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A Massive Explosion on the Sun, With the Earth Shown at Scale
Itty-bitty planet On the last day of August at 4:36 in the afternoon EDT, a filament of solar material exploded out of the sun, hurtling into space at more than 900 miles a second. NASA's Solar...
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Geek in Chief: Barack Obama Redecorated the Oval Office With Patent Models
Earlier administrations "had a bunch of plates in there," he tells Vanity Fair, but "I'm not a dish guy." President Barack Obama shows students from Johnson College Prep in Chicago, Illinois, a model...
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On Its 50th Anniversary, Watch JFK's 'We Choose to Go to the Moon' Speech
On September 12, 1962, President Kennedy made an inspiring case for space exploration and putting a man on the moon by the end of the decade. Speaking at Rice University, where he was an honorary...
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How to Turn Your Computer Into a Cozy Living Room on a Rainy Day, Courtesy of...
Sometimes, even when it's nice out, you just want to curl up with a good book and a mug of hot chocolate. pennacook/Flickr With all these sunny, not-too-hot days in a row, the nice weather is getting a...
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Moondoggle: The Forgotten Opposition to the Apollo Program
For most of our lunar adventure, a majority of Americans did not support going to the moon. On the 50th anniversary of JFK's "We choose to go the moon" speech, we examine why.Today, we recall the...
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Kennedy, Before Choosing the Moon: 'I'm Not That Interested in Space'
The president sought space not because it was easy, but because it was expedient. The language was, almost literally, soaring. "We set sail on this new sea,"Â President Kennedy told the country,...
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Apple's iPhone 5 Announcement: Just the Facts
No hype allowed. Christina Bonnington/Wired After months of breathless anticipation, here is what Apple announced at today's event. 1. The new iPhone, iPhone 5 John Bradley/Wired Taller than earlier...
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That Time When John Kerry Reached Out to Voters on Friendster
Those were the days. Reuters The year is 2012, and candidates are all but required to have some sort of "social-media strategy." The numbers of followers they've racked up on Facebook, Twitter, and...
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iPhone 5? Yawn. What Will the 'Phone' of 2022 Look Like?
A romp through the weird, scary, awesome future of mobile communications. Edited Reuters.The near-term future of phones is fairly well-established. The iPhone 5 was released yesterday and its...
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Here It Is: The Best Word Ever
A man, his blog, and an adventure in lexicographic awesomeness Ted McCagg is a creative director in advertising in Portland, Oregon. In his spare time, for the past five years or so, McCagg has been...
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Neil Armstrong's Solemn but Not Sad Memorial at the National Cathedral
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The 20 Most Significant Inventions in the History of Food and Drink
Science experts rank the refrigerator as Invention #1. An Egyptian ploughman, circa 1200 BC (Wikimedia Commons) The Royal Society, the UK's national academy of science, had a question: What are the...
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The Dangers of Google's Decision to Block Access to the Infamous 'Innocence...
The attacks on U.S. embassies this week have been a test for Google's "bias in favor of free expression." The inside of the U.S. consulat in Benghazi following the attack earlier this week. (Reuters)...
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How a 14-Minute Video Can Trigger Violence Abroad
A perceived cozy relationship between the U.S. government and Internet companies doesn't help. One of the more perplexing questions that still remains on the protests gripping the Arab world this week...
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Start-Up Nation Great Lakes Begins, Here's Our Itinerary
We're aboard the plane heading for Chicago and Start-Up Nation 2012. That means we already feel pressed for time as our too-packed schedule gets even tighter. Covering so many places in a week, we can...
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Chicago's Tech Scene After the Groupon IPO
Groupon's share price may be down 80 percent since the company debuted on NASDAQ, but that hasn't stopped the money its IPO generated from pumping excitement and seed funding into Chicago's startup...
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Two Startup Trends in 2012: Less Social, More Physical
Last year, when Sarah and I toured the south looking for new tech companies, the tech world was actually quite a different place. Most notably, neither Facebook nor Groupon had debuted on public...
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'We're Literally Watching the Internet Be Rebuilt'
A new company uses big-data capabilities to decode the inner-workings of the modern Internet. Deep Field's Naim Falandino at TechBrewery in Ann Arbor, Michigan (Alexis Madrigal). What is the Internet?...
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New School: A Tumblr for Making Your Own Textbooks
Can a simple, easy way to build coursepacks catch on with students and professors? The Hasbroucks, their dog, and a switch built into a koala bear that some guy who now lives in Europe left at their...
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These Students Love Startups Like the Animal House Guys Loved Beer
These are kids who probably first heard Start Me Up on a Microsoft commercial. The second I started to mill around TechArb, the University of Michigan's student start-up accelerator, I was approached...
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