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Obama's Facebook Fans Love Michelle; Romney's Love Winning
Some pretty wonderful data scraping reveals striking differences between the campaigns' Facebook audiences. The picture from Barack Obama's Facebook page that got the most "likes" this year -- nearly...
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Occupy Sandy Hacks Amazon's Wedding Registry (in a Good Way)
A group takes advantage of Amazon's gift registry to get donations to storm victims. Occupy Sandy isn't getting married. But it would like a gift all the same. The volunteer group -- an offshoot of...
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The New Math of Early Transportation
New Math is an attempt to quantify the world using words and basic math. #atlGallery .galleryNav { display:none;} #atlGallery .galleryHeader{ height:400px; border-width:0px; !important } #atlGallery...
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New Jersey to Allow Voting by Email (and Fax) for Residents Displaced by...
Anyone displaced by the hurricane just got declared an overseas voter AP Less than a week after the storm -- and just three days before Election Day -- New Jersey officials have announced that they...
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When the International Space Station Passes Over Your House, NASA Will Send...
Good news, space nerds! NASA will send ISS viewing info directly to you. This composite of 70 exposures shows the trail of the ISS (with gaps between exposures) as it moved left to right over the city...
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No 'Positive Detection' of Methane on Mars, NASA Announces
In a live broadcast, scientists said that they are yet to find any methane on the planet, which would have been a sign of possible microbial life. The apparently methane-free Gale Crater (NASA) In a...
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On a New York City Street, Post-Its Sent to Sandy
When the power's out, people make their own kind of social media. Gilad Lotan encountered this display on a New York street this morning: (Gilad Lotan/@gilgul) The makeshift mosaic is decorating the...
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Duly Noted: The Past, Present, and Future of Note-Taking
There's an art to our scribbles, and it's changing with our technology. Joe Biden's notes from the vice-presidential debate (AP) Ten years ago, as a reporter at a radio debate between then-Senator Joe...
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Vote for Darwin! Write-In Campaign for the Dead Scientist Garners Him 4,000...
In protest of their creationist congressional representative, voters in Athens-Clark County, Georgia, threw their weight behind the father of evolutionary biology. Darwin for Congress/Facebook Most...
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The Wright Brothers' Famous 1903 Flying Machine Patent Is Missing
Federal agents are searching for the patent and related documents, which no one is known to have seen since around 1980. NARA In March of 1903, the Wright brothers applied for a patent, swearing that...
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Where America's Racist Tweets Come From
Warning: The tweets are really, really racist. A map of the location quotients for racist tweets: the darker-green the state, the higher the location quotient (Floating Sheep) The day after Barack...
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David Petraeus Was Brought Down by ... Gmail
The CIA director's path to resignation began with some email messages. Reuters/Joshua Roberts While David Petraeus was still serving as a four-star general in the U.S. Army, he began exchanging emails...
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How Much Would You Pay to Never See an Online Ad Again?
AdTrap wants to help "make the Internet yours again." AdTrap Imagine a $120 box that sits between your cable modem (the box that brings the internet into your house) and your wireless router (the thing...
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'Scapple': Very Interesting New Software From the Creator of Scrivener
I'll spare you my whole speech about the inklings of another at-least-mini golden age of Interesting Software, especially though not only for the Mac. I consider Scrivener the single most useful...
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How Teachers Will Use E-Readers to Catch Cheaters
Tricks for catching plagiarizers online are old hat. But now teachers have ways to monitor the time it takes a student to read a text. Wikimedia Commons These are tough times for plagiarists and...
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The Places Where America's Drones Are Striking, Now on Instagram
The rural pockets of Yemen, Somalia, and Pakistan have never felt so close and so far away. Dronestagram So far this year the American military has launched more than 330 drone strikes in Afghanistan...
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Turning Gadget Lust Into Energy Efficiency
Nest is an awesome gadget that will over time pay for itself. The Atlantic's Alexis Madrigal in conversation with industry entrepreneurs shaping our future. See full coverage It would be hard to come...
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An Amazon Engineer Had a Little Idea That Turned Into a Billion-Dollar Business
Ten years ago, if asked what company would revolutionize computing, a book merchant with a tech edge probably did not come to mind. Reuters Once upon a time, Amazon was a dot-com-era technology company...
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Email Location Data Led to the Discovery of the Petraeus Affair
The nation's chief intelligence officer, "narc'd out" David Petraeus, at the time the Commander of the International Security Assistance Force/U.S. Forces in Afghanistan, shakes hands with Paula...
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Petraeus and Broadwell Used Their Counterterrorism Expertise to Hide Their...
The pair used a trick "known to terrorists and teenagers alike." Reuters/handout As more details emerge about the event that can fairly be called L'Affaire Petraeus, we're learning more about how the...
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