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What Everybody Googled in 2015
Luke MacGregor / ReutersPeople love to google other people. That’s the main takeaway from Google’s annual list of the year’s most popular searches.But humans have dominated Google’s year-end roundup...
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Google, How Many Calories Are in This Bacon-Wrapped Deep-Dish Pizza?
Eating champion Matt Stonie competes in Nathan's Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest in Brooklyn, New York, in 2015. Andrew Kelly / ReutersIn the tens of thousands of Google searches that take place every...
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Our Action Figures, Ourselves
Elijah Catrone / APOn my desk are several action figures, ranging from the heroic (Superman) to the historic (Alexander the Great) to even the academic (Freud). But as long as I’ve owned them, these...
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The Environmental Toll of a Netflix Binge
Tanks containing coolant for servers at a Google Data center in Saint Ghislain, Belgium. Yves Herman / ReutersMy favorite part of highways in the American midwest are the wind turbines. Not so much the...
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Secrecy Shuts Down a National-Security Debate
Mike Blake / ReutersUpdated at 4:30 p.m. on December 16, 2015Although Tuesday night’s Republican debate had a heavy focus on national security, candidates devolved frequently into posturing and...
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An Unusual Way of Speaking, Yoda Has
A Yoda character used in Star Wars movies, photographed at the Discovery Store in Times Square, November, 2015 Carlo Allegri / ReutersWhen Luke Skywalker first encounters Yoda, it’s on a swampy planet...
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How to ‘Adopt’ the Poop Emoji
chrisjtse / FlickrHave a friend who loves typography or emoji, but hates material gifts of any kind?Now there’s a present for them.Starting this week, the Unicode Consortium will let donors “adopt” any...
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How Mobile Carriers Skirt Net-Neutrality Rules
Shannon Stapleton / ReutersOne of the most unfortunate misnomers of The Cloud as a metaphor for describing an increasingly networked society is not only that it perpetuates a fiction of an intangible...
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A New Kind of Landscape Photography
DigitalGlobeOn September 10, 2015, a satellite named WorldView-3 was whisking on its regular path from pole to pole, locked in orbit 400 miles above the eastern Pacific Ocean.WorldView-3 is one of the...
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Second Helpings: Delicious Journalism
Leona, 7, poses inside a labyrinth installation made up of 250,000 books in London, 2012. Olivia Harris / ReutersThis was a big year for The Atlantic’s coverage of science, technology, and health. We...
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High-Speed Internet Is a Luxury
A woman takes pictures with Nokia's Lumia 1020 in New York in 2013. Shannon Stapleton / ReutersMore people in the United States are connected to the Internet than ever before, but how they go online is...
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Murder Most Popular
Lisovskaya Natalia / The Picture Pantry / CorbisThere’s an old, callous journalistic proverb on news judgment: “If it bleeds, it leads.” In the hierarchy of story promotion, in other words, violence...
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The Future of Pets
Alvaro DominguezIn his 1915 guide to pets, Alpheus Hyatt Verrill, an American naturalist, lambasted the dog-keeping habits of his day. “There is no excuse for pampering, constant fondling, dressing up...
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Musk's Triumph: A Falcon 9 Rocket Lands Upright in Florida
A time-lapse image of the Falcon 9's vertical lift-off and landing SpaceXOn Monday evening, for the first time in aerospace history, a rocket took off vertically from its launchpad, pierced the...
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A Brief History of (Modern) Time
Suzanne Plunkett / ReutersIn January 1906, several thousand cotton-mill workers rioted on the outskirts of Bombay. Refusing to work at their looms, they pelted factories with rocks, their revolt soon...
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The Logo That Took Down a DARPA Surveillance Project
WikimediaIn February 2002, shortly after the terrorist attacks of 9/11, TheNew York Times published a story reporting that John Poindexter, the former national-security advisor to Ronald Reagan, had a...
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The Marijuana Breathalyzer’s Uncertain Future
ReutersMike Lynn is cautiously excited. A 49-year-old family man who lives in the Bay Area, Lynn has been an emergency-room doctor at Highland Hospital for most of two decades. His company, Hound Labs...
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Flying Business Class as a Millennial
Mary Altaffer / API flew business class for the first time in my life last week. It was an overnight, 10-hour flight for a work trip.STOP, do not click the comment button. I am not a luxurious person!...
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Why Aren’t Costa Rica’s Indigenous Students Graduating?
Graby, 13, studies at home while texting his friends. Graby is one of the few students who remain in the Yorkín high school. Diana Crandall TALAMANCA, COSTA RICA — In a globalized society where people...
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Slack Experiments With a Technological Solution to Work-Life Balance
David Goldman / APOne of the great features of Slack, the instant-messaging service many workplaces use, is how easy it can be to reach any colleague. For those on the receiving end of such “pings,”...
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