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Miami Wants to Be the Next Big Start-Up City
A look at how the city has become a center for tech, design, and innovation Miami is on a mission to become an international tech hub and a host of entrepreneurs -- from rookie startup founders to...
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Scientists Identify Drugs' Side Effects by Analyzing Search Data Collected...
A team of researchers has for the first time found a side effect of a common drug combination by looking at search queries. Andy Piatt/Shutterstock/Rebecca J. Rosen For doctors or patients who notice...
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What Does the Consumer Data Industry Know About You?
Ever been bankrupt? Expecting a child? A whole lot of information about who you are -- and what kind of consumer you are -- is for sale. Enjoy a bodice-ripping page-turner from time to time? You're on...
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What Teens Get About the Internet That Parents Don't
Parents more often than not have a negative view of the role of the Internet in learning, and young people almost always have a positive one. GuitarLessons365Song/YouTube My 15-year-old daughter has...
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There Is Little Hope Left of Keeping Global Temperature in the 'Safe' Zone
"The prospects of keeping climate change below that [two-degree goal] are fading away," says Pieter Tans, leader of NOAA's greenhouse-gas measurement team. Hawaii's Mauna Loa Observatory (AP) The...
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What Would Happen If the Earth Spun Backward?
Earlier this week, in honor of special guest Neil deGrasse Tyson, The Daily Show featured a new opening credit, fixing once (but not for all) the scientifically inaccurate globe that nightly graces the...
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We're Screwed: 11,000 Years' Worth of Climate Data Prove It
New research takes the deepest dive ever into historic climate records. Average global temperature over the last ~2,000 years. Note the massive uptick on the far right side. (Science) Back in 1999 Penn...
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The Best Fake Martian Story Ever: 'Mars Peopled by One Vast Thinking Vegetable'
Sure beats little green men. When people imagine Martians, they tend to think of variations on human life. Percival Lowell, expounding the theory that the mythical canals of Mars were created by...
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Trust, but Verify: What Facebook's Electronics Vending Machines Say About the...
Electronics vending machines show that Facebook trusts its employees to do the right thing. I'd heard tell that Facebook's IT department had scattered vending machines filled with headphones, power...
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In This Donkey Kong, Pauline Saves Mario
Just casually coding some feminism into Nintendo's heroic myths. Reflecting the mores and market dynamics of the videogame industry, Mario has always been the hero, the guy saving damsels in distress....
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The Best Intelligence Is Cyborg Intelligence
The best services arise from the combination of machine and human intelligences.Alexis MadrigalA quick pointer to today's A1 New York Times story on a phenomenon we've been following on this blog for...
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Does Food Taste the Same in Space?
No, at least not at first, says astronaut Chris Hadfield. Borscht soup in a tube, for consumption in space, on display at the Air and Space Museum in Washington (Wikimedia Commons) During a call-in...
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Interesting Software: Search Visualizer
I won't try to explain this but will just suggest that you give it a try. It's Search Visualizer, a web-based system that processes search results from Google and other search engines and displays them...
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Update: Ukrainian Military Dolphins Not Actually on the Loose
If you're swimming in the Black Sea, beware dolphins with weapons strapped to their heads. flickr/mr_t_in_dcUpdate! Sad news, friends. It turns out that one piece of the Ukrainian dolphin story is, in...
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Armed With Facebook 'Likes' Alone, Researchers Can Tell Your Race, Gender,...
But the deeper aspects of your personality remain hard to detect. Students in a health education class at Woodrow Wilson High School in Washington, DC, submit their personality problems to a panel,...
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How to Play Music by Electrocuting Veggies
In his latest video, Brooklyn-based artist j. viewz performs an electronic version of Massive Attack’s “Teardrop” using only vegetables. Well, not just vegetables, actually; with some grapes, kiwis,...
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Consider the Lobster Claw: Why a Twist on an Arcade Classic Delights and...
The joystick is seized. The claw is positioned within the lobster tank. It descends on your command. Are you sure you want to claim your prize? Arizona resident Nate Ferra loves liberating prizes from...
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Toward a Complex, Realistic, and Moral Tech Criticism
Evgeny Morozov's second book is a brilliant, confounding work of creative destruction. Evgeny Morozov delivering a lecture sponsored by Stanford's Program on Liberation Technology (Alexis Madrigal) in...
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Todays 'Google, How Could You?' Round-Up
Routine personal disclosure: many of my friends work at Google, as does one of my sons.Routine general disclosure: the world has been transformed, overwhelmingly for the better, by the tools Google...
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A Brief History of Applause, the 'Big Data' of the Ancient World
Once, people measured their leaders -- and themselves -- one clap at a time. The Dionysus Theater in Greece, from a German encyclopedia, 1891 (Wikimedia Commons) And then, suddenly, just when the...
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