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Imagine Getting 30 Job Offers a Month (It Isn't as Awesome as You Might Think)
David Heinemeier Hansson is a book author, a public speaker, a photographer, a father, a race car driver, and the founder and CTO of the productivity software firm Basecamp. He is probably best known,...
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To 3D Print Coney Island
Fred Kahl, a creative director and designer at New York media firm Funny Garbage, is using a very new technology to create a very old thing. The new technology: MakerBot 3D printers. The old thing: The...
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5 Intriguing Things With Guest MCs Climate Confidential
Meet today's guest MCs Climate Confidential. They're a journalistic supergroup who have formed their own subscription news organization with the aid of a new platform for financially backing writers...
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Where Time Comes From
The time that ends up on your smartphone—and that synchronizes GPS, military operations, financial transactions, and the internet—originates in a set of atomic clocks at the U.S. Naval Observatory.
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What It’s Like to Be at the Bottom of the Ocean
You are in a metal sphere that is not much wider than your outstretched arms. It is uncomfortable, cramped and cold and there are no facilities. You can't hear any noise from the ocean, but you do...
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East, West, and Points In Between
Yesterday I rashly entered the "when does west become east?" debate, involving whether Maine or Alaska can more properly claim to include the furthest-east point in the United States. Now we hear from...
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Do You Know About the Leap Second?
The mechanics of the leap year are well known: We add a day to February every four years to maintain the synchronization of our earthly calendar with the celestial reality of the Earth's orbit....
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Gravity, the Sequel: Why the Real Story Would Be on the Ground
When it came out last year, Gravity was an immediate critical and box office success. Now it's up for 10 Academy Awards, and The Atlantic's film critic predicts Alfonso Cuarón will take home the Oscar...
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5 Intriguing Things: Friday, 2/28
1. I'm not sure I like Michio Kaku's vision of the 'brain-net.' "Already, people who are totally paralyzed, who are living souls trapped inside a vegetable of a body, are now being given the gift of...
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That Time Reddit Helped Identify a 14-Million-Year-Old Whale Fossil
This afternoon, reddit hosted the paleontologist Nick Pyenson for an Ask Me Anything session. The occasion was the publication of a new paper in which Pyenson shared his solution to a mystery that's...
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A World of Water, Seen From Space
The GPM Core satellite launches from Japan on Thursday, February 27. (NASA)Late last week, from a launch pad at the Tanegashima Space Center in southern Japan, a rocket shot toward space. Nestled...
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Refugee Housing by Ikea
1. Refugee housing developed by Ikea. "The house comes in a flat pack that can be put together without tools. It is equipped with solar lighting and is portable... The house weighs 100 kilos and is...
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How We Picture a City: Venice and Google Maps
College was boring, so, in the 18th century, young British nobles skipped it altogether. They went instead on The Grand Tour, a glitzy sojourn through Europe, the gap year to beat all gap years. On...
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Remembering MIT, When There Were Just 50 Women in a Class of 1,000
When Radia Perlman attended MIT in the late '60s and '70s, she was one of just a few dozen women (about 50) out of a class of 1,000. There were so few other women around, she told me, that she often...
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Internet TV Was the Big Loser on Oscar Night
One of the biggest nights in American television was essentially unwatchable online, as technical problems marred various live streams of the Oscars and highlighted the huge gap between internet TV’s...
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How the Time in the Sky Differs From the Time on the Clock
My Michigander friends always mention the late night sunsets. Michigan sits north in the country and west in its time zone—U.S. Eastern—so its naturally late summer evenings fall especially high on the...
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Soon, Our Robot Coffee Baristas Will Only Brew Certain Brands
We American coffee-drinkers have known the Era of Starbucks and the Epoch of Sanka. It seems, however, we currently live in the Age of the K-Cup. And we’re about to discover everything that means....
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The Technological Development of the Female Condom
1. The return of the female condom. "By 2003, they had hit on the solution: a dissolving applicator. The engineers created a condom that looked like a funnel, with a thin sheet of polyurethane that...
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Resolved: GIFs Are Actually Important
PopThere's something silly about GIFs. Perhaps it's the smell of the early, weird web. Or maybe it's in the nature of the loop itself. Or perhaps we think that such short clips cannot be meaningful,...
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The Uncanny Valley, Interior-Design Edition
The "uncanny valley" usually applies to human aesthetics. It describes that vague sense of revulsion you get when you see a fabricated person—a robot, usually—who looks aaaaalmost human … but not...
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