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Is This Virtual Worm the First Sign of the Singularity?
Real C. elegans worms squirming in a laboratory agar plate. The have been genetically modified to express fluorescent proteins (Jesper Pedersen). For all the talk of artificial intelligence and all the...
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2,060 Minutes: Gordo Cooper and the Last American Solo Flight in Space
Pre-Hadfieldian! A picture captured by Gordo Cooper aboard Faith 7 (NASA) Imagine being alone, in space. Just you and your shiny spacesuit and your tiny metal capsule, the world splayed beneath you in...
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The Time Exxon Went Into the Semiconductor Business (and Failed)
Computer History Museum Zilog was founded by Intel veterans Federico Faggins and Ralph Ungermann in 1974. Their first microprocessor, the Z80, was a hit. Intel's products, the company's Dave House...
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It's Artificial Afghanistan: A Simulated Battlefield in the Mojave Desert
Fort Irwin is a U.S. army base nearly the size of Rhode Island, located in the Mojave Desert about an hour's drive northeast of Barstow, California. There you will find the National Training Center,...
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NASA Records an Explosion on the Moon So Bright You Could Have Seen It With...
Since 2005, a team at NASA has been monitoring meteoroid explosions on the surface of the moon. In March, they announced yesterday, they observed an explosion so bright it would have been visible from...
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Will 'Digital Ethnic Cleansing' Be Part of the Internet's Future?
It's easy to assume that a global Internet, with all its promise of scaled communication and education and democratization, will eventually help to foster democracy. But it's also not entirely...
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Chart: Where Yahoo's Tumblr Ranks Next to Twitter, Instagram, and Pinterest
Yahoo announced they will acquire Tumblr for $1.1 billion this afternoon. The news comes about a year after Facebook snatched up the hot startup Instagram. In a post-Facebook world, that leaves two...
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Can You Really Buy 'Cool'?
Yahoo welcomes Tumblr to the team with ... a gif. (marissamayr.tumblr.com) A million dollars isn't cool. You know what's cool? A billion dollars.This is a line from a Hollywood movie that is so...
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Google Zombie: The Glass Wearers of Tomorrow
Nick Bilton/The New York Times Since the unveiling of Google Glass, the tech giant's new wearable computing device, a common nickname for its wearers has arisen among skeptics and critics: Glassholes....
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Quiz: GeoCities or Tumblr?
GeoCities, long -- but not that long -- under construction (via The Guardian) Remember GeoCities? The quirky, city-themed web hosting service and early social network that, by 1999, was the...
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'On Average, Humanity Has Built One Large Dam Every Day for the Last 130 Years'
China's Three Gorges Dam as seen from space over the past three decades (Google/Philip Bump) When we think about the dams that are reshaping our planet and its waterways, the projects that come to mind...
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NASA's 19-Gigapixel Filmstrip of the Earth from Russia to South Africa
NASA's Landsat satellites have been snapping pictures of the Earth from orbit since 1972. The most recent iteration of the project, the Landsat Data Continuity Mission, arrived at its orbital resting...
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The (Slow, Tentative) Greening of the GOP
Kevin McCarthy (AP) Each January, when Congress gavels a new session to order, the party in charge rolls out a series of bills laying out its political agenda -- and often they're predictable...
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Tornadoes in America: The Oklahoma Disaster in Context
Action News 5 - Memphis, Tennessee A massive and powerful tornado hit Moore, Oklahoma this afternoon, causing widespread destruction, including at least 51 deaths. It's the deadliest tornado since...
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The National Weather Service's Last Pre-Tornado Briefing Warned About School...
Yesterday, the National Weather Service's Rick Smith posted a briefing to YouTube at 11:30am, which laid out a scenario for the day's weather events that was eerily precise. Specifically, he mentioned...
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Why Does It Seem Like Small Towns Always Get the Worst of Tornado Season?
Omaha, Nebraska, following a major tornado on Easter Sunday in 1913 (Wikimedia Commons) Why is it that small towns seem to suffer the brunt of tornado destruction while big cities -- even those located...
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The Moore Tornado, as Seen From Space
A camera on board NASA's Aqua spacecraft captured Oklahoma from more than 400 miles up at 2:40 pm local time yesterday, the same time the tornado warnings went out. Sixteen minutes later, the tornado...
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Why Aren't There More Storm Cellars in Oklahoma?
A tornadic thunderstorm approaches South Haven, Kansas on May 19, 2013. (Reuters) "You had to be underground," The Weather Channel's Mike Bettes put it, "in order to survive this tornado." He was not...
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Felted Atomic Weapons: Most Incongruous Medium/Content Pairing Ever?
Fat Man atomic bomb sculpture (Nifer Kilakila/Flickr) Felt artist Nifer Kilakila has come up with the world's most incongruous medium/content pairing: felted atomic weapons. Also: felted guns, felted...
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These Artists Are Mapping the Earth ... With Facial Recognition Software
Angry man with jet-black hair and protruding chin (Onformative) Have you ever looked up into the sky and seen a cloud that vaguely resembles your mother? Or gazed at the twisted trunk of a tree, only...
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