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An Interactive Map of the Tornado Devastation in Moore, Oklahoma
Reuters Last month's Moore, Oklahoma tornado caused severe damage in many portions of the city. Whole blocks were wiped out, as can be seen in this swipeable, before-and-after map created by the...
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Augmented-Reality Game Brings a Story of Jewish Labor Organizers Back to Life
There is a feeling you get when you stand on, say, the ground at Gettysburg or the steps of the Lincoln Monument and you know that something momentous, a piece of history, occurred right on that part...
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Domino's, the Pizza That Never Sleeps
Speaking as a New Yorker, I have a confession. It's big. Even though I once attended a reading by Colin "Slice Harvester" Hagendorf, the guy who spent a year trying every slice of pizza in New York...
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Sean Parker Responds to Redwoods Wedding Criticism, and His Defense Is...
Earlier this week, I wrote about a report that the California Coastal Commission released about its interactions with Sean Parker over his wedding in a Redwood grove in Big Sur. From the language and...
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More Than 90% of Adult Americans Have Cell Phones
Just a quick note for your next PowerPoint deck on megatrends: more than 90 percent of adults now have a cell phone, according to the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project. For...
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Bombshell Report: NSA and FBI 'Tapping Directly' Into Tech Companies' Servers
The first slide of the PowerPoint deck on which the Post's report is based (Washington Post). Following in the wake of The Guardian's revelation that the National Security Agency had compelled at least...
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Government Phone Surveillance for Dummies
A gaggle of cell towers (Shutterstock/Serhat Akavci) First things first: What's all the fuss about? The discovery and publication of a top-secret court order, issued this April, compelling Verizon to...
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Government Surveillance: The Essential Reading List
U.S. National Intelligence Director John Negroponte walks past a video screen during a visit by U.S. President George W. Bush at the National Security Agency at Fort Meade, Maryland, January 25, 2006....
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Security-State Creep: The Real NSA Scandal Is What's Legal
"We doubt," the Supreme Court held, "that people in general entertain any actual expectation of privacy in the numbers they dial." And even if they did, the opinion continued, such an expectation would...
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7 Unanswered Questions About PRISM (Such As, How Could It Only Cost $20...
Yesterday, the Washington Post and The Guardian reported about the existence of a previously secret NSA/FBI program called PRISM. Working largely from a classified PowerPoint, the stories described a...
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More From the 'Leaked Document' File: Obama's Cyber-Attack Directive
Shutterstock/bluehand If "Things We're Learning About the Security Workings of the U.S. Government" were a late-night infomercial, today would be the point in the proceedings when the giddy announcer...
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Land Unseen: What's Beneath Antarctica's Ice?
Many of us tend to think of Antarctica as a sheet of solid snow and ice. But, in contrast with its peer to the north, the southern pole's ice sheet lies atop a rocky continent. What are its features,...
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Could This Be How PRISM Technically Works?
National security reporter Marc Ambinder, who has long been known for his contacts within the intelligence community (he used to work here at The Atlantic), just tweeted what seems like a plausible...
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Does Math Exist?
Millions of high-school students might wish math did not exist, but, alas, it does, at least as a human creation. The question, however, of whether math exists independent of humans is a much deeper...
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What If China Hacks the NSA's Massive Data Trove?
ReutersBradley Manning proved that massive amounts of the government's most secret data was vulnerable to being dumped on the open Internet. A single individual achieved that unprecedented leak....
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Meet 'Boundless Informant,' the NSA's Secret Tool for Tracking Global...
Screenshot of NSA slidedeck obtained by The Guardian What does the NSA know, and how does it know it? Just one of the many, many questions that has emerged again, and that has remained largely...
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Skinner Marketing: We're the Rats, and Facebook Likes Are the Reward
Alexis C. Madrigal One of the most popular announcements at Google's recent developers conference was the new version of Google Maps, which has a lot of spiffy new bells and whistles, to be sure. But...
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This Guy Reinvented the Wheel ... by Turning It Into a Cube
The SharkWheel in action (Kickstarter) What's better at being a wheel than ... a wheel? That is not a rhetorical question or a Zen kōan or the start to an awesome joke (sorry). Inventor David Patrick,...
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Petitioners Challenge Obama to 'Live, Public Debate With Edward Snowden'
A screenshot of the petition that just went live on the White House's "We the People" site (whitehouse.gov) In September 2011, the White House launched a new initiative: We the People, a digital...
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Stamen Design Reveals an Instagram for Maps
Oakland and its parks. The last few years have seen an explosion in photo editing. In a pre-digital era, changing the tone and feel of your photographs was for professionals. Photoshop made it easy,...
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