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Why California's Wildfires Won't Be Getting Better Anytime Soon
On Friday, California’s wildfire season turned deadly, when Forest Service firefighter David Ruhl, 38, became the first wildland firefighter to be killed this year. Meanwhile, more than 10,000 homes...
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The Exoskeleton's Hidden Burden
Last year, a man in an exoskeleton kicked off the Men’s World Cup. Juliano Pinto, a 29-year-old from Brazil, was outfitted by a team of scientists from the Walk Again Project with a complex framework...
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Do Police Need a Warrant to See Where a Phone Is?
Right now, many Americans generate a detailed database of their whereabouts over time—as they move throughout the day from their workplace to their doctor, from their own house to their partner’s—that...
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The Covert World of People Trying to Edit Wikipedia—for Pay
On January 11, 2013, James Heilman, an emergency-room physician and one of Wikipedia’s most prolific medical editors, was standing watch over the online encyclopedia’s entry for a back procedure called...
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Coal's Devastation
In Anthony Doerr’s All the Light We Cannot See, a radio broadcaster marvels at the wonder of coal: Consider a single piece glowing in your family’s stove. See it, children? That chunk of coal was once...
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Don't Hate the Phone Call, Hate the Phone
One of the ironies of modern life is that everyone is glued to their phones, but nobody uses them as phones anymore. Not by choice, anyway. Phone calls—you know, where you put the thing up to your ear...
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The Importance of Being Naked
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Why Cellphones Make Humans Sound Like the Speak & Spell Robot
When I wrote about why we should blame our hatred of phone calls on equipment and infrastructure rather than human habits, I talked about the digital-switching infrastructure called pulse code...
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Humans, Not Robots, Are the Real Reason Artificial Intelligence Is Scary
Unfortunately, much of the recent outcry against artificial-intelligence weapons has been confused, conjuring robot takeovers of mankind. This scenario is implausible in the near term, but AI weapons...
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Climate Fiction: Can Books Save the Planet?
The American Southwest has been decimated by drought. Nevada and Arizona skirmish over dwindling shares of the Colorado River, while California watches, deciding if it should just take the whole river...
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How to See Invisible Infrastructure
“So what brings you to Atlanta?” the man at the Alamo rental car desk asked my friend Sam. We responded perhaps more eagerly than necessary. “You know those markings you’ll see on the sidewalk that...
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The Paradox of Time Capsules
Few consumer experiences deliver a pleasure as pure as breaking a freshness seal. From instant coffee to children’s vitamins, there’s something quasi-mystical about being the first encounter a vacuum....
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Should Everyone Get to See Body Camera Video?
Since the technology debuted on the national stage last August, one of the most critical questions asked of police departments adopting body cameras has been: Who gets to see? If a police officer has a...
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The Smithsonian Raises $700,000 on Kickstarter to Save Neil Armstrong’s...
How much is Neil Armstrong’s spacesuit worth? If crowdsourcing is a good measure, more than $700,000. More than 9,000 people have donated that much to a Kickstarter campaign by the Smithsonian...
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3-D Printed Drugs Are Here
Over the past decade, 3-D printers have been hailed as changing everything from fashion to firearms. Now, they’re coming to the pharmaceutical business—or, at least, they seem to be. Earlier this...
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There Are No Rules in Love and Taxes
Read security news this past summer and you might notice a pattern. First, a U.S. government agency announces that it’s found a security breach and is investigating what occurred. Some time passes....
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Can Yelp Make Government Agencies Work Better?
Did you wait in an egregiously long line at your local passport office? Did a TSA agent get a little too frisky with his or her pat down before your last flight? The federal government now wants to...
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Facebook and the Personal Press Release
Facebook products never quite die; they just get shelved in ever more distant menus. Such was the case with Notes, the simple blogging software that has lingered in the nether regions of the social...
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The Hidden Bias of Science’s Universal Language
Newton’s Principia Mathematica was written in Latin; Einstein’s first influential papers were written in German; Marie Curie’s work was published in French. Yet today, most scientific research around...
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Air-Conditioning From Outer Space
Alarms were going off on the International Space Station. Mission control put emergency procedures into action. Up in space, astronauts were being evacuated from different modules and forced to camp...
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