914 (Library of Congress)In the mid-20th century, in response to the United States’ rapidly expanding telephone network, executives at Bell System...
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It Is Now Possible to Buy Tulips With Bitcoin
The floral startup BloomNation is now accepting Bitcoin for its products. That means it’s now possible to buy floral arrangements with bitcoin—and, more importantly, to convert bitcoins into tulips,...
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The Outsourced Lover
If you’re looking to add a digital spark to your relationship this Valentine’s Day, you can download the new app Romantimatic. Romantimatic will send you scheduled reminders to contact your significant...
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5 Intriguing Things: Friday, 2/14
1. Making noise as a political act. "The Symposium on Obfuscation will bring together experts from a variety of backgrounds who study, script and design technologies that either simulate, detect, or...
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What It Looks Like When One Satellite Sees Another
An artist's depiction of Landsat 5 (NASA)There will be pictures at the end of this post. I promise. But first, there is a story. There aren’t many U.S. government programs—even space programs—like...
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All Romantic Relationships Are Digital Now
According to a new Pew Internet survey, 72 percent of Americans adults who are seriously partnered—married or otherwise—say the Internet has had “no real impact at all” on their relationship. I have no...
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When You Fall in Love, This Is What Facebook Sees
Facebook might understand your romantic prospects better than you do. In a blog post published yesterday, the company’s team of data scientists announced that statistical evidence hints at budding...
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Happening Right Now: Gliding Attempt Across the Mountains, Nevada to South...
This morning a glider plane was launched from Minden, Nevada -- in the Sierra Nevada east of Lake Tahoe, very close to the California state line -- in an attempt to fly all the way during daylight...
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The Future of Sports Photography: Drones
Drones are being used to film ski and snowboarding events at the Winter Olympics in Sochi, as you may have noticed. But the use of unmanned aerial vehicles for sports photography is far from a passing...
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5 Intriguing Things: Monday, 2/18
1. A reason to be bearish about the future of face computers. "I would not use Glass while driving, but I did use the turn-by-turn directions app while my wife drove us to a party. I’m glad I was in...
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Confirmed: Tinder Works in Antarctica
A seal on Antarctica's Livingston Island approves of your evening plans. (Shutterstock/Simo Graells)Say you're a scientist, conducting research in Antarctica. Say it's cold. Really cold. So, so cold....
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When You Fall Out of Love, This Is What Facebook Sees
How does the end of a real-life relationship change our enduring relationship with social networks? What can be done to make real-life breakups less debilitating? How can we make them harder, if we're...
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Julia Child 'Edits' Videotape
This article is the fifth in a series featuring clips from the American Archive of Public Broadcasting, which is working to digitize television and radio pieces so that they may be preserved for years...
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The World's Next Atom Smasher May Be 60 Miles Long and Run Until 2075
The particles inside Ernest Lawrence's 1931 cyclotron particle accelerator traveled just 11 inches inside the perimeter of what he called his "proton-merry-go-round." The initial size was tiny, but...
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Revealing the Hidden Patterns of Birds and Insects in Motion
Dennis Hlynsky, a film and animation professor at the Rhode Island School of Design, creates videos at the intersection of art and science. Hlynsky transforms ordinary footage of birds and insects...
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Eleanor Roosevelt Talks to John F. Kennedy About the Status of Women in Society
This article is the sixth in a series featuring clips from the American Archive of Public Broadcasting, which is working to digitize television and radio pieces so that they may be preserved for years...
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5 Intriguing Things: Wednesday, 2/19
1. Videogames and the Spirit of Capitalism. "We are only learning to speak of immeasurable qualities through videogames. It’s a slow and collective process of hacking accounting machines into...
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In Sochi, Open Source Maps Beat Google's
How do you find reliable information? Back in 2005, a study in Nature concluded that Wikipedia—at the time, a free upstart just eking its way into the Google results—was about as good a source as the...
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The 'Insatiable' Adjectives of Sequoia Capital's Ode to WhatsApp
This evening, it was announced that Facebook has acquired the messaging app WhatsApp for a crazy amount of money $16 billion in cash and stock, plus $3 billion in Facebook stock to WhatsApp's...
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