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How Science Changes
An interview with Samuel Arbesman, author of The Half-Life of Facts Dim Dimich/Shutterstock/Rebecca J. Rosen In 1947 a mathematician named Derek J. de Solla Price came to Raffles College in Singapore...
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The Pope Has Tweeted
The leader of the world's Catholics has sent his first messages to his hundreds of thousands of (Twitter) followers. Earlier this month, the Vatican revealed the Pope's official Twitter account,...
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Google's Look Back on 2012 Will Warm Your Heart, Give You Feelings
Ah the memories What we Google is a pretty good mark these days of who we are -- what intrigues us, moves us, what we care about. In its end-of-year review, Google builds a story of 2012 out of the...
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Picture 2012: An Israeli Drone at a Swiss Air Base
We're looking back at the photos that defined the sociotechnical changes of the year. An Israel Aero Space Industries (IAI) Heron 1 unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) stands on the tarmac during a media...
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Big Changes Coming to Facebook's Privacy Controls
The company is trying to make users feel more in control of their posts, all in the name of getting people to share more (and more!). Facebook Today Facebook is announcing a series of improvements to...
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55555, or, How to Laugh Online in Other Languages
Haaaaaaaaaaaahahahahaha. Or www. Or jajaja. Or MDR. ARENA Creative Imagine you and I are chatting somewhere and sometime on the Internet. Imagine that, in the course of our conversation, I -- and this...
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'Change or Die!': The History of the Innovator's Aphorism
Few aphorisms so pithily capture the ethos of contemporary technoscience. Here's the story of how it gained popularity. Advertisement from Electronic Design, 1970 A sure sign that an idiom has become a...
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Behold: The Largest Iceberg Breakup Ever Caught on Film
The effects of climate change, in one gorgeous, terrifying video So, wow. Wowwowwow. A group of filmmakers, making a movie called, aptly, Chasing Ice, have captured what they claim to be the largest...
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Time to Upgrade to iOS 6: The Google Maps App Is Now Available for the iPhone
Hallelujah! Google just sent word that Google's hotly anticipated maps app for iOS is now available in the iTunes store. Oh, and it's got voice-guided turn-by-turn directions, among other features.Let...
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Why Google Maps Is Better Than Apple Maps
There's a simple answer: people. For all of Google's reputation as a data-data-data company, the company's famed mapping product, which arrived on iOS early this morning, is good for a different...
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What It Looks Like When a Jet Drops a Bomb on Your Town
You never imagine it happens on a sunny day. In this footage from Homs, Syria, a man trains a camera on a government jet flying overhead as it drops a bomb on his town no more than a mile from where...
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Rejoice! The End of Ads That Yell at You
Lowered volumes are only the beginning of a shift toward kinder, friendlier commercials. YouTube and The Atlantic If you have ever found yourself watching television between the heady hours of 5 and...
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Scientists Believe This Is the Oldest Object We Have Ever Seen
A new survey from Hubble has found seven galaxies that formed not long after the Big Bang (in the scheme of things). NASA It may not look like much, but that little spot of brightness is a picture of...
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The CEO of America's Biggest Solar Maker Doesn't Believe in Distributed...
Which just so happens to be a key plank in most greens' vision of the energy future.What 1.3 million First Solar modules look like at the Sarnia Solar Farm in Ontario, Canada (First Solar)File this...
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The 5 Most Disruptive Technologies of 2012
Gesture-based interfaces, autonomous cars, and super-cheap tablets are all poised to remake our world. Google CEO Sergei Brin can't hear you; his Glasses are tuned to a Hangout. (AP) The most...
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NASA Patiently Explains Why the Mayan Apocalypse Is *Definitely* Not Happening
"December 22, 2012. If you're watching this video, it means one thing: the world didn't end yesterday," this video begins. Yes, NASA is so confident the world won't end that they released the video...
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40 Years Ago, Humans Took Their Final Steps on the Moon
Forty years ago today, beginning just after 5:00 p.m. Eastern Standard Time, men took humanity's final steps on the moon. Apollo 17, the mission that sent them to make those strides, is notable not...
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Picture 2012: Farewell Neil Armstrong
We're looking back at the photos that defined the sociotechnical changes of the year. NASA On August 25 of this year, Neil Armstrong, the first human to step onto the moon, passed away. He was 82. In a...
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How the UN's 'Game-Changing' Internet Treaty Failed
German delegates on the fourth day of the 12-day-long World Conference on International Telecommunications (ITU/Flickr) Did you know that, for the past two weeks, the future of the Internet has been...
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Why Taking Breaks Will Help You Get More Work Done
The latest thinking in the science of productivity, animated The most elite musicians in the world don't necessarily spend more time practicing their craft than their less-accomplished peers. Instead,...
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