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Mesmerizing Videos of Ballerinas Preparing Their Pointe Shoes
I think I've found my ASMR trigger: watching YouTube videos of ballet dancers preparing their pointe shoes. Don't get me wrong, I like the actual ballet well enough. But there's something so uniquely...
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Hacking a Universe's Worth of Data
On a Friday night in New York City you can find just about anything. And this past Friday about 130 hackers gathered in the Hayden Planetarium to participate in the American Museum of Natural History’s...
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Chat Therapy with Robot Carl Sagan
As computers get better and better, therapists are beginning to see their work outsourced to algorithms that can offer an unending ear and compassionate advice. This isn’t one of those. It’s actually a...
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How Old Is a Star in Newspaper Years?
When you look up at the night sky, each little pinprick of light that is hitting your eyes left its home star light-years ago. You might already know this—it’s a standard fact of star gazing. But...
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Obama: The Internet Is a Utility
A new "net neutrality" plan released by the White House on Monday morning includes an endorsement of an old idea that some activists have been pushing for years: the treatment of the Internet as a...
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A Trio of Space Explorers Safely Return Home
Warmly wrapped in thermal blankets and with his hand raised toward the sky, Russian cosmonaut Maxim Suraev flashed a V for “victory” after successfully landing onto frost-covered Kazakhstani soil after...
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The Seismologists Accused of Manslaughter
On March 31, 2009, after experiencing a swarm of tiny seismic tremors, the town of L’Aquila, Italy turned to seven earthquake experts for insight on “the big one.” The group, which included scientists,...
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It's Everywhere, the Clickbait
In “Why BuzzFeed Doesn't Do Clickbait” last week, BuzzFeed’s editor in chief Ben Smith made the case that his site does not publish clickbait. It has long actively opposed the practice, he wrote. The...
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The iPhone Case That Can Call the Police
A startup company in Pittsburgh called Lifeshel is working on technology designed to enable people facing assault or other emergencies to contact police in the smartest and fastest way possible. Their...
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For the First Time, Humanity Is Landing on a Comet
Wait, we're landing on a comet? Yes! Which comet? It's called 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko; it was discovered in 1969 (and named, as you may have guessed, for its discoverers). And it's small. Its...
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What the Law Can (and Can't) Do About Online Harassment
It was late summer when we met, on a patio jutting out onto the Pacific. The night was still warm as I sipped my Gewürztraminer and asked him about his exciting career. His articulate responses drew me...
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The Conservative Case for Net Neutrality
Everyone likes the Internet. While not wholly true, per se, it can sometimes seem this way in national politics. Democrats like tech startups, Republicans like tech startups, everyone likes innovation...
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The Coffee Pot That Only Works When It's Windy
It's going to take more than just reducing, reusing, and recycling to stop wasting energy and precious fuel. It's going to take synchronizing what humans want with what the planet needs. And that might...
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How Philae's Comet Compares to the Statue of Liberty and Eiffel Tower
Last month, Rosetta looked over its shoulder and captured an image of Comet 67P—a kind of space “selfie.” But it’s hard to tell even in this photo whether 67P is huge and far-off or small and close-by....
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Musician Plays an Actual Keyboard Cat
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The Holy Grail of the TV Industry
Geroge Heilmeier's career was made of classified projects. He would at some point work for the government on stealth bombers and the like, and at DARPA, one of the agencies best known for its secret...
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The Boy With the Lego Hand
Born with a left arm that ends just below his elbow, 9-year-old Aidan Robinson has had his share of prosthetic arms. As a baby, he wore a passive arm, plastic and immovable like a doll’s arm, which...
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How How It's Made Is Made
In 2001, the Discovery Channel in Canada launched a brand new show. How It’s Made would chronicle how everyday objects were sliced, diced, glued, packaged and assembled. The first season covered...
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Do You Want Your Text Messages to Render as You Type Them?
If you keep track of all the things there should probably be German words for, here's one more to add to the list: the moment someone you're texting or chatting with starts texting or chatting...
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How Elephant Teeth Taught Scientists Extinction Existed
At the end of the 18th century, Georges Cuvier was thinking quite seriously about elephant teeth. He was working in Paris, in the National Museum of Natural History, where he had unusual access to...
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