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Green Lifestyle Choices Don't Change the Systems That Make Fossil Fuels...
Reuters Fossil fuels don't care which brand of paper towel you use. They don't care whether you put bamboo flooring in your kitchen, or upcycled your coffee table. Frankly, your personal efforts to...
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What It's Like to Live on a Ship Sailing Through the Antarctic Ice
In the middle of February, a team of scientists set sail from McMurdo Station, Antarctica, for a two-month mission around the frigid waters. For the first week or so, they never saw the sun set --...
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Just the Systrom, Zuck, and Dorsey Quotes from Vanity Fair's Big Instagram Story
Reuters Kara Swisher has penned the definitive piece about how Facebook bought Instagram in the latest issue of Vanity Fair. The story is packed with context, drama, and detail as Swisher shows again...
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Inside the Internet Archive
You'll find wonderful things surfing the pages of the Internet Archive, an online library of millions of books, films, audio recordings, web pages, and more. You can watch what might be the oldest...
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Yes, Unconventional Fossil Fuels Are That Big of a Deal
Bakken shale (Reuters). I was surprised by Chris Nelder's comments about my article. Much of what he writes mischaracterizes my argument and some of it makes no sense at all. He begins by observing,...
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Mars: The Immigrant Experience
wmshc_kiwi/Flickr We live in an age of close migrations. To leave home and country no longer represents a stark severance. Telephones, Skype, and Facetime bring us voices and faces; email and SMS...
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The Cotton-Picking Game: It Takes All Day and You Can't Really Win
There is no shortage of articles about the brutal work that the world's poor do to supply the companies that make consumer products. Occasionally, a horrific tragedy like the factory fire and collapse...
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Smartphone Paradise Lost
GONZALO BAEZA/Flickr I lost my cell phone last week, and immediately went into a pronounced tailspin. In a hurry to make an appointment, I must have left the phone -- an iPhone 5 Black 32GB -- on the...
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How a Restaurant Menu Is Like a Website
Something to nourish ... your website (Shutterstock/vsl) Mario Batali: chef, restaurateur, TV personality, author, neon-orange Crocs-wearer ... and digital strategist? Yep: This afternoon, during a...
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What Professional Chefs Think About Astronaut Coffee
So we finally have an answer to that age-old culinary question: What do professional foodies think about ... space coffee? Two celebrity chefs -- David Chang of Momofuku and Traci Des Jardins of...
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Watching the Final Sunset Before the 3-Month Antarctic Night
The last sunlight until August (ESA) When the sun dipped below the horizon on Sunday at the Concordia research station in Antarctica, the 15 crew members who live there were ready for a long night --...
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Operation Acoustic Kitty: The CIA's Would-Be Cat Spy
You see, cats are sly and unpredictable. They can slip unnoticed from place to place, watching, listening, wryly judging, surveilling. So, why wouldn't the Central Intelligence Agency stick a...
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What the Obama Campaign's Chief Data Scientist Is Up to Now
By all accounts, Rayid Ghani's data work for President Obama's reelection campaign was brilliant and unprecedented. Ghani probably could have written a ticket to work at any company in the world, or...
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The Philosophy of SimCity: An Interview With the Game's Lead Designer
Screenshot of our own SimCity (called, for reasons that made sense at the time, We Are The Champignons) after three hours of game play. In the nearly quarter-century since designer Will Wright launched...
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How Humans Are Changing the Planet—in 7 Dramatic GIFs
Google today released an "interactive timelapse experience" that allows users to explore millions of satellite images captured over the last quarter-century -- 25 years of immense growth and...
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No 'Sharks With Lasers on Their Heads': What Protects the Internet in the Ocean?
Reuters If you've been following the events in Syria over the past few days, you know the country's Internet is now back from the dead after a 19-hour outage that the government blamed on "terrorist"...
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Finally, a Mathematically Accurate Way to Predict the Behavior of ... Bubbles
The lifespan of a bubble (Robert Saye and James Sethian, UC Berkeley/LBNL via ScienceNow) When you're a kid, and even when you're not, one of the best toys you can ever have is a simple one: a bottle...
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Why Are Egypt's Pyramids Crumbling?
STRUCTUREmag When structural engineer Peter James arrived at the Bent Pyramid, 25 miles southeast of Cairo, his task was to secure the structure's remaining "cladding" -- its smooth exterior envelope....
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Mystery Solved? A New Theory About Why Egypt Stopped Building Pyramids
STRUCTUREmag When structural engineer Peter James arrived at the Bent Pyramid, 25 miles southeast of Cairo, his task was to secure the structure's remaining "cladding" -- its smooth exterior envelope....
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The Hockey Stick: The Most Controversial Chart in Science, Explained
IPCC Third Assessment Report/Wikipedia Back in 1998, a little known climate scientist named Michael Mann and two colleagues published a paper that sought to reconstruct the planet's past temperatures...
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