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General McChrystal on Drones: 'They Are Hated on a Visceral Level'
Even the man who pioneered the use of drones in Afghanistan worries about them.A German drone (Reuters).General Stanley McChrystal cautioned about the use of drones in a recent interview with Reuters....
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Remind Me Not to Buy This Fork That Keeps You From Eating
This gizmo gets my prize for most horrifying/fascinating thing to come out of the Consumer Electronics Show. This gizmo gets my prize for most horrifying/fascinating thing to come out of the Consumer...
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The Paradox of GIF-iti: Street Art You Can See Only Online
An artist's quest to make art tailored to the Internet, in the physical spaces of modern Los Angeles, London, and Newcastle INSA/UNGA That up there might look like some very cool but not particularly...
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You Probably Write a Novel's Worth of Email Every Year
The Great Gatsby, sitting in your outbox Shutterstock/Ninell and The Atlantic So we know that the average worker spends 13 hours a week -- 28 percent of office time -- on email. Which multiplies out to...
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As Seen From Space: Photos of the Australian Wildfires
Dangerous wildfires across Tasmania and New South Wales, shown in pictures sent to Earth from the International Space Station Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield today sends back to Earth a devastating...
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Tongue and Tech: The Many Emotions for Which English Has No Words
Among them is the German backpfeifengesicht, "a face badly in need of a fist" Pei-Ying Lin via PopSci You know that sorry state of affairs that is actually looking worse after a haircut? Or the urge to...
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Nate Silver: 'There Should Be a Pulitzer Category' for Infographics
AP This afternoon, Nate Silver -- blogger, pundit, hero of nerds everywhere -- did a reddit AMA. You should read the whole thing, because it's really good, and because it's not terribly long, but...
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When Stephen Hawking Went to the White House
White House On August 12th, 2009, President Obama awarded the Medal of Freedom to Stephen Hawking. "From his wheelchair he's led us on a journey to the farthest and strangest reaches of the cosmos,"...
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This Is What It Looks Like When Dolphins 'Stampede'
Spoiler: It looks awesome. Once in a while, very -- very -- rarely, dolphins will abandon their standard serenity and go on a romp that we humans refer to, aptly, as a "stampede." The phenomenon,...
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iPhone's Ansel Adams: Photographing the American West
Kevin Russ's work proves the maxim that the best camera is the one you have with you. Kevin Russ Kevin Russ, a professional photographer, has amassed more than 13,000 followers on Instagram thanks to...
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Astronomers Reckon There Are 17 Billion Earth-Size Planets in Our Galaxy Alone
Planets, planets, everywhere, and all the distances didn't shrink. Planets, planets, everywhere, nor any warp drive we can think (of). Artist's conception of Kepler-10b, the first confirmed...
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A Grand Plan to Make Silicon Valley Into An Urban Paradise
Maybe the suburban land of the tech giants could become a thriving dense metropolis.An early BART concept sketch (Scanned by Eric Fischer).Ken Layne has an intriguing suggestion about my beloved metro...
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Google Keeps Its Renewable Energy Investments Going
While Washington's support for green things rises and falls every twelve months or so, some corporations have had less up-and-down interest in renewable energy. Google, which closed a $200 million...
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The Year's Flu Season Is the Worst in a Long Time, Google GIF Edition
Stock up on the Pedialyte and Kleenex, while you still can.Data by Google, GIFing by Alexis Madrigal.Look out world, this year's flu season is nasty. For the past six flu seasons, Google has predicted...
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How Monopoly Games Helped Allied POWs Escape During World War II
Even trivial changes to a trivial board game can shift the course of history. muurkrant.nl via snopes One of the charms of Monopoly is its insistent iconography: the quaint little board, with its...
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The Best Aerial Image of New York City You'll Ever See
Ok, technically, it's a stitched-together panorama, but just look at it. Click to enlarge it. This is a great image of a city that seems designed to bring great images into being. Sergey Semonov, a...
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Starting Now: Live Coverage of the 'Doomsday Asteroid' Flying by Earth
See the thing pass us by -- for free, on the Internet. An artist's rendering of an asteroid, or near-Earth object, like Apophis (ESA - P.Carril) The asteroid Apophis has long been referred to as the...
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Facebook 'Friends,' and Why We Should Lose the Scare Quotes
With every click on Facebook, you leave a little trail of your social life. Now researchers are saying they can piece those clues together, and pick out who your closest friends are. Library of...
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Technology Porn for Book Lovers: A 1940s Guide to Printing
Letter by letter, line by line, page by page, an archival documentary from Encyclopaedia Britannica Films reveals how a manuscript becomes a book. Clunky machines mold words out of molten metal,...
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What Van Gogh's Famous Self-Portrait Looks Like as a Photograph
In a word: creepy. In another word: beautiful. What would a Van Gogh painting look like as a life-like image? What would Van Gogh himself look like -- not as a series of impressionistic swirls, but as...
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