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Mini Object Lesson: The Pregnancy Test as Plot Device
Night in the suburbs. Home late, Adam drops his jacket on the couch and informs his wife, Kristina, that he’s been fired. She tries to comfort him, but he retreats to the backyard to rummage the trash...
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Wondering Why We Like Fresno?
For previous installments in the Fresno saga, please check here. Early last year, in our American Futures saga, we reported on Bitwise, a tech incubator, training school, entrepreneur center, and...
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This Month's Must-Reads: Science, Technology, and Health
A small region of the Omega Nebula, located about 5,500 light-years away, photographed by the Hubble Space Telescope J. Hester / NASA / ESAHere’s our latest monthly collection of original, weird,...
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On a Scale of 1 to 10, Silicon Valley's Lack of Racial Diversity Is a 7
Robert Galbraith / Reuters / Zak Bickel / The AtlanticHearing from the leaders of the tech world is always revealing, and very often surprising. In our second annual Silicon Valley Insiders Poll, a...
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The Decay of Twitter
Some whales never make it back to the ocean: “The Whale Beached between Scheveningen and Katwijk, with Elegant Sightseers,” by the Dutch painter Esaias van de Velde. WikimediaOn Tuesday, Twitter Inc....
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How Many Photographs of You Are Out There In the World?
Tourists taking photos at Trafalgar Square, London Paul Hackett / ReutersMost of us probably have one weird question that consumes them. No? Okay, well, I do. A lot of places I go, people I don’t know...
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The Room Where the Internet Was Born
Sam KronickStarting a cross-country drive to New York in Los Angeles is pretty inconvenient, unless your cross-country drive is also a vision quest to see the Internet. More specifically, we'd been...
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China Launches the C919! Should Boeing and Airbus Look Out?
The first Chinese C919 airliner, making its debut in Shanghai on November 2, 2015. (China Daily / Reuters) Today the long-planned Chinese rival to Boeing and Airbus, the C919, made its debut in...
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The Woman Who Tweets Cheetahs
James Temple / Flickr I’ve seen this sequence time and again in any number of wildlife documentaries: There’s a cheetah. It stalks a gazelle, body slung low, shoulder blades pumping like pistons. It...
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People's Deepest, Darkest Google Searches Are Being Used Against Them
Beck Diefenbach / ReutersGoogle knows the questions that people wouldn’t dare ask aloud, and it silently offers reams of answers. But it is a mistake to think of a search engine as an oracle for...
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Why Japan Is Building a Fleet of ‘Robot Taxis’
Yuya Shino / ReutersJapan is planning to use the 2020 Tokyo Olympics as an opportunity to show the world it’s still a tech leader. One of those efforts—if the technology and regulatory clearances shape...
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Could the Sony Hack Happen at Other Tech Firms?
Elias Stein / Zak Bickel / The AtlanticHearing from the leaders of the tech world is always revealing, and very often surprising. In our second annual Silicon Valley Insiders Poll, a panel of 101...
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The Chilling Regularity of Mass Extinctions
An artist's rendering of an asteroid or comet striking Earth. Andrea Danti / ShutterstockOne thing we know for sure is that conditions on Earth were, shall we say, unpleasant for the dinosaurs at the...
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Twitter Unfaves Itself
Goodbye, stars. Boston Public LibraryOn Tuesday, exactly a week after announcing dreadful quarterly earnings, cataclysm struck Twitter. The company was not hacked, nor did it suffer a mass user exodus....
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In Defense of Civility on Twitter
Dado Ruvic / ReutersIn his article on Twitter and the obstacles that it faces, my colleague Robinson Meyer persuasively argues that many people are alienated by the notion of speaking conversationally...
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What People Mean When They Talk About ‘The Cloud’
KFOR-TV / APIt turns out driving directly toward huge, looming storm clouds is a great rhetorical device to employ on a road trip to see cloud infrastructure—and also a great way to be faced with the...
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How Google Plays Whac-A-Mole With Shady Advertisers
Google co-founder Sergey Brin Elijah Nouvelage / ReutersHow much of a responsibility does the Internet’s gatekeeper have to protect the people who pass through its doors?That’s the question that faces...
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What Will Become of Grantland's Archives?
One of Grantland's classics, a 2013 article about race and television. Grantland ScreenshotWhen a website is in its death throes, the preservationists at the Internet Archive don’t waste any time. The...
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The Two-Stroke Engine: A Remnant of Poor-Country Technology in Rich Countries
In response to the item immediately below, which kicked off this Thread, I’ve gotten reports from different corners of the country. My intention with the thread-organization here is to have a running...
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What Technology Should Be Un-Invented?
Rashid Umar Abbasi / Reuters / Zak Bickel / The AtlanticHearing from the leaders of the tech world is always revealing, and very often surprising. In our second annual Silicon Valley Insiders Poll, a...
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