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It's National Mole Day! Celebrate Accordingly
How to celebrate the nerdiest holiday this side of Pi Day Oregon State University Today is National Mole Day. Because if there's any occasion to recognize the breakthrough number that is 6.02214179(30)...
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Curiosity's Cousins: Meet the Rover Fleet of the Canadian Space Agency
A fleet of vehicles ready to explore lunar and Martian terrains In 2009, the Canadian Space Agency committed $110 million the development of advanced robotics and space exploration technologies. The...
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Pupdate: The Debate Over Whether Dogs Can Catch Yawns from Humans Rages On
A new study shores up the idea that 'yawn contagion' can leap the species barrier, but the science remains unsettled. This dog is yawning (flickr/davefayram).Every corner of science has its own set of...
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'In the Water, a Supercomputer and a Population of Dolphins'
"The dolphins are there to program the computer acoustically with ultrasonic sound waves from their sophisticated sonar systems." Yesterday, I mentioned that Navy researchers had a white whale on their...
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Google's Street View Sherpas Tackle the Grand Canyon
Despite all our robots, humans really are the best at certain tasks, like hiking the Grand Canyon. Google's Ryan Falor with a backpack and an Android phone (Google). We're all familiar with the Google...
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What It Was Like to Be a Telephone Operator on the Night Orson Welles...
When Martians attack, who you gonna call? Actually, just the operator. On October 30, 1938, Orson Welles (somewhat intentionally) created one of the great hoaxes in American history, broadcasting a...
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Does Higher Energy Consumption Cause Greater Economic Output?
An old energy debate gets a new solar shine. Let's start with a basic correlation: Rich countries use a lot more energy than poor countries on a per capita basis. Is this an accident? What kind of...
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1 Picture, 9,000 Megapixels, 84 Million Stars
The VISTA telescope in northern Chile had compiled the largest catalog of the stars swirling around the core of our galaxy. ESO That right there? That's the center of our galaxy, as seen by the...
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The Best Halloween Costume Is a Robot Halloween Costume
Foil, boxes, some old CDs ... and you've got yourself an amazing getup. Flickr/goodncrazy Fact: On Halloween, or really on any holiday, there is nothing better than a homemade robot costume. Swathing...
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111 Days of Ozone Change, in 1 GIF
Watch the Antarctic ozone hole grow and shrink before your eyes. Images by NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center; GIF by @faketv Good news! The average area covered by the Antarctic ozone hole this year,...
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Promising Software News: 'Intentional Software' and GTD
Back in 2004 I wrote an article about David Allen, creator of and evangelist for the "Getting Things Done" (GTD) approach to organizing your activities and remaining calm in the chaos of modern life....
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David Allen on How to Fix Your Life
As I mentioned earlier today, I've been writing about and learning from the productivity expert David Allen for nearly a decade. Eight years ago, I wrote a profile of him for the magazine. In our...
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The World Is Not Enough: Google and the Future of Augmented Reality
The new Google FieldTrip app probes the question: What digital information do you want to see overlaid on the physical world? A book in The Future.It is The Future. You wake up at dawn and fumble on...
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Your Aviation-Porn Video of the Day: Endeavour Over SoCal
For anyone who has not seen this, a truly beautiful extended-play video of the space shuttle Endeavour's final flyover across Southern California last month. It was shot, with impressively smooth...
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Surmounting the Insurmountable: Wikipedia Is Nearing Completion, in a Sense
And that's something of a challenge for the collaborative encyclopedia going forward Nearing completion? Gaudí's Sagrada Familia and ... Wikipedia? (Wikimedia Commons) For about the last five years,...
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The Consequences of Machine Intelligence
If machines are capable of doing almost any work humans can do, what will humans do? MGM The question of what happens when machines get to be as intelligent as and even more intelligent than people...
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Hurricanes Past and Future
We parochially minded East Coasters suddenly have something to think about other than enduring the ads, chatter, bluster, and attacks of the 12 days until the election. We can be distracted through...
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Frontline: Have the Climate Deniers Already Won?
Lately public opinion has shifted back towards belief in the reality of climate change that is caused by humans.PBS FrontlineOn Tuesday Night, PBS's Frontline aired an hour-long special on the climate...
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Scientists Recover the Sounds of 19th-Century Music and Laughter From the...
Computer analysis of a piece of foil reveals audio captured by a Thomas Edison-invented phonograph in St. Louis in 1878. The piece of foil onto which the sounds were recorded. (AP) Last night at the GE...
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Chris Anderson on the Maker Movement: 'We're Going to Get Sued'
The Wired editor on the IP implications of DIY culture Anderson models an early prototype of a DIY drone, February 2009 (Flickr/Steve Jurvetson) Chris Anderson expects to be sued. Any day now. In a...
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