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The Invisible Worlds All Around Us
Imagine the world before the microscope.From Robert Hooke's "Micrographia" Imagine that all humans knew about the world around them was what they could see with their naked eyes. Imagine a world...
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Suddenly My Financial Problems Are Over
From the inbox -- actually, my wife's email inbox. Fortunately we live in a community-property state. From: Date: Sun, Feb 24, 2013 at 10:38 AMSubject: MGHTo: DxxxThe Microsoft is glad to pronounce you...
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What a 400-Year-Old Bean Reveals About the Renaissance
We can thank the Vatican's 16th-century fresco painters for a food-history find. Raphael's Fire in the Borgo (Wikimedia Commons) Occasionally the tangents of a major newspaper article are at least as...
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How Much YouTube Do Employees Really Watch at Work?
J.C. Penney employees are reported to have watched five million YouTube videos from the office during the month of January. Reuters The number of YouTube videos employees watch is not exactly the kind...
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9 New Ways to Sit in the Office, Thanks to Smartphones and Tablets
Mobile computing has changed the way we communicate, the way we work ... and the way we lounge. The nine new postures invented by hand-held devices (Steelcase) The workplace most of us are accustomed...
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Time-Lapse Video Like You've Never Seen It: Breathtaking Infrared
In Karst Country, the video below, Glen Ryan takes the tried-and-true nature time-lapse to a new level, using infrared filters to photograph invisible wavelengths of light. The result is a gorgeous...
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Why Does Privacy Matter? One Scholar's Answer
If we want to protect privacy, we should be more clear about why it is important. Neo_II/Flickr/Rebecca J. Rosen Our privacy is now at risk in unprecedented ways, but, sadly, the legal system is...
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A Network of Nuclear-Detection Sites All Around the World Recorded the Sound...
Monitoring stations normally used to keep tabs on the nuclear tests of regimes like North Korea's captured the arrival of a rock from outer space. NASA/YouTube On the morning of February 15, a rock...
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The Enduring Myth of the 'Free' Internet
We somehow have come to believe that information is free, but people with Internet access pay substantial sums to get it -- sums many can't afford. Fashion My Phone/Flickr The mantra of a "free"...
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Could Better Syringes Reduce HIV Transmission?
The designers of a low-dead-space syringe hope that their innovation could hamper the disease's spread among the estimated 15.9 million people who inject drugs worldwide. William A. Zule et...
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Meet the Former NASA Scientist Who's Teaching Coloradans How to Grow...
Dale J. Chamberlain's High Altitude School of Hydroponics (HASH) courses are specifically designed to comply with Colorado's new cannabis law. High Altitude School of Hydroponics Even though Colorado...
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Inside the Military's Clean-Energy Revolution
Damn the deniers, the doubters, and the do-nothing Congress. The Pentagon is moving full green ahead. Frank Stockton I'm strapped into my backward-facing seat on a COD, or "carrier onboard delivery"...
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Here Comes the Parade of Computing Interfaces That Want to Replace the...
Over the next six months or so, we're going to see an explosion of new ways of interacting with computers, televisions, and mobile devices. The Leap Motion controller next to an iPhone 4S. Look how...
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A Medical Lab in Your Smartphone
A new app is "trying to democratize healthcare" -- in this case, through urinalysis. uChek The digital age has made what was was once obscure visible. In ways we never could before, we can quantify the...
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Behold, the Kindle of the 16th Century
Just one of the "various and ingenious machines" of Captain Agostino Ramelli Le diverse et artificiose machine del Capitano Agostino Ramelli, via Wikimedia Commons One of the defining features of...
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A Pocket History of Bottle Recycling
A story of trash and class in America Redemption The Academy Award-nominated short documentary Redemption (2013) may not have won an Oscar statue in the end, but it remains a powerful introduction to...
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Imagine an Aircraft Carrier Made Out of ... Robots
Next up: autonomous boats for maritime disasters Imagine that there's another oil spill along the lines of BP-in-the-Gulf. Imagine that our relief work following the disaster could be waged not just...
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How a Community College Dropout Discovered an Unknown Climate Hazard Right...
Bob Ackley has shown that America's cities are peppered with gas leaks -- so many that some scientists now believe that natural gas may be accelerating climate change in a way that few had ever...
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Mt. Etna Erupted, and Astronauts Were There to Take Pictures
Earth's fires, captured from space Mount Etna spews volcanic ash during an eruption on the southern Italian island of Sicily on April 1, 2012. (Reuters) Mt. Etna is the tallest active volcano in...
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Baby Monitor of the Future? MIT Scientists Create Program That Makes a...
By dramatizing subtle changes, new software makes it possible to see motions that are normally imperceptible to us. Four frames taken from a video, before and after processing (MIT) For many new...
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