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A 1,000-Page Reminder That Energy and Foreign Affairs Can't Be Untangled
A new look at how Henry Kissinger's State Department dealt with the energy crises of the 1970s. There are lots of reasons to support energy-technology research and commercialization, if you ask me....
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I Have Seen the Future of the 'Geek Dad' Movement, and It Is Called the Megapram
Meet the world's fastest stroller. This is a video of a guy who has decked out his newborn baby's stroller with an engine. The stroller has four gears. And cupholders. And it reaches maximum speeds of...
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What Was Reddit Troll Violentacrez Thinking?
Little of what Violentacrez told Gawker's Adrian Chen can help us understand what makes someone troll. German-American philosopher Hannah Arendt wrote that certain instances of wickedness seem to stem...
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Happy Ada Lovelace Day! A Collection of Essays on Gender and Tech From Your...
On a day that honors one of the (female) pioneers of computer science, a round-up of our work on women in technology. Wikimedia Commons Today marks Ada Lovelace Day, named after one of the pioneers of...
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Troll-Hunting
The internet is all crazy over Adrian Chen's expose of Reddit mega-troll ViolentAcres. Here's Chen going all "The Next Rhyme I Write Might Be About You" on some of Reddit's more odious characters:Last...
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This Seemingly Small Explosion on the Sun is 100,000 Miles Tall
I sometimes find that amid Hubble's glorious pictures of our galaxy, neighboring galaxies, and far off corners of the universe, our humble solar system can begin to feel very local, and with that, even...
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Just One More Seriously Breathtaking Video of the Earth From Space
By now you've probably seen one of the many gorgeous time-lapse videos created with photographs taken by the crew of the International Space Station. Yeah, yeah, pretty cool. But just when you think...
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'Share Your Experiences as a Mansplainee Here'
There's a new Tumblr for women in academia. Quickmeme Ada Lovelace Day -- the day celebrating women in science and tech -- seems like a good day to talk about mansplaining. And to talk, more...
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Has Voyager 1 Entered Interstellar Space?
Definitely maybe NASA In 1977, humans sent two small machines on a journey far far away from Earth, the twin probes of the Voyager mission. In the three and a half decades since, they have traveled...
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Internet Service Providers Are About to Crack Down on lllegal File-Sharing
A long-planned anti-piracy measure will be rolling out "over the next several weeks." Shutterstock/Bjarne Henning Kvaale Back in July 2011, a coalition of U.S. Internet providers -- including AT&T,...
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A Smarter Way to Move Information: APIs Explained With Shipping Containers
"Information is still being shipped around break bulk. I mean, it's a mess!" Peter Lucas, founder of Pittsburgh design firm MAYA, says; "There are like 53 different protocols and there's one that we...
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Solving Solar's Biggest Problem Didn't Take Technology Development
The Atlantic's Alexis Madrigal in conversation with industry entrepreneurs shaping our future. See full coverage For probably 40 years, energy analysts have pointed out a key problem for solar power...
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From 'Ad Hoc' to 'Ad,' in 90 Seconds
A political action committee snaps up bindersfullofwomen.com. BindersFullofWomen.com Bad news, guys: If you were in the market to buy BindersFullofWomen.com, that domain is no longer available for...
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In Praise of the BlackBerry
Why the New York Times is wrong to dismiss BlackBerry users as "uncool" and "embarrassing." Reuters The day had finally arrived: My two-year cell phone contract was up, and I could finally ditch my...
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The Beershed of America and Other Fascinating Food Visualizations
Maps of the global almond trade, farmers' market accessibility, European food specialties, and more Strips from five of the seventy-plus maps in Food: An Atlas. What do you see when you map the world...
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Google Has a Stormtrooper Guarding Its Data Center
Ha. Ha. Ha. At Google's North Carolina data center, there is a model of a stormtrooper guarding the computers, a new peek inside the facility revealed. See above, obviously. Atlantic reader Rick Jones...
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How the Moon Was Born
New evidence solves an old mystery about the origins of Earth's largest satellite. This is an artist's conception of a planetary smashup whose debris was spotted by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope and...
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Abe Lincoln's Ultraslick, Obama-like Social Media Campaign
A satirical site is asking for your 15 cents to support the Lincoln-Johnson ticket -- "less than the cost of a green turtle soup!" Wikimedia Commons This morning I received an email from Mary Todd...
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Could We One Day Send Humans to the Newly Discovered Planet Orbiting Alpha...
Put on your thinking caps and let's get planning!Artist's rendering of an exoplanet (NASA) Notes and Dispatches from the Urban Future See full coverage During the last three years, astronomers have...
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Bigger, Better Google Ngrams: Brace Yourself for the Power of Grammar
Back in December 2010, Google unveiled an online tool for analyzing the history of language and culture as reflected in the gargantuan corpus of historical texts that have been scanned and digitized...
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