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How to Not Be a Jerk When It's Raining
No jerkiness here! Hospitality Umbrellas employees want to make rain a friendlier affair. (Rainshader) Umbrellas -- like rain itself, like a two-lane highway, like a four-piece pizza at a table for...
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How to Fight Revenge Porn
Titian/Rebecca J. Rosen Victims of non-consensual pornography, sometimes called "revenge porn," often receive little help from the law. Many who to try to fight the malicious and unconsented sharing of...
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A Grim Milestone for the Planet
Philip Bump Over the last couple weeks, scientists and environmentalists have been keeping a particularly close eye on the Hawaii-based monitoring station that tracks how much carbon dioxide is in the...
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So This Is How It Begins: Guy Refuses to Stop Drone-Spying on Seattle Woman
Alexis C. Madrigal Back in October, Alexis wrote a piece asking what rights do we have with regard to the air above our property. Walk onto someone's lawn and you're trespassing; fly over it in a...
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How Humans Have Seen the World, Through Data
"The history of visualizing data," Edward Tufte says, "is very substantially a history of science." As we develop new ways to observe the world, we develop new ways, as well, to render it -- to...
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It Doesn't Matter If We Never Run Out of Oil: We Won't Want to Burn It Anymore
A man in Germany examines the solar panels on his roof, making power he can resell at an excellent financial return. Germany recently installed more solar cells in a single month than the United...
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These Friendly Robots Would Like to Mix You a Cocktail
At this point there are few fields that haven't been transformed, somehow, by digital technologies. Whether it's dairy production or ramen-making, innovations in production and analysis have shaken,...
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Space Is Now a Reality TV Show
Chris Hadfield experiments with water drops in microgravity, January 2013. (CSA/NASA) "Why are people so fascinated with @Cmdr_Hadfield?" the tweeter asked. "Can someone enlighten me?" The answers...
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No, Really: We're Going to Keep Burning Oil—and Lots of It
Reuters I am grateful that Amory B. Lovins devoted so much attention to my piece, but I'm afraid I'm going to have to stand my ground. As I understand him, Lovins makes five main critiques: 1) My...
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Not a Metaphor: A Whole New Way to Watch a Caterpillar Become a Butterfly
A painted lady butterfly, in adult form (Shutterstock/Gary L. Brewer) The caterpillar-into-butterfly evolution is nature at its most literary. Egg, to larva, to pupa, to rainbow-winged adult -- a...
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Are These the First Ever Pictures of Honduras's Lost Ciudad Blanca?
Is the fabled lost city of Honduras hiding beneath the dense jungle canopy? (UTL Productions, LLC) The Mosquitia rain forests of Honduras and Nicaragua are, to put it mildly, thick jungle. As one...
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Martha Stewart and the Cannibal Polar Bears: A True Story
A polar bear walks down the drain at a hotel in Chuchill, Manitoba (Jon Mooallem) During the Cold War, a joint U.S.-Canadian military installation was built outside the tiny northern town of Churchill,...
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Paul Otellini's Intel: Can the Company That Built the Future Survive It?
Paul Otellini shows off the chip-circuitry lining of the coat hanging in his Intel cubicle as an iconic bunny man keeps watch (Alexis Madrigal). Forty-five years after Intel was founded by Silicon...
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The Art of Facebook
Ben Barry Facebook is, it goes without saying, a digital company. But tucked into its Menlo Park headquarters, is something called the Analog Research Laboratory, founded by a devout hands-on,...
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Intel CEO Paul Otellini Draws the 'History of the Computer Industry' in 1 Chart
As I wrapped up the last interview with Intel's outgoing CEO, Paul Otellini, for my feature on his legacy, he strode over to the whiteboard in the conference room. As he began to draw, he joked that...
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When Romeo Is a Robot
Nikolas Schmid-Pfähler and Carolin Liebl via Co.Exist Meet Vincent and Emily. Theirs is a love story for the ages. They were made for each other. They were, you could say, destined for each other....
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Why the New Google Maps Is the Most Honest Form of Cartography
AP/Jeff Chiu At its annual developer conference yesterday, Google announced a complete overhaul of its maps. Among other things, changes include a cleaner interface, integrated Google Earth, and maps...
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The Team That Summited Everest Dosed Two Sherpas With Amphetamines
Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay (Wikimedia Commons) Nearly sixty years ago -- on May 29, 1953 -- Edmund Hillary and his Nepalese mountaineer, Tenzing Norgay, became the first humans that we...
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A Robot Just Broke the Human Record for Miles Driven in Space
Driving on the moon, 1972 (NASA) In December of 1972, the Apollo 17 astronauts Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt got to do something awesome: They took a joyride on the moon. A long one. The pair...
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The Uncanny Face Model They Made With Richard III's Skull
Philippa Langley, originator of the Looking for Richard III project, with a 3D-printed model of Richard III (Gareth Fuller/PA via The Guardian) Let's say, just hypothetically, that you have exhumed...
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