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Why Do Generation X Americans Not Care About Climate Change?
Among Americans who grew up on MTV and grunge, a campaign of disinformation has created deep apathy about our warming planet. Tim McDonnell Generation Xers grew up with MTV, Nirvana, and the dot-com...
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A Visit to the World's Most Remote Antarctic Outposts With Google 'Street' View
Cold weather has preserved the huts of early South Pole explorers for a century. Now you can visit these time capsules online. Wikimedia Commons About a hundred years ago, Robert Falcon Scott sat at a...
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How the Gorgeous, Sometimes Fictional Sound of the Olympics Gets Made
The audio from your favorite events isn't real. It's much better than real. An Olympic archer (Reuters/Alexis Madrigal editing).When the London 2012 Olympics begin in a couple of weeks, a menagerie of...
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Kate Middleton Said No to Your Cover? No Problem, There's Photoshop!
Marie Claire's amazing "fan-art tribute" to the princess So let's say you're Marie Claire. Being a fashion magazine, you'd really, really love to feature Kate Middleton -- princess, trend-setter,...
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Why Some Physicists Bet Against the Higgs Boson
After Stephen Hawking conceded that he'd lost his bet about the Higgs boson, I wondered why he had been on the wrong side of the bet. Why had he doubted the existence of a particle widely assumed to be...
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Statistical Probability That Mitt Romney's New Twitter Followers Are Just...
It is virtually impossible that the former governor's recent spike in Twitter followers resulted from normal activity on the social network. Reuters. Last week Zach Green of 140Elect, noticed some...
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The Speed of Sound Is Too Slow for Olympic Athletes
Sprinters in the position farthest from the pistols were getting slower start times, so organizers switched to an electronic tone. The speakers behind each athlete that will "play" the pistols starting...
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Yes, Twitter Banning a Journalist for Heckling NBC Really Was That Bad
A misstep reveals that the company doesn't understand its outsized role in the media ecosystem. Update: Twitter's general counsel, Alex Macgillivray released a blog post explaining Twitter's policy and...
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News Outlets: Only You Can Prevent Spoilers
Here is a classy way to break news of Olympic victory: And here are a few examples of non-classy ways: Just kidding. I'm not going to do that to you, in part because I too am avoiding what lies on the...
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The Power of Internet Censorship, in 1 Chart
Sometime late in the evening of July 28, Twitter suspended the account of journalist and NBC naysayer Guy Adams. Earlier today, with apologies from Twitter's lawyer to Adams, the service reinstated his...
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Earth From Space: Two Years of Waves Dancing
NASA This is a map of waves dancing. Not a photograph, but a visualization, this image depicts surface ocean currents Kuroshio Current from June 2005 to December 2007. The Kuroshio Current functions in...
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Maps: The States Where Fracking Can Happen in Secret
A new analysis by the Natural Resources Defense Council shows that the majority of states where fracking occurs have no disclosure laws at all, and that those that do are woefully behind when it comes...
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Take My Money, Please! The Strange Case of Free Web Services
Is it just that companies don't want to take on the obligations to the customer that come from selling a service?kevin dooley/FlickrWhy won't companies that provide online services take my money? As a...
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Siri, Take This Down: Will Voice Control Shape Our Writing?
Do our writing means change our written ends?In the future, you will talk to your computer. Voice, the predominant mode of human-to-human communication, has been migrating to silicon for more than a...
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The One Thing You Need to Know About the Relaunch of Digg
The site is already trying to surprise -- and delight -- its users. Digg Here, in case you haven't been following it, is Digg's story in a nutshell: The social news site was big in the early days of...
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Why Are Banner Ads All Over the Web, If No One Likes Them?
An explanation in two sentences. Banner ads are a weird thing. Many advertisers wish they worked better. Many publishers wish they sold better. Readers wish they didn't exist, or at least looked...
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Does Space Make Astronauts (More Than Literally) High?
In this latest installment of the Science off the Sphere series, astronaut Don Pettit is so excited about the physics of water in microgravity that it almost makes you wonder if there's something in...
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Two Decades of the Olympics, Two Big Lessons About the Media
A worker installs television wires at the London 2012 Olympic park. (Reuters) Broadcast through commercial deals or available free online, the Olympics are a truly rare global media event: They focus...
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The Technological Evolution of the Modern Olympic Torch
An animated video from the Ontario Science Centre explains how the Olympic flame came to be weatherproof, safe, and of course, photogenic. In recent years, the torch relay has made it to such exotic...
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That Weird Tape Olympians Have on Their Bodies: Does It Do Anything?
Not for their muscles, but maybe for their minds.Gold medalist He Zi wearing what appears to be k tape (Reuters).If you've been watching the Olympics (or a bunch of other sports), you've probably seen...
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