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The Sandy Storm Surge: Is This What Climate Change Will Look Like?
Sandy caused sea levels in parts of the city to rise 13 feet. Climate change scientists say sea levels in New York and elsewhere may rise the same amount by 2200. From what we know at this point, it...
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Is There Life Beyond Earth? 'I Think Absolutely,' Says NASA JPL Director
"We have the same laws of chemistry, physics. If there are any locations where there are the basic ingredients, there should be the basic ingredients for life." NASA Charles Elachi, Director of the...
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The Robot That Could Help People Walk Again
Today Matt Tillford walked across the stage at The Atlantic's Big Science Summit. So what? Tillford has been paralyzed since a 2007 car crash.Ekso Bionics/Flickr Matt Tilford is standing on stage at...
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The Devastated New Jersey Coastline, as Seen From a Black Hawk Helicopter
More evidence of the humanity of video Like Becca said: Sometimes you just need video. And not only because, video production being what it is, videos are harder to falsify than still photos. Part of...
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Will Sandy Change How We Talk About Climate Change?
The outlook is not good. Alex Tingle This year -- the year of record-setting Arctic sea ice melt, extreme drought, nasty wildfires, and, of course, the presidential election -- has not exactly been a...
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The Challenges of 'Keeping House in Outer Space': Carbon Dioxide,...
And what they tell us about scientific progressNASA "The solar system is not a friendly place," warned Dr. Charles Elachi, Director of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of...
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The Automation of Our Skies: How Computers Could Resolve Flight Delays
Instead of having humans manually adjust flight schedules and routes, we should design weather-data fueled software do the task. Reuters Three-quarters of flight delays are due to weather. While we...
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In a Race Between a Self-Driving Car and a Pro Race-Car Driver, Who Wins?
Humans, but only by a few measly seconds. AP A self-driving car and a seasoned race-car driver each speed around Northern California's three-mile Thunderhill Raceway loop. Which car will get the...
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Here Is the First Book Ever Ordered on Amazon
... And the packing slip that came with it. The first Amazon-ordered book with the first Amazon-provided packing slip. Look at that logo! (John Wainwright via Quora) One of the benefits of being an...
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One Way to Create American Jobs: Fix Our 5 Million Tons of Out-of-Use...
We're not only letting 75 percent of our old electronics go to waste, we're also wasting an opportunity to rebuild the domestic electronics industry. yahzteen/Flickr Despite increases in recycling...
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The Charred Remnants of a Breezy Point Neighborhood
"I think we all can agree we're seeing complete and utter devastation." "I think we all can agree we're seeing complete and utter devastation," Brendan Gallagher says, standing in front of the charred...
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If You Can't Beat 'Em, Subvert 'Em: Countering Misinformation on the Viral Web
Our information networks no longer even try to optimize for truth. Here's how we worked with the imperfect system. First came the fakes. Old storm photos dredged up and labeled Sandy. Photoshopped...
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The Moment the Lights Went Out in New York
A time-lapse video of Sandy as the storm pummels the city This is pretty much what time-lapse photography was made for. As Sandy swept toward and then through New York City, a camera on top of 2...
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Noam Chomsky on Where Artificial Intelligence Went Wrong
An extended conversation with the legendary linguist Graham Gordon Ramsay If one were to rank a list of civilization's greatest and most elusive intellectual challenges, the problem of "decoding"...
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Credit Where It's Due: I Love the New Gmail Design
A new compose window makes writing emails much smoother. Remember a few months ago, when I went on a whiny rant called, "What Went Wrong With Gmail?" In it, I accused the company of messing with a user...
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See the Destruction of New Jersey's Coastline on an Interactive Map
Aerial photos from NOAA of a devastated state Google/NOAA via NOAA's Facebook page If the ground-level perspective of the post-Sandy New Jersey coastline can break your heart, the aerial view can melt...
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How to Tweet Responsibly During a Breaking-News Event
Yes, people put out false information and tweet incorrect things during major news events. There are ways to avoid being one of them. Since Monday night's tweeting on Hurricane Sandy, there's been a...
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The Post-Charismatic Organization: Another Sign That the Steve Jobs Era Is...
Turbulence in the company's design wing may be good news for users. Scott Forstall with Apple CEO Tim Cook in June. (Stephen Lam/Reuters) A New York Times report presents the background of the...
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Astronomers Read the Shadows of the Universe's Earliest Stars
Their guide? All the light "from all of the stars that have ever shone" Star-field nebula (Shutterstock/justdd) If we'reĀ stardust, and if we'reĀ golden, we're now just a little bit closer to...
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The Skirmish That Could Threaten Google News
Brazilian news organizations that have pulled out of the service say they aren't hurting much. What if others follow suit? Schmidt and Hollande met at the Elysee Palace on the 29th. (Reuters) What if...
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