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The Surprisingly Awesome Sound of 156 Office Machines from the 60s
A 156-second symphony honoring the sounds of the mid-century workplace.The modern machine aims to be silent. The MacBook Air, eschewing the noisy optical and hard drives of yore, is a perfect example:...
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Moon Rocks From Apollo 11 Are Discovered in Minnesota National Guard Storage...
Most of the lunar rocks given away following the Apollo 11 and 17 missions have gone unaccounted for and periodically turn up in weird places. NASA When Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins...
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Today's Heartbreak-of-Hacked-Email Saga
I regret to say that every day I get a message or two like the one below. "Regret" because of the churn and hassle the people who write are going through; regret because I generally intend to do...
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Dizzy Hamsters, Cute Kids, and Chivalrous Strangers: The Internet's Best...
A lively discussion on the social curation site, Reddit, has produced a list of videos that will cheer you up on this rainy day. SesameStreet/YouTube In the middle of the night, Reddit user f_humanity...
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In China, 25 Million People Use Only Their Cell Phones to Read Books
Mobile reading may revive entire genres of literature, such as mid-length novels and poems, which have fallen out of favor.Reuters On vacation in China earlier this month, I stopped by Shanghai's...
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The Importance of Solar Software
When Silicon Valley's old obsession meets one of its newer ones. The Atlantic's Alexis Madrigal in conversation with industry entrepreneurs shaping our future. See full coverage Clean Power Finance...
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Are Your Facebook Friends Stressing You Out? (Yes.)
Facebook's expectations about users' social lives can be very different from users' own. Shutterstock/Lichtmeister Your (Facebook) friends may be stressing you out. And the more you have, the more...
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The Empire State Building Becomes an Art Installation
A new lighting system adds motion to the tradition of the "Tower Lights." Phillips recently gave a large gift to the Empire State Building: a dynamic LED system that would allow the iconic skyscraper's...
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What If NASA Could Figure Out the Math of a Workable Warp Drive?
A new line of research hopes to drastically reduce the amount of energy required for warping space-time, and get us to Alpha Centauri in just two weeks time. Alpha, Beta, and Proxima Centauri...
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Berkshire Hathaway's Website Basically Hasn't Changed Since the Year 2000
A trip through the HTML time machine that is Warren Buffett's company's website.You expect some weird things out of Berkshire Hathaway. Helmed by that quirky billionaire Warren Buffett, he of the...
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Ultra Slo-Mo Video: Cheetahs Are the Best Machines
Nothing, just nothing, can match the mechanical grace and force of a cheetah running at full speed. When it comes to mechanical design, evolution still has human ingenuity beat. Compare, for example,...
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The Campaign Tumblr Is Dead! (Long Live the Campaign Tumblr!)
Obama for America's outbound director on the origin, and future, of the first presidential campaign Tumblr White House Flickr, Pete Souza, via barackobama.tumblr.com The president was not impressed....
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Where 'Cubicle' Is a Dirty Word: The Wacky Workspaces of Silicon Valley
Many tech offices aren't just places of work, as I describe in the December issue of The Atlantic. They're also places of social interaction and aesthetic experimentation and commercial advertisement,...
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Why People Really Love Technology: An Interview with Genevieve Bell
Joi/Flickr The thing I love about Intel researcher Genevieve Bell is that she finds surprising things by looking at what's left out of the dominant narratives about technology. She finds data that's...
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The Internet Is Down in Syria
A hefty -- and scary -- percentage of the Internet in Syria seems to be down at the moment. Per the global Internet monitor Renesys, "77 networks experienced an outage in Syria starting at 10:26 UTC on...
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What DNA Actually Looks Like
Scientists have developed a new method of imaging the building blocks of life. It involves an electron microscope and a bed of nails. Just to be clear, it doesn't really look like this....
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Hey, I Need to Talk to You About This Brilliant Obama Email Scheme
Oh good, you clicked! Don't thank me. Thank the Obama campaign and its genius tinker-tailor-subject-line operation.The Obama campaign raised $690 million online. The majority of it came from the...
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One for the Kids: Houdini's Copy of the Book of 'Scientific Amusements'
A relic from the age when the magic of the fundamental properties of the universe was embedded in the everyday. Harry Houdini liked a good science experiment. He was a magician, yes, and an escape...
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How Can There Be Water Ice on Mercury, Which Is Right Next to the Sun?
A hot planet, NASA just announced, hosts cold -- very cold -- water. Ice, ice, baby! This 68-mile-diameter indented crater, located in the north polar region of Mercury, has been shown to harbor water...
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The First Time Humans Saw the Structure of DNA
The story of the photograph that revealed the geometry upon which all life is based Enzo di Fabrizio via New Scientist There are few mysteries that even approach that of life -- where it comes from,...
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