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The Chart That Explains Why Your New Year's Resolution Will (Probably) Fail
Sorry, but ... it probably will. Shutterstock/Y-tea So you spend the holiday season eating and drinking and and exercising only to the extent that eggnog ladles are heavy. And then, come New Year's...
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A Martian Dream: Here's What the Red Planet Would Look Like With Earth-Like...
Our planetary neighbor is a dusty, barren land. Here, it's re-imagined as a hospitable, wet globe, a bit like our own home. The Mars we all know and love/hate (NASA) What if instead of dust and rocks,...
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Happy New Year 2013, Starting With 'Future of Mapping'
For reasons planned and unplanned, I really did end up being out of electronic touch for a very long period, on a whole-family adventure. These past few days, rather than looking at a computer screen...
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Google's Michael Jones on How Maps Became Personal
In the past few years, the map has transformed from a static, stylized portrait of the Earth to a dynamic, interactive conversation. (An extended version of an interview from the January/February 2013...
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What Matters in Google's FTC Settlement: A Cheat Sheet
The king of search dodges a bullet. Google's executive chairman Eric Schmidt (Reuters) Following a 20-month investigation, the FTC today announced its settlement with Google over a variety of allegedly...
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What Andrew Sullivan's New Venture Could Teach Us About the Web
He hopes to prove that "an independent site, if tended to diligently, can grow an audience large enough to sustain it indefinitely." Before Andrew Sullivan got paid to host his blog at Time, The...
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Those Other Martian Rovers Celebrate 9 Years on the Red Planet
Curiosity can look up to its older, wiser cousins. An artist's rendering of the Spirit rover on Mars (NASA/JPL) On January 3, 2004, a vehicle the size of a golf cart, standing on six wheels and...
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The Day William Shatner Tweeted at an Astronaut (and the Astronaut Replied)
That day, my friends, is today. @williamshatner Yes, Standard Orbit, Captain. And we're detecting signs of life on the surface.-- Chris Hadfield (@Cmdr_Hadfield) January 3, 2013 So this just happened:...
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A Simple Suggestion to Help Phase Out All-Male Panels at Tech Conferences
Men: You can help fix this. Refuse to participate unless there are women on stage with you. Reuters Dear Men, Have you noticed that a lot of the time it just seems like, gosh, there are a lot of dudes...
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Captured in (Actual) Pictures: The Swirling Birth of Planets
Wow. Wow wow wow wow. The disc of gas and cosmic dust around the young star HD 142527. Visible are vast streams of gas flowing across the gap in the disc. The observations were made with the Atacama...
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The Letter Stanley Kubrick Wrote About IBM and HAL
The always-fascinating blog, Letters of Note, has released another wonderful bit of corporate correspondence. This time, they found a letter Stanley Kubrick sent to a production staffer about the...
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Could Human Enhancement Turn Soldiers Into Weapons That Violate International...
New technologies reveal ambiguities and hidden assumptions in international humanitarian law. Alexis C. Madrigal Science fiction, or actual U.S. military project? Half a world away from the...
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What the First CES Looked Like
Nowadays, the Consumer Electronics Show is a gargantuan event, complete with hundreds of thousands of feet of floorspace, thousands of companies, and more gadgets than you could shake a stick at, even...
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The Future of Cybersecurity Could Be Sitting in an Office in New Jersey
Meet CyberCity, the model train town hoping to keep your home safe from attack. The future of cybersecurity is 48 square feet wide. (SANS Institute via Fast CoExist) The Sans Institute was founded in...
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For Sale: NASA Launchpad, Gently Used
NASA's space shuttle program may be holding a going-out-of-business sale. REPI On July 20, 2011, at 5:57 a.m. EDT, the space shuttle Atlantis made its final touchdown on the runway of NASA's Kennedy...
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The Coolest-Looking Dolphin in the World
I've seen hundreds and hundreds of dolphins, mostly on two lucky trips out into the Monterey Bay. They were primarily common and bottlenose dolphins, the standard representatives of Delphic...
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The Age of Surgical Censorship
Iran's "smart" approach involves monitoring, rather than blocking, its citizens' use of social media. Customers use computers at an Internet cafe in Tehran on May 9, 2011. (Reuters) Iran, to put it...
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The Panel Pledge: A Follow-Up
A few reflections on a plan to help phase out all-male panels at science and tech conferences I'm sure it was *incredibly* difficult to find not one but two qualified women to speak on this panel. And,...
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Ranking the Worst and Less-Worse Social Media Titles
Maven. Ninja. Evangelist. Guru.These are the most popular names social media people give to themselves. We know this because B.L. Ochman at Ad Age counted the most-used social-media titles on Twitter....
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How Much of the Web Is Archived? Truth Is, We Don't Really Know
Somewhere between 35 and 90 percent of the web has at least one archived copy. That's a pretty big range. Yosemite James/Flickr Here's the challenge: new Internet is being made all the time....
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