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What Your Spoon Says About You
Spoons hold up a mirror to the surrounding culture precisely because they are universal. There are fork cultures and there are chopstick cultures, but all the peoples of the world use spoons....
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The Disease of Jumping From the Sky
A history of aviation's wildest daredevils Reuters For a small minority of its practitioners, aviation is not a hobby or profession but a disease. In these extreme cases, the desire to be thousands of...
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If I Fly a UAV Over My Neighbor's House, Is It Trespassing?
Even a toy drone with an HD camera scrambles our sense of property and privacy rights.The AR.Drone.2.0 in action in my backyard.My poor kitten, who my unfortunate Instagram contacts know too well, gets...
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Chart: Apple's Share Price Since the iPhone 5 Came Out
After Clay Johnson joked on Twitter that Apple had lost a Facebook's worth of value since the release of the iPhone 5, I decided to pull the company's chart. The percentage change is rather small,...
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Artichoke + MRI + GIF = Awesomeness
About two years ago, Andy Ellison needed to test one of the MRI machines he works with at his job at Boston University Medical School. He reached for an orange. The result was stunning: Since then,...
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What the SpaceX Dragon Capture Looked Like From the Space Station
The Dragon capsule: captured. This image shows the newly connected vehicles over the South Atlantic. (NASA TV) Today, at 9:03 am EDT, SpaceX's Dragon capsule successfully docked with the International...
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'At 5% Neanderthal, You Are An Outlier'
That is the kind of mail I am now receiving from scientists, after the revelation two days ago that I have an unusually large share of Neanderthal DNA (5%) in my genetic makeup. Plus, the accompanying...
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ATLAST: The Gargantuan Telescope Designed to Find Life on Other Planets
We finally know what kind of telescope we need to see other earth-like planets. And we're getting ready to build it.An artist's rendering of ATLAST (courtesy of the Space Telescope Science Institute)...
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Court Hands Huge Victory to Universities' Digitization Efforts
Universities can proceed with their efforts to scan books, not just because of the ability to search, but because of the huge benefits to blind students. uberculture/Flickr One of the biggest questions...
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A Newly Constructed Movie of Earthrise From the Apollo 11 Orbiter
I love NASA nerds. They tirelessly mine our nation's space history looking for forgotten stories, adding to databases, correcting metadata. And sometimes, they encounter a string of images from a...
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Dark Social: We Have the Whole History of the Web Wrong
Here's a pocket history of the web, according to many people. In the early days, the web was just pages of information linked to each other. Then along came web crawlers that helped you find what you...
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From 'Malarkey' to 'Laughing': The Google Searches of the V.P. Debate
When we have big events like presidential debates and awards shows and sports championships, it's more and more common to watch those events with a second screen -- a computer, a smartphone -- at the...
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Arctic Sea Ice Shrunk to a Record Low, So Why Is Antarctica's Setting Record...
The countervailing effects don't cancel each other out. They're both signs of the changes we are bringing to the planet. NASA In the seas to our north, sea ice is melting at a perilous pace. This year...
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The Universe Around You: What an Amateur Astrophotographer Can See
Here is the first page of Google Image Search results for "nature photography": Which is to say, visually, that we have a very terrestrial understanding of nature. J-P Metsävainio is a nature...
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Your Real-Time Cyber-Attack Map
I have no idea how reliable the info shown here is, but it certainly is interesting. Especially to me, as I climb onto a plane bound for southern China via Japan. It's an animated real-time...
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Has Twitter Become Too Big for High-Quality Conversation?
Twitter may scale up better as a vehicle of information than as one of conversation. Toni F./Flickr Among the social media, Twitter, I think, is the most likely to be wrongly criticized. (Facebook I...
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What Should We Do With All This New Natural Gas Supply?
Maybe, just maybe, you can turn it into a true alternative to oil.It wasn't all that long ago -- the 1970s -- when American natural gas production was waning. If you look at the graph above, production...
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What an Academic Who Wrote Her Dissertation on Trolls Thinks of Violentacrez
A critical look at trolling subculture and how we talk about it bayakpo/funnyjunk.com Last week, Adrian Chen at Gawker published a long profile of infamous Reddit moderator Violentacrez, described as...
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'We Sleep Where We Work': 'SNL' Satirizes iPhone 5 Complaints
A biting parody of tech culture The iPhone 5 has disappointed some of its users. The maps problems. The camera problems. The fact that, despite Apple's claims of its device's ingenuity, the phone's...
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Rejoice, Ye Sufferers of Sickness, Whether of Space, Car, or Sea! NASA Has...
The space agency is developing a nasal spray to ease motion sickness. Shutterstock/iodrakon Water filters. Cordless tools. Shoe insoles. The list of life-improving products developed at NASA is long...
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