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Gangnam Style Is Now the Third Most Popular YouTube Video Ever. Here Are...
Oh Psy! The Korean rapper who is responsible for inciting a global dance craze that is 2012's Macarena has entered elite territory. His 'Gangnam Style' video is now the third most-watched YouTube video...
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The Much-Needed and Sane Congressional Office That Gingrich Killed Off and We...
Our technological choices are becoming ever more complex. Don't you think our Senators and Representatives need some nonpartisan help?Office of Technology Assessment/Princeton University On October 13,...
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'Frankenstorm' Hurricane Sandy Looks Pretty Scary From Space
The International Space Station captured this view of the brewing storm on October 26. Orbiting Earth at an altitude of roughly 200-250 miles, the I.S.S. is in an ideal position to observe hurricanes...
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The Beautiful Blackboards at Quantum Physics Labs
An artist visits the world's premier quantum mechanics labs. Beauty ensues. "Momentum," displayed at the Wilmotte Gallery in London (Alejandro Guijarro) Blackboards, the legend goes, were invented by a...
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Cutting Silicon With a Proton Accelerator Instead of a Saw
Those proton accelerators aren't just good for particle physics anymore. All of the computer technology everywhere is built on chips. These chips are made of silicon that has been manufactured into the...
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What If We Didn't Know Hurricane Sandy Was Coming?
The New York Times reports that dying satellites threaten our ability to forecast storms in the years ahead. NASA It's no exaggeration that our ability to forecast storms saves lives and dollars every...
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Could Gangnam Style Be the First Video to 1 Billion Views? Yes, and by the...
Actually, maybe. The YouTube analytics company ChannelMeter sent over this chart, which covers the song/video's meteoric rise. Granted its main competitors are much older -- and this chart only shows...
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Why Sandy Has Meteorologists Scared in 4 Images
She's huge. She's strong and might get stronger. She's strange. She's directing the might of her storm surge right at New York City. Hurricane Sandy has already caused her first damage in New York: the...
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The Article That Predicted the New York Subway Storm Surge Problem
Sandy may flood New York's transportation system. Meet the Columbia risk researcher who told us this could happen last month.If you would like to see the definition of prescience, take a look at this...
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The Birth of Hurricane Sandy
NASA video: 10 days of storm development in 20 seconds Hurricane Sandy may be shaping up to be the worst storm in recent history. But it began life like all storms do: as a series of winds, breezing...
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The Webcams to Watch as Sandy Hits the East Coast
A list of cameras streaming the storm's landfall in New York City, Long Island, and along the Jersey Shore. AP/NOAA MORE FROM QUARTZ Hurricane Sandy Forces All U.S. Stock and Options Trading to Shut...
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As the East Coast Waits, NASA Watches: The Most Recent Picture of Sandy From...
This thing is huge. Captured but a few minutes ago by NASA and NOAA's joint GOES satellite, that there is Hurricane Sandy's massive reach, brought to you -- rapidly -- by the powers of the Internet...
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PSA: No TV? Watch the Weather Channel Live on YouTube
YouTube's live video streaming isn't just for corgis anymore. The Weather Channel is using the platform to broadcast their coverage of the storm as it approaches the New England coast and over 50,000...
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Sandy's Hemispheric Scale (in GIFs)
The storm might be a thousand miles across, but its impact across the earth is even larger than that. On most days, the simply named 'wind map, is a beautiful visualization of the nation's wind...
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It's Only October, and We're Running Out of Hurricane Names for the Year
Sandy is number 18 on a list of only 21 potential tropical cyclone names. Sandy prepares to make landfall on the Mid-Atlantic coast. (Google Crisis Map) In 1978, the World Meteorological Organization...
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The Complaints You've Made About Sandy-Hyping on Twitter and TV, E.B. White...
The hyperventilation of the emergency news cycle was not born with CNN or Twitter. Two men rowing along Union Avenue in Framingham, Massachusetts, following Hurricane Edna in September, 1954 (AP) In...
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InstaSnopes: Sorting the Real Sandy Photos from the Fakes
With Hurricane Sandy approaching the New York metro area, the nation's eyes are turning to its largest city. Photos of storms and flooding are popping up all over Twitter, and while many are real,...
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Dan Rather Showed the First Radar Image of a Hurricane on TV
... And he may have saved thousands of lives in the process. Hurricane Carla in September 1961, its eye visible on the Galveston WSR 57 radar. This was the first hurricane on radar to be broadcast on...
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Give Thanks for Goretex: The Rain Gear of Yore
Are your feet wet? Perhaps you need some "rainy-day shoes from China-land." What is there even to say about this gem from The Day Book, a Chicago-based paper, published on February 23, 1915? Better to...
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The Veracity of Video
Fake Sandy photos are a dime a dozen, but video footage is tougher to manipulate, and therefore more reliable. Yesterday in the hours leading up to the worst of the storm there was an epidemic of...
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